Mass media in Peoria, Illinois

FM

• 88.5 WBNH Peoria (Christian)
• 89.9 WCBU Peoria (NPR/talk)
• 90.7 WAZU Peoria (Hip-hop)
• 91.5 WCIC Pekin (Christian AC)
• 92.3 WZPW Peoria (Rhythmic CHR)
• 93.3 WPBG Peoria (Classic hits)
• 94.3 WPMJ Chillicothe (Catholic/EWTN/Covenant Network)
• 94.9 WAAG Galesburg (Country)
• 95.5 WGLO Pekin (Classic rock)
• 96.5 WHPI Farmington (Contemporary hit radio)
• 97.3 WFYR Elmwood (Country)
• 98.5 WPIA Eureka (Contemporary hit radio)
• 99.9 WWCT Bartonville (Adult album alternative)
• 100.5 WRVY-FM Henry (Country)
• 101.1 WZPN Glasford (Sports/ESPN)
• 101.5 WBNQ Bloomington (Contemporary hit radio)
• 102.3 WKZF Morton (Rhythmic classic hits)
• 102.9 WWKJ-LP Peoria
• 103.1 WXEC-LP Eureka (Alternative rock/Eureka College)
• 103.3 WLSE Canton (LifeTalk Radio)
• 104.9 WXCL Pekin (Country)
• 105.7 WIXO Peoria (Active rock)
• 106.3 WPNV-LP Peoria (Urban AC)
• 106.9 WSWT Peoria (Adult contemporary)
• 107.9 WPZA Canton (Christian music)

AM

• 1020 WPEO Peoria (Christian)*
• 1140 WVEL Pekin (Urban gospel)*
• 1290 WIRL Peoria (Conservative talk)
• 1350 WVBP Peoria (Urban adult contemporary)
• 1470 WMBD Peoria (Talk radio)
• 1560 WBYS Canton (Talk radio)

Radio

• 1580 WWXL (AM) Peoria (1947–?) — sister to 94.1 WWXL-FM; in 1948, was on the air on 1580, with a construction permit for 1590;^[1] gone by 1959^[2]
• 88.5 WECU Peoria (1990s) — on air around 1989;^[3] time-shared frequency with WBNH Pekin; eventually went off air, allowing WBNH to go full-time
• 93.3 WEEK-FM Peoria (c. 1948) — sister to 1350 WEEK (AM); not yet on air at start of 1948;^[1] already gone by 1959;^[2] frequency later used by WMBD-FM (93.3 WPBG); callsign later used by 98.5 Eureka
• 94.1 WWXL-FM Peoria (c. 1948) — sister to 1580 WWXL (AM); not yet on air at start of 1948;^[1] already gone by 1959;^[2] now unusable: adjacent 94.3 later allocated to Chillicothe (now WPMJ)
• 95.7 WIRL-FM Peoria (c. 1948) — not yet on air at start of 1948;^[1] already gone by 1959;^[2] now unusable: 95.3 Pekin allocation moved to adjacent 95.5 in 1980s with WGLO
• 96.5 WMMJ-FM Peoria (c. 1948) — construction permit as of 1948;^[1] already gone by 1959;^[2] 96.5 allocated to nearby Farmington in 1990s (now WHPI)
• 100.9 WBOD Canton (c. 1989) — not yet on air in 1989;^[3] likely never launched: adjacent 101.1 allocated to nearby Glasford in 1990s (now WZPN)

Low-power FM

• 103.1 WEUR-LP Eureka (c. 2001) — Likely never on air: Construction permit requested in August 2000 and issued 2001-06-27 to Eureka College; permit expired 2002-12-27 without license.^[4]
• 106.3 Eureka (c. 2014) — Likely never on air: Construction permit requested in November 2013 and issued in January 2014 to Faith Baptist Temple in Eureka;^[5] permit cancelled July 27, 2015 without license or callsign.^[5][6]

Peoria area low-power TV

• 16 W16AZ Lacon (c. 1994) — construction permit for Kelly Communications; expired in 1996 without being licensed^[7]
• 67 W67CW Peoria (1995–2005?) — M.C. Productions, 1101 S. "Mathew" St. and 1923 W. Lincoln Ave.,^[8] 61605. Construction permit granted 1993-09-28; licensed 1995-06-29; application to move to channel 65 dismissed 1997-10-09; renewal on channel 67 on 1997-12-01; license expired 2005-12-01; deleted 2007-10-15.^[9]

Bloomington TV

• 15 WBLN Bloomington (1955?–1959?) — sold by Cecil W. Roberts to Worth S. Rough's WBLN TV Inc. on 13 July 1955;^[3] off the air but still holding permit in 1959;^[2] empty channel allocation moved to Champaign in 1967 for WICD; callsign reused by channel 43 from 1982 start until it became WYZZ-TV

Peoria TV in LaSalle-Peru

Until cable TV was common in the late 1970s, LaSalle/Peru received primarily Peoria television using television translators.

By March 1965, LaSalle, Spring Valley, and Peru already had CATV systems owned by The Television Transmission Company.^[10]

• 35 WEEQ LaSalle (1957–1970s?) — LaSalle's only full-power allocation, channel 35, started as WEEQ, a co-owned satellite of WEEK-TV Peoria (which was on 43 Peoria then on 25 Peoria);^[2][11] it was on the air as early as November 1957.^[11] Channel allocation used by WWTO since 1 December 1986.^[3]
• 71 W71AE (1964–1979?) — This carried co-owned 31 WMBD-TV Peoria. License granted 15 November 1962;^[12] A picture of the 485-foot (148 m) Rohn tower and its 16-bay antenna is shown in a Rohn advertisement in the 1 July 1963 issue of Broadcasting.^[13] Started around 1964.^[11] Renewed November 1971.^[14] WMBD-TV still shown as having "1 trans." in 1975 Yearbook.^{[page needed]} Guessed as deleted in 1979 in W9WI translator listing.^[15]
• 78 W78AC (1963–1964?) — This carried 19 WTVH Peoria (now WHOI) in the early 1960s. Listed in September 1962 TV Guide.^[11] License granted 18 February 1963.^[16] It was no longer in TV Guide by the end of 1964.^[11]