The days for sports talk on 790 AM in Miami are numbered. 790 The Ticket will go off the air on Monday. The station will be replaced by Spanish-language conservative talk.
Americano Media is a conservative radio network for the Spanish-speaking audience. It launched earlier this year on SiriusXM but is making the move to a terrestrial signal.
Audacy will still own and operate 790 AM. The station will carry content from Americano Media under the name Radio Libre according to NBC’s Marc Caputo.
“We’re proud to introduce Spanish radio to our South Florida portfolio for the first time ever and empower the voice of so many of our neighbors in this community,” Claudia Menegus, Audacy’s regional president and market manager said in a statement. “With the launch of this station, we aim to not only serve our listeners but give them a reliable home for the news they seek and the information they rely on every day.”
The station became known as 790 The Ticket in 2004 after a group of investors purchased the signal and launched a competitor to WQAM. The station was the original home of The Dan Le Batard Show.
In 2017, Entercom’s merger with CBS Radio meant that the two stations were part of the same cluster. A number of lineup changes and show shifts have occurred since then. The most recent saw more local programming move to WQAM to make room for BetQL and CBS Sports Radio programming on 790 The Ticket late last year.
Currently, The Ticket and WQAM share an afternoon show in Hochman & Crowder. Jonathan Zaslow, who had been heard in middays on WQAM, was let go last week. That could create an opening for Tobin & Leroy, which currently airs in morning drive on 790 The Ticket.
The three remaining local sports shows are awful !