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| City | Kankakee, Illinois |
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| Broadcast area | Southern Chicago market |
| Branding | The Valley |
| Frequency | 92.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1986-01-21 (as WMHG) |
| Format | Oldies |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 100 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 62360 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°7′22.00″N 87°53′35.00″W / 41.1227778°N 87.8930556°W |
| Former callsigns | WMHG (1986–1986) WLRT (1986–1998) WBRO (1998–1998) WKIF (1998-2013) |
| Owner | Milner Broadcasting Enterprises, LLC |
| Sister stations | WFAV, WYUR, WIVR |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wvli927.com |
WVLI (92.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. The station is licensed to Kankakee, Illinois, United States. During its days as WKIF, it also broadcast Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Notre Dame Football and other sporting events. WVLI is owned by Milner Broadcasting Enterprises, LLC.
The station went on the air in January 1986 under the call letters of WMHG with a country format. The callsign was changed to WLRT the same year.
In early 1998, Big City Radio Group took over WCBR-FM in Arlington Heights and WLRT in Kankakee (also on 92.7), shortly after acquiring WLRT, the call letters were changed to WBRO. The two stations stunted with a simulcast of their Los Angeles sister station "Y 107", which had a modern rock format.
In November 1998, WCBR and WBRO launched their new official format, CHR as "92.7 KISS FM." with the first song being "Kiss" by Prince. This would be Chicago's first true CHR station in many years, coinciding with a nationwide boom in the Top-40 format, and proved to be quite successful, even with the two stations' weak signals. In early 1999, the calls were changed to WKIE and WKIF. In summer 1999 Big City purchased a third station, WDEK 92.5 in Dekalb, IL, which had a locally programmed CHR format at the time and began simulcasting it with WKIE and WKIF as a trimulcast. Not long after, the moniker was adjusted to "92 KISS FM"
On January 12, 2001, Clear Channel Communications flipped its full-signal WUBT from rhythmic oldies to CHR as WKSC-FM "Kiss 103.5". At that time, they issued a cease and desist order to Big City Radio insisting they stop using the "Kiss FM" moniker. "92 KISS-FM" continued until January 26, 2001 when the three signals became "Energy 92-7&5", with a format consisting entirely of dance music. The airstaff and voiceover talent Sean Caldwell remained intact.
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