WDBO-FM 92.3 Orlando

WDBO-FM 92.3
Orlando

Original Call Letters: WDBO

Originally Licensed: Apr 24, 1948

Original City of License: Orlando

Original Frequency: 92.3

Origin of Call Letters: See WDBO-AM 580

Original Power: 34,000 watts

Original Location: 30 S. Ivanhoe Blvd. E.

Original Format: Beautiful Music

Network Affiliation(s):

Owner(s):	1948-Orlando Broadcasting Co., Inc.
	1957-Cherry Broadcasting Station of Providence, Rhode Island
	1963-The Outlet Company
	1982-Katz Broadcasting (Purchased WDBO-AM/FM for $9.5 million)
	1986-New City Communications
	1997-Cox Broadcasting

History Of Call Letters and Formats:	WDBO-1952-Beautiful Music
	WWKA-1983-Country "K92FM"

WDBO-FM History
From Brian Douglas; "Just a couple of comments on WDBO-FM... originally, the station simulcast WDBO-AM 100%. I know that lasted well into the 1970's, if not longer. There was no separate FM programming, so WDBO AM/FM were MOR/full-service during this time. The station transmitted in mono.

WDBO-FM "Takeover"
Dutch Schaeffer - Ron Kocher - Lon Wagner- On December 21, 1982, three announcers took the station "hostage" for more than three hours in protest of the format change from easy listening to country that would take away their jobs. From the front page of the Orlando Sentinel dated December 22, 1982;
"...About 6:15 p.m., announcers Gary "Dutch" Schaeffer, 41, and Ron Kocher, 23, locked themselves in the WDBO-FM control booth and told the radio audience they had taken it over in protest of the change, scheduled for January." "Three hours and 20 minutes later, the station management and the announcers, who had been joined by broadcaster Lon Wagner, 33, worked out an agreement." "Morton Downey, Jr., host of WDBO-AM's "Nightline" talk show, fielded calls from listeners as he took on the role of mediator between the FM announcers and the new management led by (Robert "Bob") Longwell."

Florence Times, Muscle Shoals, La

Names In WDBO-FM History
William S. Cherry Jr.-1957-1963-Chairman of the Board-Cherry Broadcasting Station of Providence, Rhode Island *In Memory*
Joseph Sinclair-1963-Chairman of the Board-Outlet Company
David Shurtleff-1963-Vice President-Broadcast Division-Outlet Company
Carl Hallberg-1963-Vice President/General Manager/Commercial Manager-Outlet Company In Memory
Bill Taylor-1963-Program Director-Outlet Company
Fred Bradshaw-1963-News Director-Outlet Company
Chalmers Stromberg-1963-Chief Engineer-Outlet Company
Corey Meyer-1971-Operations Manager-Outlet Company
Frank Scharf-1971-Production Manager-Outlet Company
Gary "Dutch" Schaffer (Gary J. Schaffer)-1982-Music Director-Katz Broadcasting Gary passed away in St. Augustine in 2013. In Memory
Ron Kocher
Gary Anstaett
Lon Wagner
Robert "Bob" Longwell
Dennis Moore
John Weyrick
New Era At WDBO-FM
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WDBO General Manager Carl Hallberg (right) watches as Chief Engineer Corey Meyer program the Gates-SP-19 automated system in 1971.
photos courtesy of John Gordon

Dennis Moore
courtesy of John Gordon

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