WDOQ-FM 101.9
Daytona Beach

Original Call Letters: WMFJ
Original City of License: Daytona Beach
Originally Licensed: November 1, 1967
Origin of Call Letters: The call letters WMFJ-FM were chosen to compliment co-owned WMFJ-AM 1450 
                                  The originally desired call letters WMFB - World’s Most Famous Beach were unavailable in 1967
Original Power: 4,100 watts
Original Format: Beautiful Music
Network Affiliation(s): RKO Radio Network, United Stations Radio Network

Owner(s): 1967-Walter-Weeks Broadcasting Company (Jim Walter and Robert M. Weeks)
               1980-Patten Communications, Inc. (Co-owned with WNJY-FM 94.3 Rivera Beach-West Palm Beach)
               1982-Abell Communications Corporation (The A. S. Abell Publishing Company)
               1984-S & F Communications, Inc. (James Seymour and Stuart Frankel)
               1985-Duffy Broadcasting, Inc. (A Division of Duffy Newspapers) ( $7.7 million)
               1987-Beasley-Reed Broadcasting, Inc. (George G. Beasley and George Reed) ($9.2 million)
               1996-Chancellor Broadcasting Corporation (Thomas O. Hicks, Founder, Chairman)
               1997-Chancellor Media Corporation¹
               1999-AMFM Broadcasting, Inc.²
               2001-Clear Channel Communications Corporation³
               2001-Infinity Broadcasting, Incorporated⁴

               2005-CBS Radio, Inc.⁵

History Of Call Letters and Formats: WMFJ-1967-Automated Beautiful Music (Drake-Chenault)  “Stereo 102”
                                                        WQXQ-1973-Automated AOR  (Drake-Chenault)  “Q 102”
                                                        WQXQ-1976-Automated Top 40  “Q 102”
                                                        WDOQ-1980-Top 40  “Q 102”
                                                        WCFI-1984 -Adult Contemporary  (Tran-Star Satellite)  “Central Florida’s I- 4 101.9 FM”
                                                        WCFI-1985-Adult Contemporary (Tran-Star Satellite)  “Sunny 102”
                                                        WORZ-1986-Classic Rock   “The Rock You Grew Up With“   “Z 102”
                                                        WJHM-1988-Urban Contemporary/Hip Hop   “Jamlando‘s 102 JAMZ”

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. 

Names In WDOQ History
Jim Walter
Robert M. Weeks
Jack Alex
Douglas Aurbach
Big Tom Winston (Ralph Wimmer)

Dave

Rick Knight-1980-1981

1 A direct result of Chancellor Broadcasting merging with Evergreen Media, keeping the name “Chancellor” from Chancellor Broadcasting and keeping “Media” from Evergreen Media, creating the new Chancellor Media Corporation)

2 Company was renamed when Chancellor Media Chairman and founder Thomas O. Hicks resigned, causing numerous corporate Board member changes. The new Chancellor Board of Directors renamed the Delaware corporation AMFM Broadcasting, Inc., naming company President and Chief Operating Officer (former Evergreen Media President and CEO), Jimmy DeCastro, President, CEO and Board member of the new AMFM Broadcasting.

3 Acquired when Clear Channel purchased AMFM Broadcasting

4 The one time radio division of CBS Corporation, owned by Viacom International, Inc. Mel Karmazin, Infinity Chairman,

(CEO)

5 Infinity Broadcasting, Inc. was renamed CBS Radio, Inc. after parent CBS Corporation was split off from Viacom International, Inc., creating two separate publicly traded companies in 2005

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