Television: Viva la WINS!

Among the 46 AM & FM radio stations in New York City's metropolitan area, no two are more surly toward each other than WINS, which gets top place in pulse ratings by a rock-'n'-roll diet of the top 40 popular tunes, and WMGM, which (scorning the cornier corn) stresses news and public services and pays for such square taste by lagging at fifth place in the ratings. One morning last week, in the heat of the competition, WMGM fell for an embarrassing hoax that gave WINS a chance to josh its rival all the rest of the day.

WMGM set itself up...

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