Western New York's CJ Country

WCJW ( “CJ Country”) is a radio station in western New York state. Its AM facility broadcasts at 2500 watts on 1140 kHz from studios in Warsaw, New York during daytime hours only; however, four co-owned FM translators provide fulltime service. A construction permit was recently granted to allow a daytime power increase to 8000 watts. The station’s format is centered around country music 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.

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 simulcasts WBEN from Buffalo). 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 into a portion of Monroe County and its 0.5 mV/m secondary contour encompasses the entire city of Rochester,[2] the station directs its service towards the rural communities of the Genesee Valley region.