Long Island Newsday produced a short video about the anniversary.
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Today is the 60th Anniversary of 1010 WINS as an All-News Station
- Thread starter BruceNYC
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Hats off to them Once the Flagship Station for. Shadow Traffic.
60 years and still going strong. Great station. They lasted as an AM only until 2 1/2 years ago, but the writing was on the wall. Audacy gave them an FM frequency before it was too late. Look forward to many more decades of 1010 WINS.
It is a shame that their sister station, WCBS never got onto FM and met a predictable fate.
Side note, the only (full time) all-news station AM only is WWJ in Detroit. Wonder when they will get some sort of presence on FM?
It is a shame that their sister station, WCBS never got onto FM and met a predictable fate.
Side note, the only (full time) all-news station AM only is WWJ in Detroit. Wonder when they will get some sort of presence on FM?
If WWJ is profitable, it will get an FM.
If it did so, it would have to give up either 98.7 WDZH (Alt 98.7), 99.5 WYCD (New Country 99-5 YCD), or 104.3 WOMC because there's no way in hell they would give up 97.1 WXYT-FM (97.1 The Ticket) for it, considering how popular WXYT-FM is and also how many pro sports rights they have (though they just gave up Michigan Wolverines athletics to Beasley which will be on 94.7 WCSX and 105.1 WMGC-FM).
One of the interesting tid-bits to me is that Westinghouse bought WINS in 1962, and flipped it to all news 3 years later. Westinghouse was one of the first owners of radio in 1922, with KDKA Pittsburgh, and then WJZ in Newark. Both of those stations operated from Westinghouse Electric factories in those towns. Westinghouse was a partner in the NBC Radio Network, along with GE, AT&T, and RCA. WJZ was part of that partnership, and was the flagship of the Blue network. In 1923, WJZ became fully owned by RCA and Westinghouse no longer had a radio station in the NY area. When Westinghouse bought WINS, they might have wanted to bring back the WJZ call letters. But by then, they had moved to Baltimore. Westinghouse continued to own WINS until the company bought CBS and became the CBS Corporation.
it was called WINSLAND in their RnR days!!!!!
As I've said many times . . . 1010 WINS is CLASS! When they played RnR and when they went ALL-NEWS. Even with ALL-NEWS, I still think they are cool.
When I got a studio tour by Lee Harris (morning anchor at the time) in the late 80's it was a thrill for me.
When I hung out afew times (staying out of the way) at their transmitter site when they changed the 4 tower in-line array to a 4 tower parallelogram . . . the people working at the site were super nice, more than willing to answer questions.
The transmitter engineer was, real nice too. I'd be in the NYC area visiting family and would try to at least hit the transmitter site once to talk too if I had the time. Would not stay long but talk abit.
As I said before, riding around in the early 60's on the backside of the WINS pattern in Northern NJ was "kind of funny" if you were a radio nerd . . . luckily in the house I grew up in they came in decent on the pattern backside.
When they put up the new array in the mid 90's the signal toward the west improved much.
at the link below (called New York), if you look, real close at the ground, you can see where the original 4 tower in-line array was.
New York
I grew up on 1010 WINS . . . they went RnR, Sept of 1954, NYC's first RnR station and hired Alan Freed from Cleveland. Again it was called WINSLAND.
If you ever want to checkout great books . . . on NYC RnR radio . . .
BIG BEAT HEAT, by John J. Jackson (story of Alan Freed)
ROCKING AMERICA, by Rick Sklar
COUSIN BRUCIE (My Life in Rock 'n' Roll Radio), by Bruce Morrow and Laura Baudo
and while not a radio person he had a number of RnR dance TV shows in NYC,
SH-BOOM (The Explosion of Rock 'N' Roll), by Clay Cole
In NYC, 1010 WINS 1950's direct competition in the mid 50's was right next to them . . . 1050 WMGM (home of Peter Tripp and YOUR HITS OF THE WEEK . . . Peter would count down the Top 40 songs every night (M-F) starting at 5PM) . . . then 570 WMCA slowly came into play with RnR.
Everything was OK. until 770 WABC came along in the early 60's playing RnR.
WMGM stopped playing RnR in 1962
WINS stopped in 1965
WOR-FM came on the scene in 1966 with RnR
WNEW-FM too with its "underground" music at the time
things were slowly changing for AM radio.
THIS IS 1010 WINS GIVE US 22 MINUITES WILL GIVE YOU THE WORLD!
GOOD MORNING, ITS 74 DEGREES IN MIDTOWN
WINS NEWSTIME 10:10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEW YORK CITY IS SAYING THAT .......
As I've said many times . . . 1010 WINS is CLASS! When they played RnR and when they went ALL-NEWS. Even with ALL-NEWS, I still think they are cool.
When I got a studio tour by Lee Harris (morning anchor at the time) in the late 80's it was a thrill for me.
When I hung out afew times (staying out of the way) at their transmitter site when they changed the 4 tower in-line array to a 4 tower parallelogram . . . the people working at the site were super nice, more than willing to answer questions.
The transmitter engineer was, real nice too. I'd be in the NYC area visiting family and would try to at least hit the transmitter site once to talk too if I had the time. Would not stay long but talk abit.
As I said before, riding around in the early 60's on the backside of the WINS pattern in Northern NJ was "kind of funny" if you were a radio nerd . . . luckily in the house I grew up in they came in decent on the pattern backside.
When they put up the new array in the mid 90's the signal toward the west improved much.
at the link below (called New York), if you look, real close at the ground, you can see where the original 4 tower in-line array was.
New York
I grew up on 1010 WINS . . . they went RnR, Sept of 1954, NYC's first RnR station and hired Alan Freed from Cleveland. Again it was called WINSLAND.
If you ever want to checkout great books . . . on NYC RnR radio . . .
BIG BEAT HEAT, by John J. Jackson (story of Alan Freed)
ROCKING AMERICA, by Rick Sklar
COUSIN BRUCIE (My Life in Rock 'n' Roll Radio), by Bruce Morrow and Laura Baudo
and while not a radio person he had a number of RnR dance TV shows in NYC,
SH-BOOM (The Explosion of Rock 'N' Roll), by Clay Cole
In NYC, 1010 WINS 1950's direct competition in the mid 50's was right next to them . . . 1050 WMGM (home of Peter Tripp and YOUR HITS OF THE WEEK . . . Peter would count down the Top 40 songs every night (M-F) starting at 5PM) . . . then 570 WMCA slowly came into play with RnR.
Everything was OK. until 770 WABC came along in the early 60's playing RnR.
WMGM stopped playing RnR in 1962
WINS stopped in 1965
WOR-FM came on the scene in 1966 with RnR
WNEW-FM too with its "underground" music at the time
things were slowly changing for AM radio.
THIS IS 1010 WINS GIVE US 22 MINUITES WILL GIVE YOU THE WORLD!
GOOD MORNING, ITS 74 DEGREES IN MIDTOWN
WINS NEWSTIME 10:10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEW YORK CITY IS SAYING THAT .......
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