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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".
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 ...
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."
WCBS 880 AM, one of New York's leading news radio channels for nearly 60 years, will be replaced with ESPN New York on Aug. 26, as 1010 WINS becomes the main radio station for real-time news ...
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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 first song on "FM New" was "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock. "101.9 FM New" featured a live morning show that began at 6:00 a.m. on July 18, hosted by Paul Cavalconte (who had been with 101.9 since 1998), with Jeff McKay (a New York traffic reporter formerly of Shadow Traffic and WINS) providing traffic reports and weather updates (until the ...
Before becoming a reporter, Nicolini made her living as a model. She tried out unsuccessfully to become the official live-action model for Vampirella in 2001. She had bit parts in four feature films and six TV shows, including HBO's Sex and the City and NBC's Law & Order. From 2004-2011, Nicolini was at WPIX as the weekday morning traffic reporter.