WKAJ
radio station in Saint Johnsville, New York
WKAJ (1120 AM) is a radio station licensed to and transmitting from Saint Johnsville, New York, United States. The station had aired Westwood Oneʼs Real Country format up until late 2020, then switched to Good Time Oldies produced by Westwood One. WKAJ currently simulcasts sister station WCSS's news/talk format. WKAJ is owned by Cranesville Block Company, Inc. When it first signed on, it featured a classic hits format with the slogan "The Bigfoot".
WKAJ 1120 along with its translator W250CX (97.9 FM) and WCSS 1490 with its translator W295CZ (106.9 FM) currently airs a news/talk format.
In August 2024, it was announced that Mariano and Wilhelmina Simms’ Simms Broadcasting will acquire Cranesville Block Company’s four stations and four translators in Upstate New York for $600,000. The stations included in the sale are: 96.5 WYVS Speculator, 930 WIZR/102.9 W275BS Johnstown and 104.3 W282CU Northville along with 1490 WCSS/106.9 W295CZ Amsterdam and 1120 WKAJ/97.9 W250CX Saint Johnsville.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WKAJ” as radio station in Saint Johnsville, New York. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Saint Johnsville, New York. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17090160. Authority coordinates are 43.000, -74.691. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1120, 2020, 1490 and 2024.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “WKAJ”, its source revision and the description used here.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “WKAJ” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.