WAXY (790
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, "The Ticket") is a
radio stationRadio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both...
licensed in
South Miami, FloridaSouth Miami is a Miami suburban city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 10,741 at the 2000 census and as of 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,769.-History:...
broadcasting on 790 kHz with a sports talk format. The station is owned by
Lincoln Financial MediaLincoln Financial Media is a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owns radio stations in the United States.-Atlanta, Georgia:*WQXI - Sports*WSTR - Top 40-Miami, Florida:*WAXY - Sports...
, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications. The callsign was formerly used on FM at 105.9 until Jefferson-Pilot acquired the callsign due to their competing station
WMXJWMXJ is an oldies music formatted radio station that broadcasts from Miami Gardens, Florida. The station is owned by Lincoln Financial Media, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications.-History:...
Majic 102.7 having the same format, Oldies. 105.9 FM is now
WBGG-FMWBGG-FM is Big 105.9 in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale radio market. The station plays classic rock.It is licensed for HD Radio and planned to commence HD Radio broadcasts in April, 2006.- History :...
and owned by Clear Channel with a Classic Rock format.
This station was once
WFUN-AM, a legendary Top 40 station that competed with WQAM.
WAXY (790
AMAM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation.-History:AM was the dominant method of broadcasting during the first eighty years of the 20th century and remains widely used into the 21st....
, "The Ticket") is a
radio stationRadio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both...
licensed in
South Miami, FloridaSouth Miami is a Miami suburban city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 10,741 at the 2000 census and as of 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,769.-History:...
broadcasting on 790 kHz with a sports talk format. The station is owned by
Lincoln Financial MediaLincoln Financial Media is a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owns radio stations in the United States.-Atlanta, Georgia:*WQXI - Sports*WSTR - Top 40-Miami, Florida:*WAXY - Sports...
, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications. The callsign was formerly used on FM at 105.9 until Jefferson-Pilot acquired the callsign due to their competing station
WMXJWMXJ is an oldies music formatted radio station that broadcasts from Miami Gardens, Florida. The station is owned by Lincoln Financial Media, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications.-History:...
Majic 102.7 having the same format, Oldies. 105.9 FM is now
WBGG-FMWBGG-FM is Big 105.9 in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale radio market. The station plays classic rock.It is licensed for HD Radio and planned to commence HD Radio broadcasts in April, 2006.- History :...
and owned by Clear Channel with a Classic Rock format.
History
This station was once
WFUN-AM, a legendary Top 40 station that competed with WQAM. Originally, the station was located at 800 on the AM dial, and was a daytime-only operation. While on 800 it was licensed to Miami Beach and was the first station in the area to hold the
WMBMWMBM is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. Licensed to Miami Beach, Florida, USA, the station serves the Miami area. The station is currently owned by New Birth Broadcasting Corp. Inc. and features programing from Westwood One.-History:...
call letters, now on 1490 kHz. In the early 1960s, the station migrated down to 790, and went full-time as
WFUN. The 790 dial position was a moderately directional signal, as there was already a 790 in Havana, Cuba, and another in central Florida (
LeesburgLeesburg is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 15,956 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 19,086.
. Leesburg is located in central Florida, between Lake Harris and Lake Griffin, at the head of the Oklawaha...
-
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). Despite coverage limitations, especially to the southwest (in the
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, toward Havana), WFUN competed vigorously with WQAM throughout the '60s, and even won some of the ratings sweeps. During the early '70s, pop music showed up first on FM at WMYQ, and then on
Y-100WHYI-FM, better known as Y-100, is a heritage FM Top 40 CHR station that broadcasts at 100.7 MHz. Its official city of license is Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Y-100 broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts from its 1,005 foot transmitter, which is located on the Miami-Dade side of...
, and the field of top 40 stations (including WQAM and even
WINZWINZ, AM 940 The Sports Animal is a sports talk radio station that serves Miami-Fort Lauderdale. The stations airs primarily syndicated programming. It daytime signal reaches as far north as Ft. Pierce and as far west as Ft. Myers and Naples. The station has managed to score ratings in the Ft...
for a brief time) became crowded; ultimately many listeners moved to FM for music, and consequently WFUN abandoned their top 40 format. WFUN was used by one of its disc jockeys to create the revolutionary and hybrid
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broadcasting sound of
Swinging Radio EnglandSwinging Radio England was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May to 13 November 1966 from a ship in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. While the station was dubbed a pirate radio station, its...
from the coast of southern
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during 1966. For a short time in 1965
Morton 'Doc' DowneyMorton Downey, Jr. was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format.-Career:...
was a DJ on this Miami legend station.
WFUN was the home of several D.J.s who became famous on both sides of the
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in 1966. They included
Ron O'QuinnRon O'Quinn is an American radio disc jockey born March 4, 1943 in McRae, Georgia.At the age of 16, O'Quinn began his radio career at WMGA, a station in his hometown of Moultrie, Georgia, where he worked at the time of his graduation from Moultrie High School in 1961. Shortly thereafter, O'Quinn...
and Larry Dean. The format of WFUN in Miami was used in part by Ron O'Quinn as the foundation for the hybrid mix of sounds that were heard over the 50,000 watts offshore
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station
Swinging Radio EnglandSwinging Radio England was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May to 13 November 1966 from a ship in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. While the station was dubbed a pirate radio station, its...
between May and November 1966.
The station subsequently became
WNWS-AM with a news/talk format. Popular talk show host Tom Leykis was heard in the early 1980's. It changed back to music and became
WMRZ-AM ("790 Memories") on November 28, 1990, running "AM Only", a Satellite-based
Adult StandardsAdult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.Adult standards is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly those persons over 50 years of age, but it is mostly targeted for senior citizens...
format from the Unistar radio network (now
America's Best MusicAmerica's Best Music is the on-air branding of an adult standards 24-hour radio network, known internally as Adult Standards and formerly known as AM Only, currently owned by Dial Global. It was one of the original Westwood One's Transtar networks...
from
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). WMRZ switched to a schedule of brokered programming in late 1993, and became WAXY-AM on October 12, 1994 after the original WAXY on FM abandoned those call letters.
Current format
Since 2004, WAXY has been an all-sports station. At one point, the station was branded as "
ESPN RadioESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
790", but it no longer carries ESPN Radio programs. It does carry the
Sporting News RadioSporting News Radio is a United States sports radio network that broadcasts sports news, talk, scores, and highlights 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Sporting News Radio can be found on AM & FM radio stations across the country and Sirius Satellite Radio...
shows of
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and
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. It also previously carried
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between the ESPN and SNR affiliations.
Other than that, the weekday lineup is mainly local, with such hosts as
Jonathan ZaslowJonathan Bradley Zaslow is an American sports radio show host in South Florida. "Zaz" currently hosts the "Zaslow Show" on 790 The Ticket from 10am-Noon. Zaz was raised in North Miami Beach, Florida where he attended Sabal Palm Elementary School and was a classmate of James Jones of the Miami Heat...
(middays),
Jorge SedanoAmerican Sports Broadcaster and Talk Show Host Jorge Sedano is the host of The Jorge Sedano Show on 790 The Ticket which airs from 6am-10am ET...
(middays),
Miami Herald sportswriter Dan LeBatard (afternoons), and the Tony Bruno Show (late night). Zaslow, Israel Guttierrez (Miami Herald), Armando Salguero (Miami Herald), Craig Mish, Josh Friedman, and Alex Donno are permanent fixtures on the weekends.
On May 5, 2009 Dan LeBatard reported on his show on 790 the Ticket (WAXY-AM) that
Krystal FernandezKrystal Fernandez is an American sports journalist. She joined Fox Sports Radio in March 2004 as the morning update anchor and also serves as a sports/feature reporter for KTTV/Fox 11 TV in Los Angeles...
will join
Jorge SedanoAmerican Sports Broadcaster and Talk Show Host Jorge Sedano is the host of The Jorge Sedano Show on 790 The Ticket which airs from 6am-10am ET...
as the new host of 790's morning show.
It also broadcast
Super Bowl XLISuper Bowl XLI was an American football game that featured the American Football Conference champion Indianapolis Colts and the National Football Conference champion Chicago Bears to decide the National Football League champion for the 2006 season...
from
Westwood OneWestwood One is an American radio network. It is based in New York City, and it was previously managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation. The company is now owned by the private-equity firm The Gores Group and describes itself as "platform agnostic" but still focuses mostly on radio as...
. It was formerly the flagship station of the
Miami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a professional football team based in the Miami, Florida metropolitan area. They play home games at Land Shark Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens. They are headquartered at the Miami Dolphins Training Facility in Davie, Florida. The Dolphins belong to the Eastern...
along with
Majic 102.7WMXJ is an oldies music formatted radio station that broadcasts from Miami Gardens, Florida. The station is owned by Lincoln Financial Media, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications.-History:...
in 2005 and
Big 105.9WBGG-FM is Big 105.9 in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale radio market. The station plays classic rock.It is licensed for HD Radio and planned to commence HD Radio broadcasts in April, 2006.- History :...
in 2006.
The station is now the
flagship station for the
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and the
Florida MarlinsThe Florida Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise, the Marlins are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
after both teams were not renewed by WQAM-AM at the request of the
Miami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a professional football team based in the Miami, Florida metropolitan area. They play home games at Land Shark Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens. They are headquartered at the Miami Dolphins Training Facility in Davie, Florida. The Dolphins belong to the Eastern...
. If the Marlins and Panthers are both playing simultaneously, the Marlins will air on 790 The Ticket and the Panthers will move to
WFTL 640 Fox SportsWMEN is a sports talk radio station in Florida. The station currently carries many programs from Sporting News Radio. Up until April of 2009, WMEN was a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, but lost the affiliation to WINZ. WMEN also carries FAU and FSU football and basketball games. Local shows include...
.
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