WAVS

In the 1950's and 1960's the station at 1170 had the call letters WAME, and its R&B format was known as The Whammy in Miami.

In 1969, it traded call letters with then WWOK in Charlotte, North Carolina and adopted a Country Music format. Mission Broadcasting, the station's owners, added an FM signal, WJOK, which was partially simulcast for a time, and later became WIGL with a totally separate format.

In 1978, the station was sold again, took on an Hispanic format with the call letters WQBA (Cuba).