WAXY (AM)

WAXY (790 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to South Miami, Florida, with a Spanish adult contemporary and conservative talk format.

Despite coverage limitations, especially to the southwest (in the Florida Keys, toward Havana), WFUN competed vigorously with WQAM throughout the 1960s, and even won some of the ratings sweeps.

Morning man Bruce Bartley later moved to Atlanta at WSB as the voice of the news and later Program Director of WCNN.

[5] WMRZ switched to a schedule of brokered programming in late 1993, and became WAXY on October 12, 1994 (after the original WAXY on FM abandoned that callsign), airing an eclectic mix of shows from investments, sports, radio theater, religion as well as a mixed bag of music shows including hip hop, Cajun/zydeco, oldies and gospel.

[11] The transition of The Ticket to FM would not be realized: shortly after the completion of the sale, WAXY-FM broke away from the simulcast in August 2015, and flipped to alternative rock as 104.3 The Shark.

[13] On August 2, 2019, Entercom announced that WAXY would introduce a new lineup on August 5, assuming WQAM's CBS Sports Radio affiliation and most of its local hosts, and moving ESPN Radio, including The Dan Le Batard Show and the network's overnight and weekend programming, to WQAM (which concurrently rebranded as The Joe).

[15] After having been simulcast in full by both stations since August 2020 due to a realignment of ESPN Radio's schedule,[16] Hochman & Crowder's first hour became exclusive to WQAM.

[15] On September 29, 2022, Americano Media and Audacy agreed to launch the former's Spanish-language conservative talk format similar to Fox News's opinion programming via WAXY on October 3 through a time brokerage agreement.

Audacy has since maintained an automated Spanish oldies format in the meantime, along with using WAXY as an overflow station for English-language sports play-by-play coverage.