WFEZ
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| City | Miami |
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| Broadcast area | Miami metro area |
| Branding | Easy 93.1 |
| Slogan | Continuous Soft and Easy Favorites |
| Frequency | 93.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 29, 1947 (as WKAT-FM) |
| Format |
Adult Contemporary HD2: Dance |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 307 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 40408 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°58′2.00″N 80°12′34.00″W / 25.9672222°N 80.2094444°W |
| Former callsigns | WKAT-FM (1947-1971) WTMI (1971-2001) WPYM (2002-2005) WHDR (2005-2010) |
| Owner | Cox Media Group (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Webcast |
Listen Live - WFEZ Listen Live - Party 93.1 HD2 |
| Website |
easy93.com party931.com (HD2) |
WFEZ (93.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format on analog and HD1 and a Dance format on its HD2 channel. Licensed to Miami, Florida, USA, the stations serves Miami-Dade, Broward, and most of Palm Beach Counties. WFEZ is currently owned by Cox Media Group. Its studios are in Hollywood and the transmitter site is in Miami Gardens.
93.1 FM was originally WKAT-FM, which began broadcasting on a full-time basis December 29, 1947.
Later, the station became classical WTMI, which began in 1971. For decades, the station also featured popular jazz broadcaster China Valles and his overnight show, "China's Jazz Thing," Monday through Friday. At Noon on New Year's Eve, 2001, WTMI flipped to a Pure Dance format and became WPYM, "Party 93.1, South Florida's Pure Dance Channel." The station earned an "Innovators Award" from Billboard magazine in 2002 and a "Best Dance Radio Station Award," at the 2004 Dancestar USA honors.
WPYM's demise came on February 14, 2005. With poor ratings, Cox Radio took advantage of the sudden departure of WZTA (when it flipped from Rock to Hispanic Rhythmic as WMGE) by picking up the Active Rock format and taking the call letters WHDR, calling itself "93 Rock". It became a mainstream rock station per Mediabase and Nielsen BDS reports in 2008 after continued failure with the active rock format.
On November 20, 2010, at 7 a.m., due to underwhelming ratings with their Mainstream Rock format, WHDR began stunting with Christmas music, with a new format to debut after the holidays. At midnight on December 26, 2010, under the direction of programming director Gary Williams, the station flipped to a Soft AC format and became "Easy 93.1". The first 5 songs to be played were "Easy" by The Commodores, "Something" by The Beatles, "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor, "My Special Angel" by Bobby Helms, and "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston. Unlike WHDR and WPYM, the station has become a runaway success, more so then many analysts anticipated. In 2013, WFEZ was a Marconi finalist for AC station of the year.
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