WKAT
| City of license | Miami, Florida |
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| 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 Communications (Classical 1360, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WMCU, WZAB |
| 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 show.[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.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Citron, David H. (3 February 2005). "WKAT is now Conservative Talk". South Florida Radio Pages. http://radiopages.net/radio/talkwkat.html. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ Gracyk, Tim. "Arthur Fields". Tim's Phonographs and Old Records. http://www.gracyk.com/fields.shtml. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
[edit] External links
- Station website
- News/Talk WKAT Flips to Christian Talk (from South Florida Radio History, 1/1/2007)
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WKAT
- Radio-Locator Information on WKAT
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WKAT
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