WELE-FM 105.9
Deland
Original
Call Letters: WOOO
Original City of License: Deland
Originally Licensed: Jul
10, 1967
Origin
Of Call Letters: Location;
DeLand
Florida
Power: 100,000
watts
Original Format: Country
Owner(s): 1967-Tolun
Advertising
1976-Joe
Gratz
1986-American
Media,
Inc.($7.5
million)
1997-Chancellor
Media
-Clear
Channel
2000-Infinity Radio
(Viacom-CBS)
2006-CBS
Radio
History
Of Call Letters and Formats: WOOO-1967-
WDLF-1967-Country
WELE-1976-Country
"The Big Wheel"
WMGG-1986-Adult
Contemporary
WOCL-1986-Oldies
"Class 105.9"
WOCL-1988-50's
to 70's Oldies "Cool
105.9"
WOCL-1999-WOCL- 1999-Jammin'
Oldies "Power
105.9"
WOCL-2000-Alternative
"O-Rock
105-9"
WOCL-2008-Greatest
Hits "Orland's
Greatest Hits"
The studios and tower of WELE on
highway 17-92 in Deland
History
of WELE
WELE-FM began as WOOO-FM;
Mr. Brian Tolby, former owner of WSBB-AM 1230,
New Smyrna Beach, fills us in on the history of WDLF. "...That
station was to be a Winter Park FM,
WABR(-AM 1440), owned by the Petersons who also owned Peterson
Outdoor Advertising in Orange & Seminole counties, who were sitting on
an FM permit. I filed to move it to Deland and it went on the air in l965. I
sold that station in l976 to Joe Gratz who owned WELE
AM (1380) and he changed the calls to WELE-FM..."
In 1986 after the purchase by American
Media it
began broadcasting from a 1,650-foot tower in Orange City and operated at
100,000 watts, enabling it to reach from Daytona Beach to Tampa.
WELE
Personalities
K.P.
(Ken) Manning-1982-Biography
Bob
"King Bird" King
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