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Overview
Licensed to Pekin, Illinois, WVEL is an urban gospel station broadcasting on 1140 AM. On air it goes by “WVEL-AM.” It began broadcasting in 1946.
At a glance
- Call sign
- WVEL
- Frequency
- 1140 AM
- Format
- Urban gospel
- On-air name
- WVEL-AM
- City of license
- Pekin, IL
- Market
- Peoria-Bloomington, IL
- Licensee
- Radio License Holding CBC, LLC
- Power
- 5,000 watts (day); 3,200 watts (critical hours)
- Station class
- D
- First on air
- 1946
- FCC facility ID
- 68623
- Website
- wvel.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Radio License Holding CBC, LLC holds the station’s FCC license. It has used the WVEL call letters since January 1979.
Its website is wvel.com. Pekin is in the Peoria-Bloomington, IL market, where local newspapers include Pekin Daily Times. Its sister stations are WFYR, WGLO, WIXO and WZPW.
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WVEL at a glance
- Frequency
- 1140 AM
- On air as
- WVEL-AM
- Format
- Urban gospel
- Licensed to
- Pekin, IL
- Market
- Peoria-Bloomington, IL
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