WENY (AM)

WENY (1230 AM) is a radio station in the Elmira-Corning market of New York state. It broadcasts at 1000 watts day and night on 1230 kHz from studios in Corning, New York. It is a talk radio station that airs local sports and a 3 hour morning local talk show with host Frank Acomb. It is currently simulcast with WENI-AM (formerly WCLI-AM 1450 AM).

It was the first station licensed in Chemung County and the first in the market.

The station signed on in 1932 as WESG, broadcasting on 1200 KHz from a studio on Market Street in Elmira, which remains its city of license. Its call letters stood for "Elmira Star-Gazette," the local newspaper and one of its owners. Earlier, the station had been known as WGBF, Glens Falls, New York. The change to WESG, Elmira, New York, came in 1932 "by authority of the Department of Commerce."

At some point after 1940, when WESG cut ties with Ithaca station WEAI, the station changed its call letters to WENY, which stood for "Elmira, New York." It also changed frequencies to 1230 kHz, where it remains today.