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    April 17, 2025 7:29 am  #1

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    Still Making Headlines: WINS Celebrates 60 Yrs. As An All-News Station

    A major milestone for a famous set of NYC radio call letters, one of the longest continuing all-news stations in North America (and if I'm not mistaken, the format on which 680 News Radio here is based.) It survives even as its one-time competitor and later sister station, WCBS-AM, did not. 

    1010 WINS celebrates 60th anniversary of all-news radio

     

    April 17, 2025 8:28 am  #2

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    Re: Still Making Headlines: WINS Celebrates 60 Yrs. As An All-News Station

    Still with the news theme, but on television, April 16, 1962 saw the introduction of Walter Cronkite as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. A job he would hold for the next 19 years. He replaced Douglas Edwards who had been the anchor since March 1947.

     

     

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