WINS (AM)
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| City | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Broadcast area | New York metropolitan area |
| Branding | 1010 WINS (pronounced "ten-ten wins") |
| Frequency |
1010 kHz (also on HD Radio) (also on HD Radio via WNEW-FM-HD3) |
| First air date | 1924 |
| Format | News |
| Language(s) | English |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 25451 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°48′14.00″N 74°06′24.00″W / 40.8038889°N 74.1066667°W |
| Callsign meaning |
World International News Service (reflecting past ownership by the company owned by Hearst) |
| Former callsigns | WGBS (1924–1934) |
| Former frequencies | 950 kHz (1924–1927) 860 kHz (1927–1930) 600 kHz (1930–1931) 1180 kHz (1931–1941) |
| Affiliations |
ABC News Radio Westwood One News Bloomberg Radio |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBMP, WCBS, WCBS-FM, WCBS-TV, WFAN, WFAN-FM, WLNY-TV, WNEW-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | newyork |
WINS (1010 kHz), known on-air as "10-10 Wins", is a radio station in New York City, owned by CBS Radio. WINS's studios are in the combined CBS Radio facility in the Hudson Square area of Manhattan, and transmitting towers in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
WINS is the oldest all-news radio station in the United States, broadcasting in that format continuously since 1965.
WINS can be heard in the HD Radio format on both its own frequency and at WNEW-FM's HD-3 feed.
The station began broadcasting first during 1924 on 950 kHz as WGBS, named after and broadcasting from its owner, Gimbels department store. It moved to 860 kHz sometime around 1927, to 600 around 1930, settling on 1180 around 1931. The station was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1932, and it adopted its present callsign (named after Hearst's International News Service) the same year, effective January 15.
WINS relocated from the Hotel Lincoln to the WINS Building, 114 East 58th Street, June 19, 1932.
It changed its frequency from 1180 to 1000 on March 29, 1941 as part of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement and then eventually to 1010 on October 30, 1943. The Cincinnati-based Crosley Broadcasting Corporation announced its purchase of the station from Hearst in 1945, though it would be over a year before Crosley would take control of WINS, in July 1946.
Crosley sold the station to J. Elroy McCaw's Gotham Broadcasting Corporation in 1953, and soon after WINS became one of the first stations in the United States to play rock and roll music. Alan Freed was WINS earliest famous personality as disc jockey. Freed was followed years later by Murray "the K" Kaufman. Sports broadcaster Les Keiter, a latter-day member of the first generation of legends in that field, served as sports director for a period in the 1950s. Keiter is perhaps best remembered for his recreations of San Francisco (formerly New York) Giants baseball games, which WINS carried in 1958 to keep disconnected Giants fans in touch with their team, who moved west along with the Brooklyn Dodgers the previous year.
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