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1010 WINS Noticias

DavidEduardo said:
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 in 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.
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When I visited Miami to take my FCC First Class license test in 1980, WQBA was doing its own version of Radio Reloj in morning drive.
 
gr8oldies said:
When I visited Miami to take my FCC First Class license test in 1980, WQBA was doing its own version of Radio Reloj in morning drive.
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Yes, they began that back in the 60's when they were still WMIE and block brokered. For many years, they were second place to WFAB, Richard Eaton's "house of horrors", which also had the traditional Cuban morning news block. Finally, when Herb Levin became manager and they became WQBA and fulltime Spanish "La Cubanísima" started winning. And when WFAB lost its license most deservedly, WQBA became dominant until well into the 80's when WRHC started winning with even a more extreme anti-Castro position.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Yes, they began that back in the 60's when they were still WMIE and block brokered. For many years, they were second place to WFAB, Richard Eaton's "house of horrors", which also had the traditional Cuban morning news block. Finally, when Herb Levin became manager and they became WQBA and fulltime Spanish "La Cubanísima" started winning. And when WFAB lost its license most deservedly, WQBA became dominant until well into the 80's when WRHC started winning with even a more extreme anti-Castro position.
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I also remember WQBA-FM from that trip, with alternating English and Spanish language hits.
 
Looks like 1010 WINS Noticias is a website only and there will be no Spanish language stream. However, they will be producing Spanish language news podcasts and daily updates.
 
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