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WDBO-FM History 
From Brian Douglass; "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

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   

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