1010 WINS on 92.3 FM & CBS FM Lose at least two on air.
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Ohhh sorry. I’m surprised They let Annie go
The 30 second song challenge won’t be the same without Annie
How many Female DJ’s have they had in their history ?
Could this be an attempt to slash expenses ahead of a merger with Cumulus?
Just curious if this means no more morning sports on WINS, or whether one of the FAN staff will now do it on tape.
Sue O'Neill back in the '80s (possibly the '90s). She did weekends & fill-ins for awhile. I can't recall any others doing solo shifts.
Now if you widen that to co-hosts/sidekicks on the morning drive show, that would add a couple, Annie being the most recent. Scott Shannon also had one, though her name's not coming to me. But before that, Dan Taylor didn't have a sidekick of either sex, Mickey Dolenz/Mike Fitzgerald's short stint didn't, and for sure Harry Harrison never did (other than a newscaster, which wouldn't count as a "DJ").
I think the only solo female personalities they had were Holly Levis (early 2000s through 2005) and Sue O’Neal, but Sue wasn’t on until 2007 through the early 2010s, from what I remember.
That would have been Patty Steele.
Remember when Sue O. worked at Hot 97?
I remember when she worked at 99X...
WINS dropped the :15 and :45 sports updates in the early weeks of the COVID pandemic, when the entire sports world shut down. Before that, they only had Marc Ernay in morning drive and WFAN update anchors (John Minko, Jerry Recco, Bob Heussler, Rich Ackerman amongst them) filling in the rest of time.
I can't remember exactly when, but once sports news returned it was only the one-minute Ernay hits, mostly in mornings. Only WCBS was devoting a full 2–2.5 minutes on sports reports twice an hour.
Remember that when Entercom came along, reducing WFAN's updates to once per hour was one of their early moves. Then there was some event–post-merger layoffs, or a change in providers (was it Entercom's split from Total Traffic in 2017-18?)–which resulted in both WCBS and WINS going in-house with 'FAN. And when WCBS went away, I was hoping WINS would restore the twice-hourly reports but that didn't happen. So if completely eliminating sports updates from WINS was the ultimate endgame, that has been achieved. The reality is that, like traffic reports (despite those who believe it's sacred) there really isn't a need for sports updates twice an hour on an all-news radio station in 2025. Smartphones have filled that need.
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They're usually sponsored. That's why they do them. Sports reports can attract different advertisers than news. Same with traffic. But in the current advertising environment, it's probably all the same ad pool.
In Philly my memory is CBS was trying to create synergies between stations and had sports radio WIP update staff provide the twice hourly sports updates on all news KYW. Entercom eliminated these crossovers and a new staffer was hired at KYW to provide sports updates, primarily on morning drive and on certain game days. Not sure why this sharing of staff was eliminated as it made a lot of sense if you are trying to reduce or control costs.
Traffic & Sports usually involves 10 second spots. Or sponsored just by saying from the (advertising sponsor) sports desk. An Anchor can easily read important scores or a headline & still accomplish that. Eliminating the need for a Sports Reporter
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