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Do people visit 1010wins.com

jo
jo
edited November -1 in Brooklyn and Beyond
Hi Everyone,

I'm a college student major in Internet Communication , working on a paper about the website of 1010 WINS. My question is that with all the popular websits: Yahoo, Goggle etc. Will people go to 1010wins.com to get information about local news, traffic and weather?

Please take a minute and let me know the following:

-Do you or someone you know visit 1010wins.com
-If yes, what section do they usually go?

Thank you for your time~~

Comments

  • pitu
    pitu
    people here seem to go to NY1's website, or other local tv news outlets -- at least that's what they post back about
  • meredithb
    meredithb
    No. Never have.
  • new2hood
    new2hood
    I love 1010 wins, and listen to it every morning, even though I don't drive to work. Whenever something local happens (like the USAir plane crashing into the Hudson), I do visit their website, along w/the local TV network's site to see latest coverage. Also visit it for school closings, snow info, that kind of thing.

    Long live John Montone!
  • hatemail
    hatemail
    I thought 1010 wins was a lotto game.
  • jo
    jo
    It seems that 1010wins.com isn't one of your first choices for local new……
    Bye the way, how often do you listen to its online radio?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I think online radio is the dumbest thing. Why waste bandwidth on something you can get from a $9 clock radio?

    but I listen to 1010 wins on the radio all the time....
  • pitu
    pitu
    Never listen to 1010wins online radio, although I do listen to online radio.
    Do listen to it (and AM 880) when in a car.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    I never listen to it at home. I don't own a car. On the rare occasions when I rent a car for within NYC (less than once a year), I'll flip back and forth between traffic on the "8s" on 880 and traffic on the "1s" on 1010 while driving.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    whynot_31 wrote: I think online radio is the dumbest thing. Why waste bandwidth on something you can get from a $9 clock radio?
    .
    because this way i'm not limited to local stations. right now, for instance, i'm listening to live broadcast from the new orleans jazz fest on WWOZ out of NOLA. tonight, i might switch to the bluegrass/old time show from WUNC out of Chapel Hill. if i miss a widely distributed npr show on one station, i can always find it on another when i want to hear it.

    also, the speakers we have connected to our computer (in a different room), while not up to whyfi's standards, are better than a $9 alarm clock's.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I wish to add:

    "to listen to a local AM radio station, such as 1010 WINS" to my above post.

    ...for far away stations it makes sense.
  • prodigalson
    prodigalson
    1010 Wins was the first Rock & Roll am station that I can remember back in the late 50s/early 60s. I still remember its old jingle, ''1010 Wins, Neewww Yooork''. Other stations like WMCA and WABC imitated its ways and became very popular.

    Any old folks here remember?
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Suddenly all that comes to mind is this...



  • flonflon
    flonflon
    1010WINS, the radio station, is OK for fast early-a.m. news -- like "Does the world (or subway system) still exist?"

    1010WINS, the website, sux. It's an organizational/esthetic mess, is over-heavy on NJ/CT news, and misses a lot of NYC-relevant coverage.
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Interesting case of this question today, and 1010wins.com (as a web component of the news station) receives low marks for lack of the breaking news coverage it touts IMO.

    This incident of a police involved shooting at the Utica subway station in Crown Heights shut down the Utica station and caused delays in the train service.

    I heard the news event reported several times at about 5:45pm on 1010WINS itself as I was out in my car. So they had a fresh scoop as the story was developing (it actually happened over an hour earlier).

    Good so far.

    Until I got home at 6p and went to their site to see info.

    Nope. Nothing. Zip.

    The web sites of the Fox, ABC etc. local affiliates already had at least basic blurbs posted, clearly marked as developing, more details to come etc.

    And 1010WINS.com? Still nothing at the moment, well over 90 minutes after the other guys posted their initial blurbs.

    It may just be one isolated, anecdotal case, who knows...but it does not appear to me that the web site is concurrently linked with what's currently updated on the radio station, or even some time reasonably thereafter.

    So if this case today is any indication, I would say no.

    1010WINS.com was not a good source for latest updates or breaking stories, as it seems that even a late initial report of what they've been covering on-air for nearly 2 hours has yet to be posted to their web site.

    Perhaps next time their web site will be able to keep current with what's on-air, but not today.
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Follow-up: story was finally posted on 1010WINS.com at 8:05pm:
    http://www.1010wins.com/Police--Cop-Shoots-Man-in-B-klyn-after-Screwdriver/4306350
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