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WCBS 880 VS WINS 92.3 news coverage

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sox fan matt

Since the NYC area is the #1 market in the country, does WINS 92.3 focus on the city more with retrospect of news, education and leave WCBS 88 to cover the suburbs, LI and national events? I'm always been intrigued because it's the only market with two all semi all news stations. (the Mets are on WCBS 88 as I recall)

I'm in Dallas/Fort Worth, hence the question.
 
sox fan matt said:
Since the NYC area is the #1 market in the country, does WINS 92.3 focus on the city more with retrospect of news, education and leave WCBS 88 to cover the suburbs, LI and national events? I'm always been intrigued because it's the only market with two all semi all news stations. (the Mets are on WCBS 88 as I recall)

I'm in Dallas/Fort Worth, hence the question.
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When I worked in New York radio, that's how it was.

WINS was for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. WCBS was for Staten Island, New Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island.

The analogy was that WCBS was for people who read the Times, and WINS was for people who read the Post.

It may be different now.
 
sox fan matt said:
Since the NYC area is the #1 market in the country, does WINS 92.3 focus on the city more with retrospect of news, education and leave WCBS 88 to cover the suburbs, LI and national events? I'm always been intrigued because it's the only market with two all semi all news stations. (the Mets are on WCBS 88 as I recall)
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Traditionally WCBS has had a suburban focus, motivated by the WINS signal which is directional and misses a good part of the New Jersey counties that are in the Metro Survey Area. WINS (AM) has a much better signal in Manhattan and the boroughs due to the directional pattern which pushes much more power over that area than WCBS does.

Now that WINS has an FM, that situation that motivated a news focus that matched the signal is lessened.
 
Presumably, now that they have an integrated reporting staff, there is no functional difference in the topics or regions covered. I however do not listen to 1010 WINS or WCBS 880 enough to provide evidence.
 
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