WCJW

WCJW

City	Warsaw, New York
Broadcast area	Western New York / Rochester radio market^[1]
Branding	WNY's CJ Country
Slogan	Today's Favorites & The Legends
Frequency	1140 kHz
Translator(s)	See below
First air date	May 16, 1973
Format	Traditional Country
Power	8,000 watts day only (2,300 W Critical Hours)
Class	D
Facility ID	37858
Callsign meaning	W Catherine & John Weeks
Affiliations	Fox News Radio, MRN, PRN
Owner	Lloyd Lane, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wcjw.com

WCJW (1140 AM, "CJ Country") is a radio station in western New York state. Its AM facility broadcasts at 8,000 watts on 1140 kHz from studios in Warsaw, New York during daytime hours only; however, five co-owned FM translators provide full-time service. The station's format is centered on country music (using a "traditional country" approach featuring a roughly equal mix of contemporary and classic country hits) with a strong emphasis on local news, weather, high school sports, and agriculture. Other popular weekday features include WCJW's daily Tradio program and weekend coverage of NASCAR races. National news service is provided by Fox News Radio. In contrast to many other small-market radio stations, WCJW maintains a local programming staff and carries satellite-delivered music ("CMT After Midnite") only during overnight hours, which were added in 2008 and 2009.^[2] Weekend syndicated programs heard on WCJW include When Radio Was and Rise Up Country.

Coverage area

WCJW is the only AM station licensed in Wyoming County and the only broadcast station in the county with a local studio (WLKK is licensed to Wethersfield in Wyoming County, but has its main studios in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst). In addition to the county seat of Warsaw, targeted communities include Perry, Silver Springs, Castile, Gainesville, Arcade, and Attica, along with the Livingston County villages of Geneseo, Mount Morris, Nunda, Avon and Caledonia, and the Genesee County municipalities of Batavia and Le Roy. Although WCJW's 2 mV/m primary service contour extends to downtown Rochester and its 0.5 mV/m secondary contour encompasses all of Rochester and Buffalo,^[3] the station focuses on the rural communities of the Genesee Valley region.

Translators

In June 2008, WCJW began simulcasting its programming on FM Translator W279BO in Warsaw, a 250 watt facility collocated with the studio and AM transmitter, and in November 2008, W288BZ began operating on 105.5 MHz from the Genesee County public safety tower in Batavia. In January 2009, W265BX began serving southern Wyoming County and Livingston County from the hilltop east of Nunda, and in November 2011, WCJW's fourth translator W282BQ commenced service to Le Roy, northern Livingston County, and southwestern Monroe County, including the Interstate 390 corridor from Mount Morris to Henrietta. In April 2015, W285EZ began operation at the WLKK tower site in Wethersfield, employing a directional pattern that serves Arcade, Yorkshire, Delevan and Bliss. All five translators transmit in stereo and employ the Radio Data System.

Broadcast translators of WCJW
Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W265BX	100.9	Nunda, New York	250	D	FCC
W279BO	103.7	Warsaw, New York	250	D	FCC
W282BQ	104.3	Avon, New York	110	D	FCC
W285EZ	104.9	Arcade, New York	90	D	FCC
W288BZ	105.5	Batavia, New York	250	D	FCC

History

WCJW began broadcasting on May 16, 1973 as a 1 kW daytime facility under the ownership of broadcast engineer John Weeks, who had spent much of his career on the engineering staff of WJR in Detroit. Weeks envisioned a family-oriented operation, with his wife Catherine and daughters Carolyn and Jill filling early staff positions at the station. WCJW's original music format took an easy listening / MOR approach, later dubbed "The Heart of Western New York".

Upon Weeks' retirement in September 1984, the station was purchased by Warsaw resident Lloyd Lane and a group of local investors. A format change to country music in 1986 brought increased support from listeners in this rural region of upstate New York with a local economy based primarily on dairy farming. In 1996, The station was awarded a New York State Broadcasters Association award for the best Small Market play by play. Seth Fenton and Tom LaDelfa were recognized for their work covering local High School Football. At the time, due to its daytime only status, WCJW taped Friday night games for play back on Saturday morning, and broadcast live games in the afternoon. In 1999, the station's nominal power was raised to 2,500 watts, and in 2014 the power was increased again to 8,000 watts.

Prior to adding the FM translators in 2008, WCJW was a daytime-only station.

Awards

In 2007, WCJW was recognized by New Music Weekly magazine as the Country Radio Station of the Year at the New Music Awards.^[4]

Personalities

Jimi Jamm
Steve Weber
Kelli Carson
Greg Ireland
Chris Taylor
Lloyd Lane
Alan Kabel

References

↑
↑ "Tower Site of the Week August 11, 2006". Fybush.com. 2006-08-11.
↑ WCJW Coverage Map from Radio-Locator.com
↑ "2007 New Music Awards". New Music Weekly. 2007-11-10.

External links

WCJW Website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WCJW

Radio-Locator Information on WCJW

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WCJW

Radio stations in the Rochester, New York region and western Finger Lakes

By AM frequency	850 950 990 1040 1140 1180 1280 1310 1370 1460 1490 1550 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.1 89.3 89.5 89.7 90.1 90.5 91.5 92.5 93.3 94.1 95.1 95.7 96.5 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.9 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.3 102.3 102.7 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.9 105.5 105.7 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.3 107.7

By callsign	W265BX W282BQ W288BZ WAIO WAYO-LP WBEE-FM WBER WBSU WBTA WBZA WCGR WCJW WCMF-FM WDCX WDKX WDVI WEOS WEPL-LP WFKL WRFZ-LP WGMC WGSU WHAM WHIC WHTK WHWS-LP WITR WKDL-FM WKEL WJZR WKGS WLGZ-FM WLKK WMHN WNBL WOKR WPXY-FM WRMM-FM WROC WRSB WRUR-FM WUUF WVOR WXXI WXXI-FM WYLF WYSL WZNE WZNY WZXV

Defunct	WDRE (1330 AM)

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga See also List of radio stations in New York

Country radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WBBI – Endwell WBBS Fulton WBEE-FM – Rochester WBGK – Newport Village WBKT – Norwich WBKX – Fredonia WBNR – Beacon WBRV-FM – Boonville WBUG – Fort Plain WCJW – Warsaw WCKR – Hornell WDBY – Patterson WDLA-FM – Walton WDLC – Port Jervis WDNB – Jeffersonville WDOS – Oneonta WFRG – Utica WFRY – Watertown WGNA-FM – Albany WHUG – Jamestown WHWK – Binghamton WINR – Binghamton WJVC – Center Moriches WKBE – Warrensburg WKLI-FM – Albany WKPQ – Hornell WKXP – Kingston WLFK – Gouverneur WLLG – Lowville WLNA – Peekskill WLSV – Wellsville WNBL – South Bristol Township WNCQ-FM – Canton WNSH – Newark/New York¹ WOKN – Southport WOLF-FM - Baldwinsville WPDM – Potsdam WPGI – Horseheads WPIG – Olean WQNY – Ithaca WRCE – Watkins Glen WRWB-FM – Ellenville WRWD-FM – Highland WUUF – Sodus WVNV – Malone WVTT – Portville WXRL – Lancaster WYRK – Buffalo WZKZ – Alfred

¹ = Although WNSH is licensed to Newark, NJ, it also serves the New York City area, with it's studios in New York City.

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

Daytime-Only radio stations in New York

Stations	WBBF - Buffalo WCGR - Canandaigua WCJW - Warsaw WDCD - Albany WHLI - Hempstead WJIP - Ellenville WLNL - Horseheads WNYG - Medford WRCK - Remsen WSCP - Sandy Creek-Pulaski WSFW - Seneca Falls WTBQ - Warwick WTHE - Mineola WTOR - Youngstown WTWK - Plattsburgh WUFO - Amherst WWLE - Cornwall

Defunct	WPUT - Brewster WXKW - Watervliet

See also: Clear channel radio stations and Why AM Radio Stations Must Reduce Power, Change Operations, or Cease Operations at Night

Coordinates: 42°43′34″N 78°06′43″W / 42.72611°N 78.11194°W / 42.72611; -78.11194

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