WENY (AM)
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| Broadcast area | Elmira, New York |
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| Branding | News Radio 1230 |
| Frequency | 1230 (kHz) |
| First air date | 1932 |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Callsign meaning | W Elmira, New York |
| Owner | WS Media LLC |
| Sister stations | WCBA, WENI, WENI-FM, WENY-FM, WGMM, WYDC, WJKP |
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 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 frequency to 1230 kHz, where it remains today.
Sister station WENY-FM was launched in the 1960s.
In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s WENY-AM was a full service operation with an extensive air staff and local news department and by far the dominant radio station in the Elmira market.
In the 1970s, as a Top 40 music station, WENY adopted the slogan "We're the One," a play on the Orleans song "Still The One," which was popular at the time and was used in promotions for ABC television, of which then-sister station WENY-TV 36 was an affiliate. The members of Orleans also were natives of the Elmira and Ithaca areas.
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