WINZ (AM)
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| City | Miami, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | South Florida metropolitan area |
| Branding | 940 WINZ |
| Slogan | Miami's Sports Station |
| Frequency | 940 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | WZTU-FM HD2 94.9-2 |
| First air date | 1947 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 50,000 watts daytime 10,000 watts nighttime 25,000 watts nighttime under special temporary authority |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 51977 |
| Callsign meaning | WINZ stands for WINS |
| Former callsigns | WRFX (2002-2004) |
| Affiliations |
Fox Sports Radio Miami Marlins Florida Gators |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WIOD, WMIA-FM, WMIB, WZTU |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 940winz.com |
WINZ (940 AM, "Miami's Sports Station") has a Sports radio format and serves Miami-Fort Lauderdale and their suburbs. The station primarily airs syndicated programming from Fox Sports Radio with some local sports talk and game coverage. Its daytime signal reaches as far north as Ft. Pierce, as far west as Ft. Myers and Naples, and as far south as Cuba. The station has managed to score ratings in the Ft. Myers-Naples radio market despite its transmitter being over 100 miles away.
WINZ's studios are located in the iHeart Radio complex in Miramar and the transmitter site is in Miami Gardens.
The station is non-directional in the daytime hours and broadcasts with 50,000 watts. During nighttime hours (sunset to sunrise) the WINZ directional skywave pattern must not interfere with stations in Canada and Mexico. Those countries have Class A Clear Channel rights to the 940 kHz frequency. Those stations are XEQ-AM in Mexico City, and a station allocation in Montreal previously occupied by CINW, which fell silent in February 2010; however, the allocation still exists by international treaty, and will soon be occupied by a new station.
On February 17, 1981 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted WINZ special temporary authority to transmit with 25,000 watts at night instead of the 10,000 watts for which it is licensed. A station in Cuba causes interference and consequently a loss of service in some areas of WINZ's listening area. This authority has been renewed regularly since then.
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