WKAT (AM)

WKAT (1450 AM, "Radio Vida") is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish-language Christian radio format, known as "Radio Vida." Licensed to Miami, Florida, the station is owned by the Salem Media Group, through licensee Salem Communications Holding Corporation.
WKAT broadcasts at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is off NE 71st Street in Miami. Programming is also heard on FM translator W270CV at 101.9 MHz, with its tower on SE 2nd Street at Biscayne Boulevard.
History.
In 1947, the station first signed on the air. Its original [[call sign]] was WWPB and it was powered at only 250 watts. The call letters were chosen to represent its owner and general manager, Paul Brake. The following year, Brake put an FM station on the air, 101.5 WWPB-FM (today [[WLYF]]). 
[[File:WOCN logo.png|thumb|left|100px|WOCN logo through June 2008]] Around 2000, the station, known as WOCN, switched to [[Spanish-language]] programming. It was branded as "WOCN Radio 1450," broadcasting a [[talk radio]] format. It was a [[brokered programming]] station which sold its time to hosts who then sold their own advertisements to support their shows. The station was known in the [[Cuban-American]] community for its leftist commentators. It later switched to a [[sports radio]] format, using programming from the [[ESPN Deportes]] network. 
Its call sign was changed to WKAT on September 16, 2019. The WKAT call letters were popular in Miami for many years on [[1360 AM]], which was a long-time English-language talk station that had been an early stopping point for broadcaster [[Larry King]] and others. That station is now [[WQVN]], broadcasting to the [[Haiti]]an community.
[[File:WOCN radiomiami1450 logo.png|thumb|right|100px|WOCN logo until 2019]]
External links.
[[Category:Cuban-American culture in Miami]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Miami|KAT (AM)]]
[[Category:Spanish-language radio stations in Florida|KAT (AM)]]
[[Category:Salem Media Group properties]]
[[Category:1948 establishments in Florida]]
[[Category:Radio stations established in 1948]]