WINZ (AM)
| City of license | Miami, Florida |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | South Florida metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM 940 The Sports Animal |
| Frequency | 940 kHz |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 50,000 watts daytime 10,000 watts nighttime Currently operating at 25,000 watts during nighttime under a special temporary authority |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 51977 |
| Callsign meaning | WINZ = Wins |
| Former callsigns | WRFX (2002-2004) WIVK (9/1988-11/1988) |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio Miami Dolphins |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications |
| Sister stations | WBGG, WHYI, WIOD, WMGE, WMIA, WMIB |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 940winz.com |
WINZ, AM 940 The Sports Animal is a sports talk radio station that serves Miami-Fort Lauderdale. The stations airs primarily syndicated programming. It daytime signal reaches as far north as Ft. Pierce and as far west as Ft. Myers and Naples and as far south as The Bahamas. The station has managed to score ratings in the Ft. Myers-Naples[1] and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton[2] radio markets despite its transmitter being far away, over 100 miles away in the case of Ft. Myers-Naples, and having no promotion.
The station is directional to the southeast to protect a clear channel Class-A station allocation in Montreal (former occupant CINW fell silent in February 2010; however, the allocation still exists by international treaty), as well as clear channel Class-A station XEQ-AM in Mexico City.
During the early 1960s, WINZ competed with top 40 powerhouses WQAM and WFUN, with personalities including Bruce Morrow, who was heard there during 1960 but returned to his home town of New York and began a long run at WABC the following year.
WINZ's former talk-host lineup included Nova M hosts Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller of Jones Radio Networks, Lionel and Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio, and Don Imus in the morning from 6:00 AM until 9:00 AM.
WINZ is affiliated with CBS for hourly network newscasts and includes twice hourly updates from The Weather Channel.
The station signed on in its liberal talk format at 12:06 p.m. on July 12, 2004. Al Franken's program was the first in the new format. Before this station adopted liberal talk as its format, it was 940 Fox Sports Radio, an all-sports station that competed with WQAM and WAFN. On April 3, 2009, the format shifted back to sports, and is now known as "The Sports Animal".
Currently, WINZ is owned by Clear Channel Communications, the largest U.S. radio owner. Clear Channel purchased the station from West Palm Beach-based media entrepreneur Bud Paxson. WINZ management changed in early 2007 from Peter Bolger to Ken Charles. New weekend shows included Clout with Richard Greene and 7 Days in America with new Air America Radio network co-owner Mark Green (no relation). Other local shows have been dropped recently, such as Radioactive Politics and The Nicole Sandler Show.
In 2008, Miami Heat (National Basketball Association) games moved back to WINZ from WIOD. One game will be simulcast monthly on 103.5 The Beat.[3] WINZ previously carried Heat games from 1993 to 1996.
On April 2, 2009, it was reported on Radio-Info.com that the station would switch to sports the following day, making it the sixth sports station in Miami;[4] this follows Clear Channel's trend of changing liberal talk formats (regardless of success) to its own Fox Sports network. Since the change of format, ratings for WINZ have dropped from a 1.0 in the Spring of 2009 to a 0.3 in April, a 06 in May, and a 0.5 in June, behind the sports station WAXY and WQAM.[5]
The National Football League's Miami Dolphins announced on March 1, 2010, that it had entered an agreement with Clear Channel that would make WINZ and WBGG-FM flagship stations of the Dolphins Radio Network for the next six years.[6]
On November 14, 2010, the Dolphins and Heat played on the same day at the same time. Per contract, WINZ aired the Dolphins game while another station had the Heat broadcast. Clear Channel then threatened to sue the Heat for breach of contract.[citation needed] Sometime after that, the Heat switched its flagship station to competing station WAXY.
Most of the stations lineup is fed in from national feeds of FOX Sports Radio and ESPN Radio
Weekday Schedule
1-5 AM: JT The Brick Show on FOX Sports Radio
5-6 AM: Sportscenter AM by ESPN Radio
6-10 AM: Mike and Mike in the Morning by ESPN Radio
10 AM-Noon: Jeff DeForest
Noon-3PM: Jim Rome
3-5PM: Dan Patrick Show by FOX Sports Radio
5-7 PM: The Finsiders with Jesse Aguilar
7-10 PM: Petros and Money by FOX Sports Radio
10 PM-1AM: FOX Sports Radio
[edit] References
- ^ radioandrecords.com
- ^ radioandrecords.com
- ^ http://www.nba.com/heat/news/contract_extension_940winz.html heat.com Press Release
- ^ "Air America is out – sports will be in at Miami's WINZ". Radio-Info.com. April 2, 2009. http://www.radio-info.com/news/air-america-is-out-sports-will-be-in-at-miamis-winz.
- ^ http://www.stationratings.com/ratings.asp?market=429
- ^ http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/miami-dolphins-broadcast-games-fm-and-am-radio-and-enter-integrated-media-business
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WINZ
- Radio-Locator Information on WINZ
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WINZ
- Google Maps Satellite View of WINZ's Transmit Facility and Towers
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