About Q107

Since November 2004 we’ve been playing the music from the best decade, EVER! Well, of course we are a little biased. We play ALL of the 80s pop/rock. Music from hair bands, punk rock, sappy slow songs, we play all of it. We even have a few country crossover tunes for good measure. See, we just don’t believe in giving you a watered down version of the music you remember from the 80s. We’ll leave that to the other commercial radio stations. We specially created Q107 to sound like radio stations did during the decade with the best music.

Signal

Q107 is what is referred to as a microbroadcasting station. We have a low-powered signal on 107.5 in Peoria. Why do we have a low-powered signal? Well, according to the FCC, unless we have millions of dollars to buy a tower and building, and pay huge salaries in the process, we simply cannot be a huge blowtorch of a radio station. Plus, we have no interest in making this a business because then we’d have to resort to playing a narrow variety of 80s music like all of the other stations.

Call Letters

Q107 unofficially uses the call letters WKQA. WKQA is a station that existed on the Peoria airwaves for over 9 years, at 104.9 FM in Pekin/Peoria. They were sometimes a Top-40 station. At other times they were what’s know as Hot AC. WKQA was the ‘anti-KZ93′. On 93.3 in Peoria, KZ93 was one of the most popular radio stations in downstate Illinois. However, they refused to play quite a few songs that Top-40 stations in other markets were playing. They would often hold back on playing songs that were even on Billboard’s top 10 charts. It wasn’t fair to the listener, so WKQA and WBNQ in Bloomington/Normal played some of those songs.