WAXY

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WAXY
City of license	South Miami, Florida
Broadcast area	Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Branding	Sports Talk 790, The Ticket
Frequency	790 (kHz)
Format	Sports/Talk
Power	25,000 watts
Class	B
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio Westwood One Florida Panthers Florida Marlins
Owner	Lincoln Financial Media
Website	[www.790theticket.com]

WAXY-AM is an AM radio station licensed in South Miami, Florida broadcasting on 790 kHz with a sports talk format. The station is owned by Lincoln Financial Media, which was previously known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications.

[edit] History

[edit] WFUN

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. In the late 1950s, the station migrated down to 790, and went full-time. The 790 dial position was a moderately directional signal, as there was already a 790 in Havana, Cuba, and another in central Florida (Leesburg-Eustis). Despite coverage limitations, especially to the southwest (in the Florida Keys, 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-100, and the field of top 40 stations (including WQAM and even WINZ 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 Boss Radio broadcasting sound of Swinging Radio England from the coast of southern England during 1966. For a short time in 1965 Morton 'Doc' Downey 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 Atlantic in 1966. They included Ron 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 pirate radio station Swinging Radio England between May and November 1966.

[edit] After WFUN

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 on November 28, 1990. The WAXY callsign was re-birthed after a short time off the air. It was originally on the FM dial at 105.9FM. It became WAXY-AM on October 12, 1994, initially with a format of brokered programs.

[edit] Current format

Since 2004, it has been an all-sports station. At one point, this station was branded as "ESPN Radio 790", but it no longer carries ESPN Radio programs. It does carry the Sporting News Radio shows of Todd Wright and David Stein.

Other than that, the weekday lineup is all-local, with such hosts as Sid Rosenberg (5:30am-10am), Kevin Rogers (10am-12pm), Jorge Sedano (12pm-3pm), Miami Herald sportswriter Dan LeBatard (3pm-7pm), The Zaslow Show (7pm-10pm), and the Dos Amigos Show with Larry Milian and Alan Strauss (10pm-12am) during the week. Jonathan Zaslow, Steve Goldstein (Panthers TV PxP voice), Israel Guttierrez (Miami Herald), Armando Salguero (Miami Herald), Craig Mish, Josh Friedman and Ed Berliner are permanent fixtures on the weekends.

It also broadcasted Super Bowl XLI from Westwood One. Formerly the flagship station of the Miami Dolphins alongside Majic 102.7 in 2005 and Big 105.9 in 2006.

The station is now the flagship station for the Florida Panthers and the Florida Marlins after both teams were not renewed by WQAM-AM at the request of the Miami Dolphins^[1].

[edit] On-Air Schedule

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[edit] External links

• WAXY-AM Web Site
• Sports Talk 790 The Ticket Web Site

1. ^ The Marlins Ballpark News: WQAM to dump the Marlins

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WAXY