WQVN (1360 kHz) is a

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and serving

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. It is owned by Nelson Voltaire, with the license held by Radio Piment Bouk. Programming is in the French Creole language, and is targeted at listeners from

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. By day, WQVN is powered at 9,300

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s non-directional. But at night, to reduce interference to other stations on

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, it reduces power to 400 watts. The

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is on NE 71st Street in

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. Programming is also heard on 250-watt

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W272DS at 102.3 MHz.

History

WKAT was first licensed by the FCC on December 3, 1937 to operate on 1500 kHz, transmitting from North Bay Road in Miami Beach. The original licensee was Miami Beach mayor A. Frank Katzentine. The frequency was moved to 1330 kHz in 1940, and the current 1360 kHz on the "Radio Moving Day" on March 29, 1941. In the 1940s, singer-songwriter

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worked at the station while in semi-retirement when the station had a popular music format. WKAT spent the 1960s and 1970s as a Miami Beach-based local talk station. Prior to 2005, WKAT had been South Florida's last remaining classical music station. The

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format began in 2005 with a lineup that resembled other outlets owned by

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, 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 defunct franchise in the

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, later joining the

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, as the

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. WKAT next began airing Salem Communications' "Radio Luz" Spanish-language Christian format, which also airs on sister station WWDJ 1150 in Boston. On December 11, 2017,

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sold WKAT to Miami-Haitian broadcaster and activist Nelson Voltaire, known under his on-air name “Piman Bouk.” The station switched to Haitian language programming under an LMA in January 2018. Salem retained the Radio Luz format and iconic Miami “WKAT” callsign and moved them to sister station

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. The station on 1360 AM concurrently changed its call sign to the current WQVN.

Larry King

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's early radio career was spent at WKAT, where he hosted a morning show at Pumpernik's restaurant on Miami Beach, interviewing entertainers working in Miami, including

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and

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Neil Rogers

For two years, WKAT 1360 AM was the South Florida home for talk radio host

Neil Rogers Neil Rogers (November 5, 1942December 24, 2010) was an American talk radio personality. Until his retirement on June 22, 2009, ''The Neil Rogers Show'' aired weekdays from 10am-2pm on WQAM-AM, 560 WQAM. It was consistently the top-rated show ...

, who debuted on the station in March 1976 in the 3 to 6 PM afternoon drive shift and left in 1978.

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