City Miami, Florida Slogan "Radio Luz" Format Spanish Cristiana/Talk | Branding 1360 WKAT Frequency 1360 kHz | |
Broadcast area South Florida metropolitan area | ||
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. However, WKAT had spent the 1960s and 1970s as a Miami Beach-based local talk station. Before that, WKAT had a popular music format. In the 1940s, singer-songwriter Arthur Fields worked there while in semi-retirement.
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.
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.