WINS (AM)
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 as 1010 WINS, with the call sign phonetically pronounced as "wins". WINS's studios are located in the combined Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan, and its transmitter is located in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
For the FM station simulcasting WINS (AM), see WINS-FM.
- New York, New York
- United States
- New York, New York
- United States
1010 kHz
1010 WINS
- Audacy, Inc.
- (Audacy License, LLC, as Debtor-in-Possession)
1924
WGBS (1924–1934)
- 950 kHz (1924–1927)
- 860 kHz (1927–1930)
- 600 kHz (1930–1931)
- 1180 kHz (1931–1941)
- 1000 kHz (1941–1944)[1]
named for onetime owner Hearst Newspapers' International News Service
25451
B
50,000 watts
92.3 WINS-FM (New York)
Listen live (via Audacy)
WINS is the oldest continuously operating all-news station in the United States, having adopted the format on April 19, 1965, under former owner Westinghouse Broadcasting, and is one of two all-news stations in the New York City market owned by Audacy, with WCBS (880 AM) being the other. The station's nighttime signal, via ionosphere skywave propagation, reaches much of the eastern half of North America.
WINS formerly broadcast in the HD Radio (hybrid) format.[3] As of October 27, 2022, WINS is simulcasting on WINS-FM (92.3 FM).[4]