WVEL
WVEL is a daytimer radio station with a city of license of Pekin, Illinois, United States, and serving the Peoria, Illinois, area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and licensed to Radio License Holding CBC, LLC, which purchased the station from Townsquare Media. It airs a Gospel music format and is known as "Central Illinois' Christian Voice." It is still a daytime-only station to protect WRVA and XEMR-AM from interference to their clear-channel stations.
WVEL was originally WSIV and signed on the air on 21 April 1946, increasing its power to 1000 watts on 1948. The station was assigned the WVEL call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 2, 1979.
