An Inside Look of a Major NYC Cluster (CBS)

Dear friends,

I apologize for not posting in a while. I have been very busy with settling in to the spring semester of my freshman year of college. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit the studios of CBS Radio's six-station NYC cluster. It was very interesting to see how a large media company operates locally. I visited the studios of 1010 WINS (NYC's all-news leader), 660 The Fan (WFAN, the sports leader and home of the future 2012 Super Bowl champion, the NY Giants, hint...hint), WCBS 880 (the other CBS-owned all-news station), and the three FM's, CBS FM (classic hits and oldies), WXRK (92.3 NOW, which is now top-40, used to be K-Rock), and WWFS (Fresh 102.7, home of Jim and Kim in the morning). I also met so many interesting people such as Joe Causi and Dan Taylor from CBS FM and Ben Mevorach, news director for 1010 WINS. So, all in all, I had the pleasure of seeing all of these classic stations which happen to all be under one roof.

The cluster was set up very nicely with each station defining its own identity with its own space. 1010 WINS was in one section while WFAN was on another. The same goes for the other four stations.

Of course, this post wouldn't be complete without thanking the man who invited me and toured me around the CBS mecca, Lee Harris. Mr. Harris has been a long-time anchor at 1010 WINS (18 years) and is a Hofstra alum. Did I mention that he is anchoring the overnight shift on Sunday night on WNEW in DC (The New CBS All-News Station, See Post Entitled "CBS is Officially The All-News Leader") and also runs his own web development business on the side? I can't thank him enough for kindly inviting me to hang out at the CBS cluster for an hour today!!

If you would like more information on my trip, feel free to email me at aaron.waisler@gmail.com or comment on this post and I will try my best to reply.

Until next time, KEEP RADIO ALIVE!!