KRJW (1240 AM, "1240 The Winner") is a

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broadcasting a

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format. It is licensed to

Altamont, Oregon Altamont is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States, southeast of Klamath Falls. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 19,257. All mailing addresses in Altamont are Klamath Falls ...

, and serves

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, and the surrounding areas. The station is currently owned by Wynne Broadcasting, LLC, and licensed to Cove Road Publishing, LLC. It is currently affiliated with

CBS Sports Radio CBS Sports Radio is a sports radio network that debuted with hourly sports news updates on September 4, 2012, and with 24/7 programming on January 2, 2013. CBS Sports Radio is owned by Paramount Global and distributed by Westwood One. Programmin ...

. It is the Klamath Basin's home for the

Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Con ...

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basketball and

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football. It also broadcasts high school games featuring

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with program and sports director Randy Adams on the call.

History

KRJW was granted their FCC license on February 6, 2014 and hit the air soon afterward as a way to fill the void left when rival station KLAD-AM acquired the full-time broadcast affiliation rights of

ESPN Radio ESPN Radio, which is alternately platform-agnostically branded as ESPN Audio, is an American sports radio network and extension of the ESPN television network. It was launched on January 1, 1992, under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN". ...

in 2014. Sister station KFLS-AM had been an affiliate of ESPN Radio on a part-time basis for a number of years before KLAD-AM acquired the full-time rights. KRJW immediately became an affiliate of

and the new full-time home of

Jim Rome James Phillip Rome (born October 14, 1964) is an American sports radio host. His talk show, ''The Jim Rome Show'', is syndicated by CBS Sports Radio. Broadcasting from a studio near Los Angeles, California, Rome hosts ''The Jim Rome Show'' o ...

, who had previous been featured on its previous station. The station would soon begin airing

basketball and

football and basketball shortly after signing on the air and moving over from KFLS-AM. In 2016, the station became the new home station for

Vikings sports with Randy Adams on the call.

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