WNMA

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = WNMA

| city = Miami Springs, Florida

| country = US

| area = Miami metropolitan area

| branding = Radio Mundo 1210

| airdate = {{start date and age|1949|4|10|p=y|br=yes}}

| frequency = 1210 kHz

| format = Talk radio

| language = Spanish

| power = {{ubl|47,000 watts day|2,500 watts night}}

| class = B

| licensing_authority = FCC

| facility_id = 61642

| coordinates = {{coord|25|54|0.00|N|80|21|49.00|W|region:US_type:city}}

| former_frequencies = 1220 kHz (1949–1985)

| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WFEC (1949–1961)|WMBM (1961–1962)|WMET (1962–1965)|WOAH (1965–1969)|WLTO (1969–1972,|1973–1974)|WCMQ (1972–1973,|1974–1997)}}

| owner = Multicultural Broadcasting

| operator =

| licensee = Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC

| sister_stations = WEXY, WJCC

| webcast =

| website = [https://radiomundomiami.com/ radiomundomiami.com]

}}

WNMA (1210 AM) is a radio station licensed to Miami Springs, Florida, serving the Miami metropolitan area. It airs a Spanish talk radio format. The station is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting and currently operated by Adrian Pontes.

It broadcasts with 47,000 watts during the day and 2,500 watts at night. The signal can be received from as far north as Jupiter to as far south as the upper Florida keys. The nighttime directional pattern of WNMA protects 1210 in Philadelphia, a Class A 50,000-watt station.

History

=WFEC and WMBM=

WFEC signed on April 10, 1949.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48170175/station-wfec-goes-on-air/|work=Miami Herald|date=April 10, 1949|access-date=April 8, 2020|page=21-E|title=Station WFEC Goes on Air|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195537/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48170175/station-wfec-goes-on-air/|url-status=live}} The daytime-only outlet broadcast on 1220 kHz{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=51128 |title= History Cards for WNMA|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards) and was owned by the Florida East Coast Broadcasting Company. However, Florida East Coast reached a deal by the end of 1949 to sell the station to Howard B. Steere, an advertising executive from Detroit.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48170210/detroiter-buys-station-wfec/|access-date=April 8, 2020|title=Detroiter Buys Station WFEC|page=8-A|work=Miami Sunday News|date=December 18, 1949|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195617/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48170210/detroiter-buys-station-wfec/|url-status=live}} Early in 1950, an attempt made before the station had signed on to move it to 1230 kHz, thereby allowing it to broadcast at night, was denied by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); in 1951, Steere asked to move WFEC to 1240 kHz, which would also allow it nighttime operation, but the move was dismissed a year later.{{r|hc}}

Steere sold WFEC in 1952 to David Haber, owner of an automobile repair company and a fleet of taxi cabs in New York,{{r|tv}} for the same purchase price he had paid two years ago—$50,000.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300099/|work=Miami Herald|title=Change In WFEC License Approved|page=4-C|date=May 23, 1952|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195538/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300099/change-in-wfec-license-approved/|url-status=live}} Haber then filed to obtain a construction permit for a television station on channel 10 the next year, proposing to co-locate the TV transmitter with the radio station at 350 NE 71st Street.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300185/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=January 15, 1953|title=WFEC Seeks TV Channel 10|page=1-D|work=Miami Herald|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195540/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300185/wfec-seeks-tv-channel-10/|url-status=live}} With five other applicants seeking the channel, Haber dropped out in November.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300242/|date=November 26, 1953|work=Miami Herald|title=Haber Withdraws Bid For TV Channel 10|page=8-A|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195600/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300242/haber-withdraws-bid-for-tv-channel-10/|url-status=live}}

Under Haber and continuing under the second Florida East Coast Broadcasting Company, station programming was primarily aimed at a Black audience. As early as December 1952, WFEC promoted itself in trade advertising as "the only station in Florida featuring all-negro programming".{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1952/BC-1952-12-15.pdf|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=December 15, 1952|work=Broadcasting|page=100|title=Aggressive, experienced...|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308032321/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1952/BC-1952-12-15.pdf|url-status=live}} Robert Earl Sawyer hosted a weekly program, "Negro Review", on WFEC in 1952.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300632/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=July 6, 1952|work=Miami Daily News|title=New Voice|page=5-D|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195602/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300632/new-voice/|url-status=live}} 1957 brought King Coleman, formerly of Tampa's WIOK.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300568/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=January 22, 1957|work=Miami Daily News|first=Herb|last=Rau|title=No Foolin'|page=8B|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195541/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300568/herb-rau-no-contest-no-retirement-no/|url-status=live}} When the station gained a competitor—WMBM (800 AM, later 790 AM)—in the mid-1950s, it also lost DJ Milton Smith, known as the "Fat Daddy"; WFEC continued to promote a "Fat Daddy Show" with another DJ, while WMBM promoted Smith as the "Original Fat Daddy".{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301054/|date=October 24, 1955|title=British Find U.S. Shows Un-Funny|work=Miami Herald|access-date=April 8, 2020|first=Jack E.|last=Anderson|page=22-C|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301054/british-find-us-shows-un-funny/|url-status=live}}

In 1955, WFEC and two other Miami stations—WMBM and WAHR—came under scrutiny by the FCC for their airing of programs by "tipsters" claiming to help listeners predict—and bet on—horse race winners.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300706/|title=FCC Action Hits 3 Radio Stations Here|page=1-B|work=Miami Herald|date=April 8, 1955|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48300706/fcc-action-hits-3-radio-stations-here/|url-status=live}} The stations won license renewals after removing the programs.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1955/1955-07-04-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=July 4, 1955|access-date=April 8, 2020|page=70|title=Five Win Renewals|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308040813/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1955/1955-07-04-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} The station was sold later in the year from Haber to a new Florida East Coast Broadcasting Company, owned by General Teleradio executive Harry Trenner and WFEC general manager Herbert Schorr, for $70,000.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1955/1955-12-12-BC.pdf|access-date=April 8, 2020|work=Broadcasting|date=December 12, 1955|page=96|title=For the Record|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308032330/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1955/1955-12-12-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} Two years later, a new group of stockholders, known as Fraternity Associates, bought a third of WFEC in exchange for a $135,000 loan.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1957/1957-11-18-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=December 18, 1957|access-date=April 8, 2020|title=For the Record|page=130|archive-date=June 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621115635/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1957/1957-11-18-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} In 1960, WFEC was sold to Consolidated Communications of Philadelphia for $250,000, with the new owners pledging to retain the station's format.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301240/|access-date=April 8, 2020|title=Station Sold For $250,000|work=Miami Herald|date=November 29, 1960|page=6-B|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301240/station-sold-for-250000/|url-status=live}}

The WMBM call letters became available when 790 AM changed its call letters to WFUN in January 1961 and became a general-market Top 40 outlet. WFEC took on the WMBM call letters as well as several personalities that had previously broadcast on WMBM at 790.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301329/|work=Miami News|title=WMBM, WFUN: Switcheroo On Radio In Miami|date=January 23, 1961|access-date=April 8, 2020|page=4B|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301329/wmbm-wfun-switcheroo-on-radio-in-miami/|url-status=live}} However, WMBM also sought what had already been denied twice to the 1220 facility: the ability to broadcast at night. At the end of 1961, it began negotiating a deal with Latin Broadcasting Company, the owners of WMET (1490 AM), which would see WMET and WMBM swap facilities.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301491/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=December 14, 1961|first=Kristine|last=Dunn|work=Miami News|page=7B|title=WMBM To Go 24 Hours|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301491/wmbm-to-go-24-hours/|url-status=live}} The deal was finalized and announced in March 1962; Consolidated paid $253,000 to acquire the WMET-AM-FM facility.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301571/|work=Miami Herald|title=Radio WMBM, WMET Will Make a Switch|page=2-F|date=March 23, 1962|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301571/radio-wmbm-wmet-will-make-a-switch/|url-status=live}}

=WMET and WOAH=

On April 3, 1962, the WMBM intellectual unit moved to 1490 kHz, and 1220 received a relocated WMET, a Spanish-language outlet.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301631/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=April 2, 1962|first=Kristine|last=Dunn|work=Miami News|title=WVCG-FM To Boost Power|page=4B|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195651/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301631/wvcg-fm-to-boost-power/|url-status=live}} Three years later, however, the station dropped Spanish-language programming and changed its call letters to WOAH, airing Miami's first full-time country music format; the format flip left WFAB as the city's only Spanish-language radio station.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301696/|access-date=April 8, 2020|first=Fran|last=Swaebly|title=Exiles Blending Into Community|work=Miami Herald|date=July 28, 1965|page=5-F|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195654/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301696/exiles-blending-into-community/|url-status=live}} Another attempt was made in 1965 to change the station's frequency; however, the FCC dismissed Latin's application to shift to 1190 kHz in 1969.{{r|hc}}

=WLTO and WCMQ=

On January 9, 1969, WOAH changed its call letters to WLTO,{{r|hc}} returning to Spanish-language programming. However, the station would not experience major turbulence until 1972, when its ownership consortium, Dynamic Broadcasting, sold the outlet to Herbert S. Dolgoff for $450,000.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1972/1972-05-29-BC.pdf|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=May 29, 1972|work=Broadcasting|title=Changing Hands|pages=30–31|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308034442/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1972/1972-05-29-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} Dolgoff changed the call letters to WCMQ and instituted a Spanish-language pop music format;{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301997/|first=Jack E.|last=Anderson|work=Miami Herald|title=Rock Hudson to Be First Guest As Donahue Tapes Show Here|date=November 10, 1972|page=11-E|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195654/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48301997/rock-hudson-to-be-first-guest-as/|url-status=live}} he did not speak any Spanish when he bought the station but said he was trying to learn.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302097/|access-date=April 8, 2020|date=December 4, 1972|title=Radio manager tunes in to Latin market|work=Miami News|first=Jack|last=Roberts|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195654/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302097/radio-manager-tunes-in-to-latin-market/|url-status=live}}

The new WCMQ call letters connected the station to a lengthy broadcasting heritage in Cuba, where CMQ had been one of the most important broadcasters in the country prior to the Cuban Revolution, when the radio station became the core of the Radio Rebelde national network. A month after they were adopted by the Miami radio station, CMQ Corporation, a production company owned by the Mestre brothers who had owned CMQ before its nationalization, objected to the new moniker, claiming that WCMQ was attempting to traffic in the former Cuban broadcaster's goodwill and reputation. The FCC Broadcast Bureau overrode the objection, but on appeal, the full commission granted CMQ's application for review on February 21, 1973, citing the potential for confusion between the American and Cuban outlets and ordered the radio station to revert to its previous WLTO call letters. The Miami station countered by noting that the Cuban station had not used the call letters on air since 1968.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-04-09-BC.pdf|title=Miami AM tells FCC it needs CMQ to live|pages=40, 41|access-date=April 8, 2020|work=Broadcasting|date=April 9, 1973|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308034619/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-04-09-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} On July 31, 1974, WLTO became WCMQ again; the next year, the FCC denied a petition by CMQ Corporation to deny the license renewal of WCMQ.{{r|hc}}

As WCMQ, the station upgraded from 250 watts of daytime power to 1,000 in 1978.{{r|hc}} It also gained an FM partner in 1974 when Dolgoff acquired WQXK-FM in Hialeah and relaunched it as WCMQ-FM.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302370/|title=Latin station owner buys WQXK in Hialeah|page=8B|date=April 15, 1974|first=Sherry|last=Woods|work=Miami News|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195716/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302370/latin-station-owner-buys-wqxk-in-hialeah/|url-status=live}}

Dolgoff attempted to sell WCMQ-AM-FM in 1979 to American Radio and Television, owned by Michael F. Leone and Joy S. Davis, for $4.5 million; the sale collapsed in July 1980.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1979/BC-1979-12-17.pdf|date=December 17, 1979|work=Broadcasting|access-date=April 9, 2020|page=58|title=Changing Hands|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308024821/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1979/BC-1979-12-17.pdf|url-status=live}}{{r|hc}} By 1981, WCMQ AM aired an Oro Puro ("Pure Gold") oldies format, complementing the younger sound of WCMQ-FM.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302454/|pages=Business 20, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302467/ 21]|access-date=April 8, 2020|first=Mimi|last=Whitefield|work=Miami Herald|title=Miami's Spanish-language radio stations: Sedate they're not|date=February 2, 1981|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195657/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302454/miamis-spanish-radio-stations-sedate/|url-status=live}} In the early 1980s WCMQ made its fourth—and successful—attempt to change frequencies and broadcast at night. In 1981, the station filed to change its city of license from Miami to Miami Springs, move from 1220 to 1210 kHz, increase its daytime power and add nighttime service.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1981/1981-10-05-BC.pdf|access-date=April 9, 2020|work=Broadcasting|date=October 5, 1981|page=60|title=For the Record|archive-date=June 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626194103/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1981/1981-10-05-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} The station moved to 1210 in 1985 and began transmitting in C-QUAM AM stereo, the first such station in South Florida.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302596/|access-date=April 9, 2020|title=You're not hearing double—that really is stereo AM|first=Linda|last=Thornton|work=Miami Herald|date=July 16, 1986|page=3E|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195658/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302596/youre-not-hearing-doublethat-really/|url-status=live}}

After having owned WCMQ-AM-FM since 1972 and 1974, respectively, Dolgoff sold the pair for $15 million to Spanish Broadcasting System in 1986, marking his retirement from station ownership.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302631/|access-date=April 9, 2020|first=Linda|last=Thornton|title=For 20 years, he's ridden S. Florida's radio waves|page=3E|date=December 17, 1986|work=Miami Herald|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302631/for-20-years-hes-ridden-s-floridas/|url-status=live}} SBS ownership brought an overhaul to the AM, which was sinking in the ratings, and changed its moniker from "Radio Alegre" to "Radio Centro" with a faster-paced format.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302708/|title=His life in radio leads to network dreams|first=Patricia|last=Duarte|work=Miami Herald|date=February 23, 1987|pages=9, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302730/ 10]|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48302708/his-life-in-radio-leads-to-network/|url-status=live}}

In the 1990s, WCMQ's programming shifted to talk. The station was the charter Spanish-language broadcaster of the expansion Florida Marlins Major League Baseball team in 1993, with Felo Ramírez as play-by-play announcer, under a deal that included affiliates in Latin America.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48340289/|access-date=April 9, 2020|date=August 21, 1992|title=Hall of Fame broadcaster to be Marlins' Spanish voice|work=Miami Herald|first=Dan|last=Le Batard|page=4D|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48340289/hall-of-fame-broadcaster-to-be-marlins/|url-status=live}} Tomás García Fusté, a market veteran, defected from competitor WQBA in 1993 after more than a decade at that station.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48340559/|access-date=April 9, 2020|date=May 10, 1993|first=Cynthia|last=Corzo|title=Moving on the dial: Top Spanish-language radio host to leave WQBA for WCMQ post|work=Miami Herald|pages=1B, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48340694/ 8B]|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48340559/moving-on-the-dial-top/|url-status=live}}

=Expanded Band assignment=

On March 17, 1997 the FCC announced that 88 stations been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WCMQ authorized to move from 1210 to 1700 kHz.{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004848309&view=1up&seq=276|title=FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations (FCC DA 97-537)|date=March 17, 1997|access-date=June 26, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521121515/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004848309&view=1up&seq=276|url-status=live}}

The call sign for the original WCMQ on 1210 AM was changed to WNMA on November 25, 1997, thus allowing a construction permit for the expanded band station on 1700 AM to inherit the historic WCMQ call letters on December 5, 1997.{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=87169|title=FCC Call Sign History, (Facility ID: 87169)|access-date=2021-06-26}} The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. Due to this requirement, on February 23, 2006 the station on 1700 AM, now with the call letters WJCC, was deleted. However, numerous other joint standard/expanded band station pairs had been permitted to operate beyond the initial five year deadline, and a petition to resume operations was granted, with WJCC's license restored on October 4, 2012.{{cite web|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=36362|title=Petition for Reconsideration, License Renewal Application|first=Peter H.|last=Doyle|publisher=Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission|date=October 4, 2012|access-date=June 26, 2021|archive-date=June 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626194101/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=36362|url-status=live}} Since then, the FCC deadline has been extended multiple times, and both stations have remained authorized. One restriction is that the FCC has generally required paired original and expanded band stations to remain under common ownership.{{cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437121992750;view=1up;seq=264|title=In re: WHLY(AM), South Bend, Indiana (FCC DA 13-600)|date=April 3, 2013|access-date=March 31, 2022|archive-date=March 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319091505/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437121992750;view=1up;seq=264|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=21066|title=Re: WDDD (AM) Application for Consent to Assignment of AM Broadcast Station License|date=August 23, 2010|publisher=Correspondence from Peter H. Doyle, Chief, Federal Communications Commission, Audio Division, Media Bureau. Reference Number 1800B3-TSN|access-date=August 4, 2023}}

=One-on-One Sports and Radio Única=

{{for|the history of WCMQ at 1700 AM from 1997 to 1999|WJCC (AM)}}

In 1997, citing a desire to exit AM radio and focus on music-formatted FM stations, SBS sold its three AM outlets—WCMQ, KXMG in Los Angeles and WXLX in New York City—to the One-on-One Sports radio network, in a $45 million transaction that saw One-on-One enter station ownership for the first time.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-21.pdf|access-date=April 9, 2020|date=March 21, 1997|work=Radio & Records|title=One-On-One Sports Pays $45 Mil. For Three SBS Outlets|pages=1, 28|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309120538/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-21.pdf|url-status=live}} For WCMQ listeners and air staff, the move was a shock. García Fusté found out from the Associated Press news wire, and his WCMQ program Micrófono Abierto was flooded with calls.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48339891/|first=Mimi|last=Whitefield|date=March 16, 1997|title=News of planned sale saddens employees, listeners|work=Miami Herald|access-date=April 9, 2020|page=4B|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195719/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48339891/news-of-planned-sale-saddens-employees/|url-status=live}} However, for WCMQ, it ended up not being goodbye, as the station moved to a new expanded band license at 1700 kHz. That station signed on November 17, 1997—the same day that 1210 kHz flipped to One-on-One as WNMA.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341092/|access-date=April 9, 2020|title=Tune to WCMQ on new frequency|date=November 17, 1997|work=Miami Herald|page=6C|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195719/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341092/tune-to-wcmq-on-new-frequency/|url-status=live}}

One-on-One sold WNMA and WCMQ in February 1998 to the Radio Única Spanish-language radio network in a $9 million transaction.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1998/RR-1998-02-20.pdf|date=February 20, 1998|work=Radio & Records|access-date=April 9, 2020|page=6|title=One-On-One Spins Off Two To Radio Unica|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309120040/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1998/RR-1998-02-20.pdf|url-status=live}} WNMA was one of 13 owned-and-operated Radio Única stations, and network operations also were based in Miami.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341517/|first=Gregg|last=Fields|date=October 20, 1999|work=Miami Herald|title=Investors tune to Radio Única; shares climb 72% during IPO|access-date=April 9, 2020|page=1C|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195720/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341517/investors-tune-to-radio-nica-shares/|url-status=live}} García Fusté continued to host a program.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341765/|title=Piden los colombianos que se les dé el TPS|work=El Nuevo Herald|date=January 29, 2000|language=es|first=María|last=Travierso|page=4A|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195721/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341765/piden-los-colombianos-que-se-les-d-el/|url-status=live}} Additionally, WNMA became the Spanish-language home of Miami Dolphins football under a two-year deal in 2001.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341914/|access-date=April 9, 2020|title=Galyon makes 1st practice since surgery|first=Alex|last=Marvez|work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel|date=August 1, 2001|page=7C|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195740/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48341914/new-radio-deal/|url-status=live}}

=Sale to Multicultural=

In 2003, Radio Única declared bankruptcy and sold its 15 stations to Multicultural Broadcasting for $150 million.{{Cite news|pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342360/ 10D]|work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel|date=October 7, 2003|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342420/|title=Radio Única set to sell 15 stations|first=Joseph|last=Mann|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195721/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342420/radio-nica-set-to-sell-15-stations/|url-status=live}} As part of the bankruptcy, the company laid off 220 employees, including 76 in Miami.{{cite news|title=220 to lose jobs at Radio Única|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342546/|pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342603/ 2D]|work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel|first=Joseph|last=Mann|access-date=April 9, 2020|date=December 3, 2003|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195721/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48342546/220-to-lose-jobs-at-radio-nica/|url-status=live}}

As with most other Multicultural stations, WNMA featured brokered programming. In 2006, Venezuelan radio network {{interlanguage link|Circuito Unión Radio|es}} began buying air time to broadcast some of its programming in Miami, hoping to build an audience and fearful of potential reprisals as Hugo Chávez consolidated media power in Venezuela.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48343359/|title=Radio revolt blasts Chávez|work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel|date=February 4, 2007|first=Tal|last=Abbady|page=10B|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195721/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48343359/radio-revolt-blasts-chvez/|url-status=live}}

In 2011,{{cite news|date=July 27, 2011|work=All Access|url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/94320/espn-deportes-radio-moving-to-1210-am-in-miami|title=ESPN Deportes Radio Moving To 1210 AM In Miami|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=June 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610050129/http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/94320/espn-deportes-radio-moving-to-1210-am-in-miami|url-status=live}} Deportes Media took over WNMA under a local marketing agreement and ran the ESPN Deportes Spanish-language sports network on the station; WNMA replaced WOCN and increased the signal coverage of the network in south Florida. However, Deportes Media collapsed in 2016, losing its various local marketing agreements in Miami and other cities, and WMYM (990 AM) replaced it in the network.{{cite news|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/109105/espn-deportes-moves-in-miami-under-new-management-in-san-francisco/|date=November 11, 2016|title=ESPN Deportes Dallas Update|work=RadioInsight|first=Lance|last=Venta|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014091335/https://radioinsight.com/headlines/109105/espn-deportes-moves-in-miami-under-new-management-in-san-francisco/|url-status=live}}

After ESPN Deportes moved to WMYM, WNMA returned to talk, airing programming in English and Spanish.{{r|man}}

=1210 The Man=

In late 2018, Cielo Media, led by former Salem Media Group Miami general manager, Tony Catalyud, began leasing WNMA. It relaunched the station as a male-oriented talk outlet, "1210 The Man", in March 2019.{{cite news|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/173728/1210-the-man-to-launch-in-miami/|work=RadioInsight|first=Lance|last=Venta|access-date=April 9, 2020|date=January 14, 2019|title=1210 The Man To Launch In Miami|archive-date=May 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520195722/https://radioinsight.com/headlines/173728/1210-the-man-to-launch-in-miami/|url-status=live}} The station added a series of Caribbean talk shows to its Saturday lineup in September; the programs, which debuted in the 1980s, had aired over WZAB (880 AM) before it was sold to Immaculate Heart Media and became part of the Relevant Radio network.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfltimes.com/news/local/caribbean-radio-shows-gain-1210-am-the-man-audience|date=September 19, 2019|work=South Florida Times|title=Caribbean radio shows gain 1210 AM The Man audience|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001125054/http://www.sfltimes.com/news/local/caribbean-radio-shows-gain-1210-am-the-man-audience|url-status=live}}

=Oasis=

In June 2021, Adrian Pontes leased the station and relaunched it with Spanish-language Christian programming as "Radio Oasis 1210". One of the programs on the station will be his afternoon show, which had previously aired on WEYS-LP 87.7.{{Cite news |last=Venta |first=Lance |date=June 22, 2021 |title=An Oasis Springs Up In Miami |language=en-US |work=RadioInsight |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/209905/an-oasis-springs-up-in-miami/ |access-date=June 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622175235/https://radioinsight.com/headlines/209905/an-oasis-springs-up-in-miami/ |url-status=live }}

=Spanish and English classic hits=

In June 2023, The Spanish Christian "Radio Oasis" format moved to WMYM and WNMA has since been airing a Spanish and English classic hits format.

=Radio Mundo=

On November 30, 2023, WNMA flipped to Spanish talk as "Radio Mundo 1210".

References

External links

[https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=51128 FCC History Cards for WNMA] (covering 1946-1980 as WFEC / WMBM / WMET / WOAH / WLTO / WCMQ)

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