1010 WINS Noticias

[AceBiscuits]

Audacy has launched a Spanish-Language version of the 1010 WINS website that they are calling "1010 WINS Noticias."

https://1010winsnoticias.com

There is also a stream for it on Audacy, but it seems to be the regular WINS feed. Maybe a digital-only Spanish-language feed is coming?

 

[kevtronics]

Maybe they can LMA WEPN and put it on 1050, just one seek button away from 1010 WINS.

 

[Theater of My Mind]

660?

 

[BruceNYC]

660?

That is very possible as WFAN is greatly deemphasizing 660 in their promotions of the station.

 

[victorres43]

That is very possible as WFAN is greatly deemphasizing 660 in their promotions of the station.

Wouldn't WFAN moving to only FM result in WFAN losing coverage in Long Island? (Connecticut and portions of Upstate New York, too. But Long Island, most importantly.)

 

[Theater of My Mind]

I wish I had the stats, but it's safe to say the vast majority of listening to WFAN is on the FM signal now.

Maybe Audacy would find it more profitable to sacrifice some of those few remaining AM listeners around the fringes of the DMA and use 660 to serve all-news programming to the much larger Spanish-speaking population in the core NYC metro. WINS is already a very strong news brand in New York, and that's about the only format I can think of that could possibly draw new listeners and new revenue to an AM station in 2021.

Then again, all we have is a Spanish version of the website so anything beyond that is pure speculation at this point.

 

[davideduardo]

Audacy has launched a Spanish-Language version of the 1010 WINS website that they are calling "1010 WINS Noticias."

Interesting. All news has not worked in the last 30 years anywhere in Latin America. And that is interesting since the format was invented in Cuba in1948!.

 

[davideduardo]

Wouldn't WFAN moving to only FM result in WFAN losing coverage in Long Island? (Connecticut and portions of Upstate New York, too. But Long Island, most importantly.)

While LI is all in the NYC radio metro, only a tiny corner of one county in CT is in the market and “upstate” is not, either. For that reason, those areas don’t matter for revenue.

The outer areas my matter for play by play franchises, though.

 

[davideduardo]

I wish I had the stats, but it's safe to say the vast majority of listening to WFAN is on the FM signal now.

Maybe Audacy would find it more profitable to sacrifice some of those few remaining AM listeners around the fringes of the DMA and use 660 to serve all-news programming to the much larger Spanish-speaking population in the core NYC metro. WINS is already a very strong news brand in New York, and that's about the only format I can think of that could possibly draw new listeners and new revenue to an AM station in 2021.

There Is no DMA in radio, and PPM markets have MSA only, no TSA.

All-news is not a viable format in Spanish anywhere. Has not been for three decades or more

 

[victorres43]

I wish I had the stats, but it's safe to say the vast majority of listening to WFAN is on the FM signal now.

Maybe Audacy would find it more profitable to sacrifice some of those few remaining AM listeners around the fringes of the DMA and use 660 to serve all-news programming to the much larger Spanish-speaking population in the core NYC metro. WINS is already a very strong news brand in New York, and that's about the only format I can think of that could possibly draw new listeners and new revenue to an AM station in 2021.

Then again, all we have is a Spanish version of the website so anything beyond that is pure speculation at this point.

Suffolk County listeners may have trouble with the NYC FMs though.

 

[davideduardo]

Suffolk County listeners may have trouble with the NYC FMs though.

Only at the far East End. Otherwise, where 80% of the Suffolk population is, they do fine.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

1380 in NYC and 1230 in Manchester, CT did spanish news about 20 years ago and i dont recall it lasted too long

 

[alok]

The mention of All-News being invented in Cuba ,I love RADIO RELOJ ,with its ticking clock sound & its morse code ID . . . great !
Before the Internet whenever I got into Florida or an area in the southeast where I could hear the Cuba AM's ,I'd listen . . . couldn't understand Spanish but loved how each story was read then on the minute . . . the mention of RADIO REJOI ,then the code ID then into the next story . . . GREAT !!!
if ya want to . . . check it out online.

 

[TheBigA]

Maybe they can LMA WEPN and put it on 1050, just one seek button away from 1010 WINS.

Nice idea, but I think they're maxed out as far as FCC ownership rules. An LMA counts as an owned station.

 

[Marcos_C]

1380 in NYC and 1230 in Manchester, CT did spanish news about 20 years ago and i dont recall it lasted too long

Noticias 1380 lasted from 1999 to 2002. It began as an all-news station but later became a news/talk station.

 

[RadioGuy1864]

I don't think Spanish language news 24 hours a day would be a profitable format in NYC. It would need to be dayparted with some other format/language. Maybe news from 7am to 7pm then some other programming. Kind of like the old days of Italian on WOV. "Italian all day, jazz all night."

 

[davideduardo]

The mention of All-News being invented in Cuba ,I love RADIO RELOJ ,with its ticking clock sound & its morse code ID . . . great !
Before the Internet whenever I got into Florida or an area in the southeast where I could hear the Cuba AM's ,I'd listen . . . couldn't understand Spanish but loved how each story was read then on the minute . . . the mention of RADIO REJOI ,then the code ID then into the next story . . . GREAT !!!
if ya want to . . . check it out online.

That format was created in Cuba when literacy was much lower than we are accustomed to in today's world. Many could not read a paper, and many more could not afford one anyway. So the "diario hablado" or "spoken daily paper" was a mainstay of many Latin American radio stations in mornings and afternoons.

What I liked about the format was that they would have two anchors, and each would read a one minute story, then give the time with the audio "logo" and then the other announcer would read the next story. It was a fast-paced system, and quite exhausting for the announcers.

The Cuban version today is nowhere nearly as dynamic as the original incarnation was. And, of course, the cheap digital watch and the improved literacy across Latin America did that system in.

But the morning news block is still popular, but tends to be more a magazine format with news, commentary, weather, even listener reaction all some of the ingredients. At Emmis' Radio 10 in Buenos Aires in 1999 we had a morning staff of nearly 50 people just for the "First Morning" (6 to 9 AM) which even had a staff comedian who would do an hourly parody of some news event.

 

[davideduardo]

I don't think Spanish language news 24 hours a day would be a profitable format in NYC. It would need to be dayparted with some other format/language. Maybe news from 7am to 7pm then some other programming. Kind of like the old days of Italian on WOV. "Italian all day, jazz all night."

It's not a profitable format anywhere today. The closest there is to that is RPP in Perú, a national network with news blocks in mornings, the noon hour, afternoon. The rest of the time is talk, commentary, sports, etc. There is no equivalent of WINS or KNX anywhere in Latin America except Cuba... and we know why they want continuous news and propaganda!

Most Hispanics in the NYC metro come from the Caribbean Basin, and there has been no commercial all news station anywhere there for nearly 30 years.

Puerto Rico once had 4 all-news networks. They gradually transitioned to all talk and commentary in the 90's and there is not even one all news station now. Mexico City, with 23 million people, could not sustain one even though they have at least a dozen talk stations of some kind.

 

[AMRocks]

Not that this would ever happen, but IF they were planning to stop the WFAN simulcast, WINS would be much better on 660 because of the signal. And Spanish news could go on 1010.

Unfortunately, since the 1010 WINS brand is engrained in every New Yorker's brain, they couldn't do it.

As far as profitability of Spanish news, they could automate the station. Record segments like news updates, sports, business, etc, and let the computer run them in the correct order. Traffic is already done like this on many stations. The service uploads the report and the system just plays it. As things need updating, the staff would update it. (Headline News tried this on TV years ago and it was pretty good. They just had to be concerned with video.) Staff would be greatly reduced, which is one of the biggest obstacles of an all news format.

 

[davideduardo]

Not that this would ever happen, but IF they were planning to stop the WFAN simulcast, WINS would be much better on 660 because of the signal. And Spanish news could go on 1010.

Nobody is going to do a commercial Spanish language all-news format, here or anywhere. The only Latin American all-news station is a Communist government station in Cuba and it is not commercial.

As far as profitability of Spanish news, they could automate the station. Record segments like news updates, sports, business, etc, and let the computer run them in the correct order. Traffic is already done like this on many stations. The service uploads the report and the system just plays it. As things need updating, the staff would update it. (Headline News tried this on TV years ago and it was pretty good. They just had to be concerned with video.) Staff would be greatly reduced, which is one of the biggest obstacles of an all news format.

They would have to gather the news of Hispanic interest themselves, as there is no domestic Spanish language news service and no local Spanish language news bureau. Either they would have to have reporters and vehicles and such, of team with a Spanish language TV stations with a news department. Since Univision has its own radio division, cross that possibility out, and the Telemundo owners got out of radio long ago.

Spanish language radio and TV know that the news with the greatest interest among Hispanics is local and about subjeccts that Hispanics are interested in and concerned about. So a radio station would have to have a considerable news staff to satisfy that requirement.

In any case, where there has been all news in the past in Latin America, it appealed to predominantly A, B and C+ (High, Upper and Upper middle income groups), not C-, D and E (Lower Middle, Underemployed and "no earned income") groups. But the vast majority of Hispanics who migrate to the US are not in the income (and correlated educational levels) that listen to all news.