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New York's favorite AM radio station that gives us the world if we give them 22 minutes, 1010 WINS, is 40 years old. Newsday asks 1010 WINS about the famous line "Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world," because "the station does three segments per hour, each one the same length" (it was probably a marketing hook). What's fascinating is that 1010 WINS was the first major all-news radio station in the country, and the blackout helped solidify its position as a news leader, as they were able to broadcast by hooking up a phone to the station transmitter. Fun fact: 1010 WINS was actually started in April, but they wanted to make their birthday on 10/10...however, Columbus Day forced them to have a party today - with Rudy Giuliani as the most important newsmaker in the past 40 years. We wonder if their 44th birthday will be a big one, as that's 22 + 22.
Do you listen to 1010 WINS? It happens to be what Gothamist relies on to wake us up as we can barely open our eyes. We'll stay under the cover and listen to traffic, transit and weather on the ones and be comforted by the clicking typewriters.
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More importantly, are they really the most listened to radio station in the nation?
rudy giuliani is the most important newsmaker of the last 40 years? i think that's stretching things a lot.
The number is based on total number impressions. And since new york has more people than anyone, and people listen to it very frequently to traffic and weather, several times a day, the numbers go way up. So the numbers are the highest in the country.
Also, the newsmaker poll was put on the website and printed in Newsday, so that demographic was who voted most.
I love the typewriter sound. It's so funny considering hardly any newsrooms have a bay of people typing furiously anymore.
Rock ON, 1010!
I interviewed for a job there after college and I asked about the news ticker sound. They said it used to be real and they replaced it with a three-second loop when they got rid of the tickers from their newsroom. They turned off the loop for one weekend once and got flooded with complaints. People dig it.
As a lifelong Tri-State resident, I always smile at the scene in Goodfellas—in which Henry Hill learns that the Lufthansa heist is successful—because it features the 1010 top-of-the-news-cycle sounder. Similarly, if I'm in the shower when that sounder comes on the radio, I expect to hear that news snippet.
one word: BBC
They're teletype machines! It's a common sonic image for news. It's the same kind of thing Walter Winchell did for his radio show. The clackety-clack gives urgency, immediacy, and a sense of sitting at the focus of a nexus. Take a listen to the musical themes for NBC "Nightly News" theme, composed by John Williams, or the BBC's "World Today," and you'll hear similar tonal and repetitive echoes of it.
I can't listen to 1010 WINS in the morning--I like to be awakened slowly, and the loud voices of the 1010 WINS announcers are way too jarring. I prefer the soothing, dulcet tones of the people on WNYC.
I used to wake up to 1010 WINS but switched to WNYC recently. But I think I'll be switching back because I never wake up with the news of the day at WNYC whereas 1010 always lets me know what's happening as I drift back from slumberland. BBC would be great if there was a 24 hour BBC station instead of just bits and pieces.