0:27 - All news, all the time. This is 92.3 WINS-FM. You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world. 0:36 - New York wants to know, and we know it. This is 92.3 WINS-FM. You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.
"Your dial is set to 1010 WINS New York, Group W Westinghouse serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. (Jingle starts) All News All the time, this is WINS. You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world"
As of 1969, WINS' ID was read by anchors (and, in a Mayoral debate aired on Oct. 23, 1969, by City Hall reporter Doug Edelson) thus: "This is WINS, New York, Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting, for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut." They only had one 'beep', every hour on the hour (:00:00) - ~785 Hz sine, :00.5 sec. (500ms) duration. Wonder when they added the BOH (:30:00) tone, and when it was switched to ~1000 - 1050 Hz and :01 sec. duration. Also, the business of 20-minute "wheels" where each "wheel" had a different anchor (three per hour) was a year old at this point. I still wonder who was the V/O of these liners behind which the first 13 or so seconds of Ib Glindemann's "Construction Site" was played.
@@ApartmentKing66 Yes, and it become Country 97 on July 1, 1987 a few hours before the demise of WHN. Now, it's WQHT (Hot 97), with an urban contemporary format. At 3:04, Robert Vaughan mentions the next day being Martin Luther King Day. It wasn't a federal holiday then. I'm posting on Martin Luther King Day (1-18-21).
I certainly remember the WMTR sign off. They were trying to make the vocal group sound like the Pied Pipers. This was followed by Bless This House instead of the National Anthem as the station’s owners of the time were Fundamentalist Christians.
They were trying to have them sound like a late '30s/'40s vocal group...much like the Glenn Miller group or The Pied Pipers. The original owners of WMTR, I believe, were born again Christians and saw Rock and roll as the devil's music. Instead of the National Anthem, the sign off was followed by a moment of prayer (Bless This House).
This was until 1973 (this version sounds like that because I remember Bless This House immediately follows and it doesn't here) when the then-current owners, Drexel Hill Associates, did away with that...sister FM station WDHA likewise became a Rock station that same year.
0:27 - All news, all the time. This is 92.3 WINS-FM. You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.
0:36 - New York wants to know, and we know it. This is 92.3 WINS-FM. You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.
"Your dial is set to 1010 WINS New York, Group W Westinghouse serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. (Jingle starts) All News All the time, this is WINS. You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world"
As of 1969, WINS' ID was read by anchors (and, in a Mayoral debate aired on Oct. 23, 1969, by City Hall reporter Doug Edelson) thus:
"This is WINS, New York, Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting, for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."
They only had one 'beep', every hour on the hour (:00:00) - ~785 Hz sine, :00.5 sec. (500ms) duration.
Wonder when they added the BOH (:30:00) tone, and when it was switched to ~1000 - 1050 Hz and :01 sec. duration.
Also, the business of 20-minute "wheels" where each "wheel" had a different anchor (three per hour) was a year old at this point. I still wonder who was the V/O of these liners behind which the first 13 or so seconds of Ib Glindemann's "Construction Site" was played.
Yeah, I remember WNWS was on of the many experimental formats tried from
the old WNBC-FM from 1973 on.
By 1980, it would be WYNY.
@@ApartmentKing66 Yes, and it become Country 97 on July 1, 1987 a few hours before the demise of WHN. Now, it's WQHT (Hot 97), with an urban contemporary format. At 3:04, Robert Vaughan mentions the next day being Martin Luther King Day. It wasn't a federal holiday then. I'm posting on Martin Luther King Day (1-18-21).
Wow, I remember that WMTR signoff from when I used to live there in the early 1980s.
I certainly remember the WMTR sign off. They were trying to make the vocal group sound like the Pied Pipers. This was followed by Bless This House instead of the National Anthem as the station’s owners of the time were Fundamentalist Christians.
Does anyone know who, at :20, gave out the 1010 WINS ID? (Besides the V/O of the two sounders.)
Typical AM signal, fade and bounce......I remember KYW, 1976.
Awesome! Does anybody know what was the signing off music that we hear at the end!? Thank you!
They were trying to have them sound like a late '30s/'40s vocal group...much like the Glenn Miller group or The Pied Pipers. The original owners of WMTR, I believe, were born again Christians and saw Rock and roll as the devil's music. Instead of the National Anthem, the sign off was followed by a moment of prayer (Bless This House).
This was until 1973 (this version sounds like that because I remember Bless This House immediately follows and it doesn't here) when the then-current owners, Drexel Hill Associates, did away with that...sister FM station WDHA likewise became a Rock station that same year.
So what happen with WNWS?
Wayne Wright it quietly switched to WYNY at the stroke of midnight, on January 1, 1977.
2019: (1979)