Original Call Letters: WLOF 

Originally Licensed: Oct 26, 1940 

Original City of License: Orlando 

Original Frequency: 1230 

Origin of Call Letters: Slogan; We Love Orlando Florida

Original Power: 5,000 Watts 

Original Location: Angebilt Hotel 

Original Format: Block Programming

History Of  Call Letters and Formats:

  In 2004 we had a chance to visit the old WLOF studios. See photos here

                                                                                         
  
       
A "QSL"  card
 

Donn R. Colee, Sr.-1950-Air Talent/Commercial Manager/1952- Secretary/Treasurer-Hazelwood Broadcasting/1954-Vice President/ General  Manager-Mid-Florida Radio Corp.

Johnny Gee  (Jim Ivey)-1964-1967-Clarke Broadcasting, Corp.   Biography    In Memory

  Johnny Gee on WLOF 1966    courtesy of Dick Camnitz 

Dick Shane-(Dick Camnitz)1966-1970, 1973-Clarke Broadcasting, Corp.
Dick is the moderator and creator of: 
   CFL Broadcast History Discussion                                 

Pat O'Day (Jerry Thompson)-Mornings 
Pat was the "mind" behind some of the best stories to come out of Orlando radio. One time he caused a traffic jam when he jokingly announced that Lake Eola was filled with chocolate milk. He got chewed out by the school superintendents for telling all high school girls to go to class wearing culottes. And he wrinkled the uptight noses of the Federal Communications Commission's officials when he hired radio jinglers to sing the required Emergency Broadcasting System's test message.
photo courtesy of Dennis Snyder

Allen Shades

Charlie, the Channel 95 Girl (Sandra Miller)

Sean King tells about his day as a "male model"
"In 1972 I was working for Pat O'Day (he was Jerry Thompson off the air) at WLOF, Orlando, East Central Florida's top rocker at the time. Burt Reynolds had just appeared as a partially nude centerfold for Cosmopolitan Magazine and Pat wanted to do a "take-off" on the idea. So, he asked me if I would be a model for the photo which was to be a double page in a local newspaper known as "The Watcher". He said we'd cover the private parts with 45s or an LP or two. I agreed and the one-month on-air promotion began. The picture was to appear in April. However, two weeks into the promotion, the sale of the station was finalized and the new owners heard the promotion. They ordered it cancelled immediately as they felt it was in bad taste and might affect business (at least one major sponsor had threatened to cancel). Pat called an emergency staff meeting to pick our brains for a solution. After about a half an hour he came up with the answer himself. He asked me if I had any of those nude baby pictures that parents often take of  their infants and I remembered that I did.
We cleared the idea with the new management, informed the wary sponsors, kept the on-air promotion going unchanged and arranged with the newspaper publisher to have the newspaper on the stands April 1st, "April Fool's Day". So, after a month of all the air personalities telling their audiences that I would appear nude in an upcoming edition of "The Watcher", that's exactly what I did. Only the picture was one of me when I was less than a year old. It was a great "April Fool's" joke. The newspaper sold out in hours, the promotion was a tremendous success and the new owners were pleased. Pat O'Day saved the day. 

The caption reads;
"Cosmopolitan's Helen Brown may be culturally refined, but WLOF is on the "ahead" and never on the "behind".   APRIL FOOL -  WLOF
Sean King 12 to 3pm-WLOF  950 KC On your dial"


   Sean King talks about his "nude" centerfold on the air in 1974.

Rudy Pylant 

Don Smith-(Bobby Church) (Glen Meadows)   Biography

"The Janitor" (Warren Miller)-6PM-Midnight 

Brandy Alexander-"Dateless and Desperate"-Brandy, (not her real name) is now married, has two children, lives in the West Palm Beach area and has a PH.D. in psychology. Thanks to Dave Edwards for this info.

Barbara Barri-Sean King tells us about Barbara "...she was the first female jock at WLOF, I think it was 1976. She was my one and only "discovery". I found her working as a waitress in a night club and, thought she had a good voice & introduced her into radio at WCKS-AM 860, Cocoa Beach. She went on to be a top country jock in Los Angeles for 15 years and is currently doing voice work in New York" For more on Barbara see www.barbarabarri.com

Bob Bacon-From Ray Slaton; "..."The Morning Mayor" ..., in real life Stan Barrett. I want to say 1963 or 64. He left WLOF and went to WMFJ-AM 1450 to do mornings there."  And this from Dennis Snyder; "...one of the things he used to say was "Breakfast with Bacon" - he worked mornings right about that time, before Pat O'Day.

Debbie Aubrey

Bob Barnes   Biography

William Barry

David Bartholomew

Luther C. Beasley

Burt Brown

Peggy Camnitz

1968-Boys with the noise
Pete Porter, Bill Vermillion, 
Johnny Sutton,
  Pat O'Day &  Dick Shane        
 photo courtesy of Dick Camnitz

Jim Gantner

Tom Gaut

Jan Giles

Rick Davis

Tom Clark (Wayne Trout)  "The Body Beautiful"  Biography  In Memory 

WLOF Pen courtesy of Dennis Snyder

May Mulligan   

Bob Nadeau -Midnight-6AM

"Cowboy": Chris O’Neal (Chris Wolf)

Bruce Wayne

JoNell Patterson

Alex Stone (Alex Louis Grassi, Jr.)    In Memory

...And in the newsroom 

Terry Lee (Terrence McIver Ledbetter)-1964-Clarke Broadcasting, Corp.-In an email from Steve Rutledge;"...Terry (Lee) really was the guy who got the dedicated news operation off the ground at WLOF and set the tone for the rest of us.  He was a real digger and showman too."

Steve Rutledge    Biography 
 
   1974 Newscast

Allen Moore

Dan Tressler

Bill Bauman-News Director  Biography

Peggy Curry

Carl "Buzz" Hallberg

Other Programs On WLOF

Wolfman Jack-syndicated. But there is a Central Florida Connection. In 1991 Wolfman Jack would open a club in the Old Towne section of Kissimmee. It was originally called "Little Darlin's Rock and Roll Palace" becoming "Wolfman Jack's Rock and Roll Palace"

Casey Kasem-"American Top 40" syndicated   

                                                          Dick Shane (Camnitz)

         
Pat O'Day gets a haircut  12-10-65     courtesy of Dave Edwards

Ral Donner makes an appearance for WLOF in 1959
photo courtesy of Greg Galloway

Bill Vermillion at the console
Courtesy Larry Vee