WQVN

WQVN
City Miami, Florida
Broadcast area South Florida metropolitan area
Slogan "Radio Piment Bouk"
Frequency 1360 kHz
Translator(s) W272DS (102.3 MHz, Miami)
Format Haitian
Language(s) Haitian Creole
Power 5,000 Watts (Daytime)
1,000 Watts (Nighttime)
Class B
Former callsigns WKAT (?-2018)
Owner Nelson Voltaire
(Radio Piment Bouk)
Website

WQVN 1360 is a radio station based in the South Florida area of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Formerly a Spanish talk radio, it now carries a Haitian creole language format.

History

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]

WKAT then began airing 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.[4]

On December 11, 2017, the Tom Taylor Now radio industry newsletter reported the Salem Media Group sold WKAT 1360 AM and the station will flip to Haitian language programming. The station currently operates at 5,000 watts in the day and 1000 watts at night, but will upgrade to 9,300/400 watts. The station’s current FM translator at 101.3 at 10 watts will upgrade with a move to the 102.3 FM frequency at 250 watts. The sale of WKAT was also reported at the radio industry publication Radio Insight.[5]

Salem Communications retained the iconic Miami “WKAT” call letters and transferred them on January 1, 2018 to their other property at 1080 AM, which used the calls WHIM. The “new” 1360 AM changed its call sign to WQVN and will be owned and operated by the highly respected and influential Miami-Haitian broadcaster and activist Nelson Voltaire, known under his on-air name “Piman Bouk.”

Neil Rogers

WKAT 1360 AM was known as the original South Florida home for the long running and highly rated talk show of the beloved Neil Rogers, who debuted on the station in March 1976 in the 3 to 6 PM afternoon drive shift.

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.
  4. ↑ https://fccdata.org/?appid=1765151&facid=90508
  5. ↑ https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121593/station-sales-week-12-8/

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


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