WQBA
Radio station in Miami
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WQBA (1140 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish soft adult contemporary format. Licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, the station is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it was operated by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network until 2024. It features programming from TUDN Radio. Previous call letters were WMIE, owned by Susquehanna Broadcasting.
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| Broadcast area | Miami metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 1140 kHz |
| Branding | WQBA 1140 AM El Pulso De Miami |
| Programming | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Format | Soft adult contemporary |
| Ownership | |
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| WAQI | |
| History | |
First air date | 1952 (as WMIE) |
Former call signs | WMIE (1948–1968) |
Call sign meaning | Cuba |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73912 |
| Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 25°46′3″N 80°29′10″W |
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| Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
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.
History
In 1976, The Miami Herald stated that the station, which ran a news program presented by Emilio Milián, had the largest audience of any in the Miami metropolitan area.[2]
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.[3]
WQBA was one of eighteen radio stations that TelevisaUnivision sold to Latino Media Network in a $60 million deal announced in June 2022, approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that November,[4] and completed on December 30, 2022.[5] Under the terms of the deal, Univision agreed to continue programming the station for up to one year under a local marketing agreement.[4]
On July 30, 2025, WQBA changed their format from Spanish news/talk to Spanish soft adult contemporary music.[6]
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