WKAT

WKAT
City Miami, Florida
Broadcast area South Florida metropolitan area
Branding 1360 WKAT
Slogan "Radio Luz"
Frequency 1360 kHz
Format Spanish Cristiana/Talk
Power 5,000 Watts (Daytime)
1,000 Watts (Nighttime)
Class B
Owner Salem Media Group
(Caron Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations WHIM, WZAB, WOCN
Webcast Listen Live!
Website 1360wkat.com

WKAT 1360 is a Spanish talk radio station based in the South Florida area of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

The previous format was conservative talk radio with a lineup that resembled other outlets owned by Salem Communications: Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage, and William Bennett among others. And like the other stations, its tagline was "Where Your Opinion Counts."

In 2005-06, WKAT was the radio station that carried games of the Florida Pit Bulls, a franchise in the American Basketball Association owned in part by NBA all-star Tim Hardaway. However, the franchise is now suspended pending a move to the Continental Basketball Association, where it will be known as the Miami Majesty.

Before WKAT became a talk radio station in 2005, it had been South Florida′s last remaining classical music station.[1] However, WKAT had spent the 1960s and 1970s as a Miami Beach-based local talk station.[1] Before that, WKAT had a popular music format. In the 1940s, singer-songwriter Arthur Fields worked there while in semi-retirement.[2]

Today WKAT airs Salem Communications' "Radio Luz" Spanish-language Christian format, which also appears on sister station WWDJ-AM 1150 in Boston.

WKAT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a different transmitter site, increase day power to 9,300 watts and decrease night power to 400 watts.[3]

They have also applied to relocate and upgrade FM translator W267BW from Sebring to Miami which will give them an FM signal throughout central Miami-Dade county.

References

  1. 1 2 Citron, David H. (3 February 2005). "WKAT is now Conservative Talk". South Florida Radio Pages. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  2. Gracyk, Tim. "Arthur Fields". Tim's Phonographs and Old Records. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  3. "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

Coordinates: 25°57′36″N 80°16′13″W / 25.96000°N 80.27028°W / 25.96000; -80.27028

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