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1010 WINS remains the oldest all-news AM radio station in the United States, providing local, traffic and weather news for millions of New Yorkers since April 1965. Audacy introduced a simulcast ...
WINS (1010 kHz) is a commercial, all-news AM radio station licensed to New York, New York owned by Audacy, Inc. The station brands itself "1010 WINS", with its call sign phonetically pronounced as "wins".
Pete Tauriello is a veteran traffic anchor on 1010 WINS, WKXW and several other radio stations in the New York City area including a few years on the Z-100 "Morning Zoo." [1] He has also served as a traffic reporter on WWOR-TV and more recently on WNBC-TV's "Today In New York."
The station launched as WMCA-FM at 2:30 p.m. on December 25, 1948, transmitting from atop the Chanin Building.It operated daily between 3 and 9 pm, duplicating programming that originally aired on its AM counterpart, WMCA; both stations were co-owned by former New York state senator Nathan Straus Jr. [4] The FM station was not a profitable success, and in December 1949 officials announced the ...
In Spring 2017, Nicolini returned to WPIX, this time again, doing traffic for the station's weekday morning newscast. As of October 2017, Jill can be heard reporting traffic on 1010AM WINS Radio. She formerly dated Anthony Cumia of the Opie and Anthony Show. The couple ended their relationship in September 2008.
All-news has for years been a top-rated radio format in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities, but as big-city traffic worsens and people work longer hours that increase the urgency of planning their day ahead, the focus of such stations has increasingly turned to traffic and to weather, updated every 10 minutes.
The new format was part of Westinghouse's decision to put all-news formats on its large market AM stations. Five months earlier the company had converted WINS in New York City from a Top 40 format to all-news. [36] A third conversion was made three years later at another Westinghouse-owned station, KFWB in Los Angeles. [37]
(WINS and WINS-FM in New York do not carry the newscasts but make use of voicers and actualities from CBS News Radio.) CBS News Radio offers hourly News-on-the-Hour newscasts (available in three- and six-minute versions) and a one-minute newscast at 31 minutes past the hour. They are sent to member stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.