WQBA
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City | Miami, Florida |
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Branding | Univision America 1140 Miami |
Slogan | "La Voz de Miami" |
Frequency | 1140 kHz |
First air date | 1952 (as WMIE) |
Format | Spanish Talk |
Power |
50,000 watts day 10,000 watts night |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 73912 |
Transmitter coordinates | 25°46′3.00″N 80°29′10.00″W / 25.7675000°N 80.4861111°W |
Callsign meaning | QBA = Cuba |
Former callsigns |
WMIE (1948-1968) WQBA (1968-present) |
Affiliations | Univision America |
Owner |
Univision Communications (Univision Radio Illinois, Inc.) |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website |
www |
WQBA (1140 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish talk format. Licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, the station is currently owned by Univision Communications. Previous call letters were WMIE, owned by Susquehanna Broadcasting.
1140 AM is a United States and Mexican clear-channel frequency on which XEMR-AM in Apodaca, Nuevo León and WRVA in Richmond, Virginia are the Class A stations. WQBA must reduce power and use a highly directional array during nighttime hours in order to prevent interference to the skywave signals of the Class A stations.
On December 20, 2016, Univision announced that WQBA would be one of the charter affiliates of Univision Deportes Radio, their new Spanish-language sports network launched in April 2017.[1]
References
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WQBA
- Radio-Locator Information on WQBA
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WQBA
- FCC History Cards for WQBA