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WPIA
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City of license Eureka, Illinois
Broadcast area Peoria metropolitan area
Branding "98.5 Kiss-FM"
Slogan "Peoria's #1 Hit Music Station"
Frequency 98.5 MHz
First air date August 22, 1988 (1988-08-22)
Format Contemporary Hit Radio
ERP 6000 watts
HAAT 100 meters (330 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 28317
Transmitter coordinates 40°42′57.1″N 89°27′50.3″W / 40.715861°N 89.463972°W / 40.715861; -89.463972 (WPIA tower) (NAD83)
Callsign meaning Peoria (also Peoria airport code)
Former callsigns WRVP (2000–2004)
WPPY (August 1999 – July 2000)
WEEK-FM (1997–1999)
WIVR (1994–1997)
WCRI (1988–1994)[1]
Owner Mike Rea
(Advanced Media Partners, LLC)
Sister stations WHPI, WWCT, WZPN
Webcast Listen Live
Website www.kisspeoria.com

WPIA (98.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Eureka, Illinois, between Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois. The station is owned and operated by Advanced Media Partners, LLC.

History [link]

The station originally went on the air as WCRI in 1989. It was owned by Woodford County Radio, Inc. WCRI programmed local news, farm news including grain and livestock prices, high school and Eureka College sports as well as a blend of 40s, 50s, and 60s music. Local librarians created and hosted a weekly five minute program "Queries, Quips and Quotes." The daily talk show "Woodford County Today" focused on community and area events. Students from the local grade school read the daily lunch menu. The station operated at 3,000 watts; the transmitter and antenna were located about a mile north of Eureka. The studios were at 103 North Major, across the street from the courthouse to the west and Eureka Hospital to the south. The station was sold in 1994 to the owner of WPOK, Pontiac, and his business partners.

After a stint as WIVR, "98.5 The River", in the mid-1990s, the station was bought by the owners of WEEK-TV, who turned it into "Oldies 98.5" with the callsign WEEK-FM, the only radio station owned by Granite Broadcasting. After 93.3 became WPBG ("Big Oldies 93.3"), putting it in direct competition with WEEK-FM, 98.5's ratings slid and Granite sold the radio station.

From around 1999 to 2004, the station was called WPPY, "98.5 The Party", first with the callsign WPPY, then adding a simulcast on 101.1 WRVP (now WHPI), then swapping callsigns with 101.1 to become WRVP itself.

In March 2004, the station's callsign was changed to WPIA and it became Christian rock station "Hope 98.5". Then-owners Regent Communications (now the current owner of rival WZPW) sold the station and 101.1 (now WHPI) to Independence Media Holdings, who also bought 96.5 (now WZPN) from another company and combined it with 98.5 to form "96.5 & 98.5 Kiss-FM" starting in September 2006. On July 2, 2007, 96.5 stopped simulcasting 98.5.[2]

Independence Media Holdings sold WPIA, along with its other 3 Peoria-area stations (96.5 WZPN Farmington, 99.9 WWCT Bartonville and 101.1 WHPI Glasford) to Michael S. Rea's Advanced Media Partners on November 15, 2010.[3]

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External links [link]


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PLAYLIST TIME:

That Day

Tomorrow's coming 'round
A hair-pin curve in the road
She's got a run in her stocking
And she's missing the heel of her shoe
Got up this morning rolled out of bed
I spilled a diet coke
Called my mother said, "Hi"
What I meant to say was, "Why is your life a joke?"
Then, I went down to that ugly bar and
I clicked my heels three times just like you said
And I climbed that road to your empty house
The anticipation was a turn on
But you let me down
'Coz, I stood on that empty street alone
I said, "I'm ready for my close up now, Mr. Demille"
I waited for the light, but it never shone
Well I wonder what you do with that expensive piece of land
That overlooks a billion years of history
I have a sneaking suspicion, you will never understand
Hey maybe I'll see you down by the Rocky and Bullwinkle
And we can talk to that charlatan psychic
And she can paint a prettier picture of your future
'Coz that day in my life, that day in my life
I dreamt tomorrow, had a prettier face
I dreamt tomorrow, would have better things to say
Than, "You look like shit, what's your problem, bitch?
You're legs feel like sandpaper, you can't do anything right"
'Coz that day, never should have taken place
'Coz this day, in my life still cannot explain
Why I listened in the first place to you?
Oh yeah, something else
I hope one day you call up your father
And you have the guts to tell him, how he hurt you
And he made you hurt another

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