WINS (AM)

WINS (AM), known on-air as "1010 WINS", is an all-news radio station in New York City at 1010 kHz, owned by Infinity Broadcasting. Its transmitters are located in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

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The station first went on the air as WGBS in 1924, named after and broadcasting from its owner, Gimbel's department store. It was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1932, and by 1943 had adopted its present callsign (named after Hearst's International News Service) and frequency.

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In 1954 under owner Crosley Broadcasting WINS became one of the first stations to play rock and roll, and featured famous and influential disk jockeys such as Alan Freed and Murray (the K) Kaufman.

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In 1965 under owner Westinghouse it changed format, becoming one of the first all-news stations in the United States. As with other Westinghouse-owned news stations, WINS had a distinctive teletype sound effect playing in the background (some other stations later dropped this, but WINS has kept it) and the slogan, "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."

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WINS has consistently ranked as one of the highest-rated stations in the New York City area, usually beating its all-news competitor WCBS-AM (although both are now owned by Infinity).

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