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WQBA (1140 AM) is a
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broadcasting a
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format. Licensed to
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, United States, the station is currently owned by
Uforia Audio Network Uforia Audio Network () is the radio broadcasting and music events division of TelevisaUnivision USA. Formerly known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation and Univision Radio, it is the eighth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States, and ...
with programming from
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. Previous call letters were WMIE, owned by Susquehanna Broadcasting. In 1976, ''
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frequency on which
XEMR-AM XEMR-AM (1140 kHz) is a Mexican clear-channel station. It is licensed to Apodaca, Nuevo León, part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. Organizacion Mexicana de Radio, S.A. de C.V., holds the concession. XEMR is operated by Grupo Radio Alegr ...
in
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and WRVA in
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are the Class A stations. WQBA must reduce power and use a highly directional
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during nighttime hours in order to prevent interference to the
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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 TUDN Radio (formerly Univision Deportes Radio) is a U.S. Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Uforia Audio Network, a division of TelevisaUnivision. It launched on March 15, 2017 on ten AM and FM radio stations, most of which previo ...
, their new Spanish-language sports network launched in April 2017. On June 3, 2022, Univision announced it would sell a package of 18 radio stations across 10 of its markets, primarily AM outlets in large cities (including WAQI and WQBA) and entire clusters in smaller markets such as
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, and
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, for $60 million to a new company known as Latino Media Network (LMN); Univision proposes to handle operations for a year under agreement before turning over operational control to LMN in the fourth quarter of 2023.


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1140 WQBA's website

FCC History Cards for WQBA
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