WINS' Stan Brooks, At 85, Still Getting The Big Stories

From David Hinckley, New York Daily News

Not too many reporters who covered the Empire State Building shooting last Friday are older than the building itself, which opened in 1931. 

 Stan Brooks is. He’s 85. 

 “And he was the first WINS reporter on the scene,” says WINS news and program director Ben Mevorach. “He works like folks half his age.” 

 “A story like that makes it a great day to be a reporter,” says Brooks. “I’ve said for years, it’s like having a seat on the 50-yard line of history.” 

 He’s been narrating the story for WINS listeners since Labor Day weekend 1962, 50 years ago, and 21/2 years before the station switched from rock ’n’ roll to all-news, with Brooks as the first news director. 

 “When they told me about all-news,” recalls Brooks, “I said, ‘What’s that?’ And when we did it, everyone was asking me, ‘What happens when you run out of news?’ 

 “Fortunately, we never have.”

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