WPOI
 
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| City | St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Tampa Bay Area |
| Branding |
Hot 101.5 Hot Remixed 101.5 HD2 (HD2) |
| Slogan | All the Hits |
| Frequency | 101.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | July 1, 1961 (as WGNB) |
| Format |
Top 40/CHR HD2: Dance Top 40 |
| ERP | 97,100 watts |
| HAAT | 470 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 66013 |
| Callsign meaning | POInt, referencing the frequency's former branding |
| Former callsigns | WGNB (1961-1974) WKES (1974-1997) WILV (1997-1998) WFJO (1998-2002) |
| Owner |
Cox Communications (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Hot 101.5 Listen Live Hot Remixed HD2 |
| Website |
hot1015tampabay.com hotremixed.com (HD2) |
WPOI, "Hot 101.5", is an FM radio station in Tampa, Florida broadcasting a CHR (Top 40) format.
The station's HD-2 channel is known as "Hot Remixed 101.5", and airs a Dance format.
The station's main rival is WFLZ.
Owned by Cox Radio, its studios are located in St. Petersburg (the city of license), and the transmitter site is in Riverview.
The station started out in 1961 as WGNB. In 1974 it became WKES, which was a religious station operated by the Moody Bible Institute, from studios at the Moody-affiliated Keswick Christian School in Seminole.
In 1997, in a three way swap, Paxson Broadcasting acquired Lakeland Christian station WCIE 91.1 from the Carpenter's Home Church, who in turn swapped the station with Moody's WKES. WKES would soon move to 91.1 FM; after a brief simulcast period, the WKES call sign would move to 91.1 while 101.5 would become WILV, broadcasting a "Love Songs" format branded as "Love 101.5".
WILV was a failure, and in 1998, Paxson Communications was bought out by Clear Channel Communications. With that, on September 19, 1998, the format changed to Rhythmic oldies as WFJO, "Jo 101.5". In 1999, Cox Radio purchased WFJO along with several other stations.
On December 15, 2001, the station flipped to All-1980s as "The New 101-5 The Point". The first song as "The Point" was "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds. The station was modeled after KHPT in Houston, Texas that had launched the previous year. The call letters became WPOI on January 14, 2002. The original tagline was "The Best of the '80s and More", which included late-1970s and early-1990s tracks, along with 1980s product.
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