Looks like W292GE 106.3 WRAZ is a repeater of 92.3 Wcmq

[onemusic]

Looks like W292GE 106.3 WRAZ is a repeater of 92.3 Wcmq they play the same thing.

 

[Identnut]

Looks like W292GE 106.3 WRAZ is a repeater of 92.3 Wcmq they play the same thing.

W292GE 106.3 plays an HD subchannel of WCMQ. It gives the South Dade-based WRAZ a better signal in Miami proper.

 

[onemusic]

Also 92.3 hd2 plays the same thing as 92.3 Hd 1 why would you put so many repeaters in Miami? There was a time where 92.3 was the only Spanish station in south Florida.

 

[speer360]

WCMQ HD1 is Spanish Hot AC mixed with occasional Salsa.
WRAZ-FM/WCMQ-HD2/W292GE is Salsa

 

[davideduardo]

Also 92.3 hd2 plays the same thing as 92.3 Hd 1 why would you put so many repeaters in Miami? There was a time where 92.3 was the only Spanish station in south Florida.

92.3 came more than a decade after the first Spanish stations went on in Miami. The 1959 revolution in Cuba started producing refugees by the start of 1960 and that became a true flood in the rest of the early 60's.

92.2 was a later acquisition by Herb Dolgoff who had originally bought a daytime 250 watt and changed its call letters to WCMQ. Of course, "CMQ" was the big station in all Cuba owned by Goar Mestre.

But Dolgoff was a late entry into the Miami Spanish language market. WFAB-990 AM was the first, and WMIE (in 1971 became WQBA)-1140 was second. Both of those went to part time and then full time Spanish in the ealrly 60's.

WCMQ (AM) went Spanish in the mid-60's under the WLTO calls and owned by Latino Broadcasting. It sold to Dolgolff in 1973 and was followed the next year with 92.3, licensed to Hialeah. In 1972, WRHC under Salvador Lew went to a Spanish talk and music format. So by the time WCMQ-FM went on the air, there were 4 AMs in Spanish. They were the first FM, followed later in that decade by Super Q, owened by Susquehanna, the operators of WQBA.

The next two to "go Spanish" were WOCN in the later 70's and WWOK which became WHTT in 1981.