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| Broadcast area | Greater Miami |
| Frequency | 1320kHz |
| Branding | WLQY 1320 am |
| Programming | |
| Format | Haitian Creole |
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| History | |
First air date | August 7, 1953 (1953-08-07) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Lucky" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 23609 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 26°1′53.00″N80°16′42.00″W / 26.0313889°N 80.2783333°W /26.0313889; -80.2783333 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | WLQYradio.com |
WLQY (1320kHz) is acommercialAMradio stationlicensed toHollywood, Florida, and servingGreater Miami. The station has aHaitian Creole music and informationradio format and is owned byEntravision Holdings, LLC.[2] Thestudios and offices are on NE 125th Street inNorth Miami.[3]
WLQY broadcasts with 5,000watts, using adirectional antenna at all times. By day it employs a two-tower array and at night a four-tower array is used. Thetransmitter is off Sheridan Street in Hollywood.[4]
The station signed-on the air as WHWD on August 7, 1953.[5]
"The Million Dollar Sound of WGMA" began in the mid-1960s as amiddle of the road station. It was adaytimer, required to go off the air at night, and broadcast with only 1,000 watts. Artists includedFrank Sinatra,Nat King Cole,Barbra Streisand andDean Martin.
It later switched tocountry music as WGMA "The Country Giant." The power was boosted to 5,000 watts around the clock, using a four-tower directional pattern, day and night. SeeHistory of WGMA The Country Giant, 1967-79 WGMA was located at the Hollywood Federal building on Washington Street and 441, and the transmitter was at 9881 Sheridan Street.
Singles-only station WADY "The Lady", went on the air on March 1, 1980. On July 1, 1980, the station changed itscall sign to the current WLQY.[6]
WLQY, first known as "Lucky 13", used thesyndicated "Music Of Your Life"adult standards format.
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