WQAM

[3] Weekdays on WQAM begin with The Joe Rose Show, hosted by the former Miami Dolphins tight end.

[5] However, multiple alternative dates have been stated for its founding, due to the opinion that WQAM's history should actually start with an earlier Miami station, WFAW.

[12] On January 27, 1923, the Metropolis reported that a 100 watt transmitter to be used by the newspaper's broadcast service, that was designed and built by F. W. Borton of the Electrical Equipment Company and installed at Electrical Equipment's offices at Northwest Fourth Street, would make its debut broadcast the next evening.

Storz installed a Top 40 format on WQAM and the station competed vigorously with rival WFUN 790 AM (now WAXY).

By far Miami and South Florida's predominant radio station at the time, baby boomers from Jupiter to Key West, and even in Havana, listened to WQAM for the latest in local and American pop music from the 1960s well into the late 1970s.

At that time, WQAM was one of the many AM radio stations airing Casey Kasem's American Top 40, and Cuban youngsters used to gather at friends' houses to listen to the countdown of America's most popular songs, especially the 8-hour-long year-end show of Billboard's top 100 songs of the year in which the syndication company that owned the show had put out on vinyl records at a speed of 33 RPM.

WQAM It ended its run as a Top 40 station on February 28, 1980 which was a leap year and Dan Halyburton signed them off with a montage of music, soundbites and jingles from PAMS.

Sunshine Wireless now had an AM country station, with personality DJs, NBC News, and local information.

By 1989, WQAM had been unable to achieve a full share point in the Arbitron surveys with its mix of country music and sports.

In 1990, the station abandoned its country music format in favor of the satellite-fed "Kool Gold" service, which aired 1950s and '60s oldies.

WAXY's ESPN Radio affiliation was swapped to WQAM, clearing The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (as its new flagship station), Stephen A. Smith, and the network's overnight and weekend programming (notwithstanding conflicts with sports play-by-play).

[25] As part of a larger realignment of ESPN Radio's schedule on August 17, 2020 (which saw Dan Le Batard cut to two hours, and the premiere of Greeny with Mike Greenberg), WQAM began to simulcast Hochman and Crowder from WAXY in full.

Meanwhile, WAXY replaced much of its local programming with sports betting-oriented shows from Audacy's BetQL Network.

[28] So WQAM began airing BetQL programming in the evening and CBS Sports Radio shows overnight and on weekends.