WDOQ History 
Thanks to Marc Tyll for this history of WDOQ.
Daytona’s 100,000 watt hot rockin’, flame throwin‘, non-stop party station, top 40 powerhouse “Q 102” began it’s infancy quite the opposite as Daytona’s sleepy-time beautiful music station known as “Stereo 102”. A new 2,000 foot tower was planned at Barberville, located in Western Volusia County. With 100,000 watts at this height from the Barberville location, the new WDOQ had a predicted coverage which would have saturated Orlando, Ocala, Saint Augustine, Gainesville and all of Central Florida. Unfortunately, before the new tower construction could get underway, Patten sold WDOQ to Baltimore, Maryland based Abell Communications Corporation. Abell Communications was a radio subsidiary of The A. S. Abell Publishing Company which owned the Baltimore Sun Daily newspaper, ABC affiliate WMAR-TV 2 and WMAR-FM Baltimore, WNVZ-FM Norfolk, Virginia, WCRJ-AM-FM Jacksonville and WDOQ-FM Daytona Beach-Orlando. Abell had no desire to construct such a large tower in Barberville, mainly because of the cost factor involved, so, instead, a new 600 foot tower was constructed near Deland with a power increase to 100,000 watts which improved the signal in Orlando although it wasn’t quite a city grade contour. WDOQ continued to play the “Hottest Hits” becoming ever more popular even though " Y 100" was now on the scene creating some very stiff competition among listeners and advertisers along the World’s Most Famous Beach. Abell sold its entire radio group, retaining its one TV station and publishing enterprises, to its radio executive management headed by James Seymour and Stuart Frankel, forming S & F Communications, Inc. Upon completion of  the sale, Frankel immediately promoted Alex to Vice President of Programming for the S & F radio group although Alex remained headquartered in Daytona. As general manager, Alex was replaced with West Palm Beach radio executive Doug Aurbach. Several months later, Alex left the company to purchase WJXQ-FM in Jackson, Michigan. Aurbach completely reformatted " Q 102", giving it new call letters and new format. The hit music that had been so popular for so many years was replaced with Tran-Star’s Satellite adult contemporary music network. The call letters were changed to WCFI-FM 101.9. 

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