Has a major Spanish-language radio reform venture failed in Miami?

Turn on Miami Spanish-language radio station WQBA, 1140 AM, and what you hear now is music.

Which is fine — except that a lot of folks in Miami had hoped instead to be hearing a new, less extremist vibe on Spanish-language radio.

At the end of July, WQBA's news and talk show staff, including celebrity Latino broadcaster Oscar Haza, was let go. They’d been brought on last year by the station's new owner, the Santa Fe, N.M.-based Latino Media Network, to make its programming more politically moderate and journalistically fact-based.

“I was enthusiastic," Haza told WLRN.

"It was a really well-intentioned project and it was working. But curiously, in the end there was no follow-up support, no aggressive marketing.”

That's because, say Latino Media Network sources, money to sustain that ma