I knew a jock who passed out on the air during his overnight shift. The news man came in and found him slumped over with a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps in his hand. The record was still spinning around making the scratching noise on the air. WKRP was not far from reality at all...
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We all have stories of the business over the decades. You could probably site examples from any industry portrayed later on a sitcom, and come up with similar analogies. Wallmart workers probably find NBC's Superstore parody amusing too. Like that, WKRP and characters were amusing to some, but was hardly representative of how real radio stations worked.
I've heard it said that "Superstore" was realistic but I hope not.
In having worked for UPS I can definitely say that in King of Queens some things could really happen but not everything was realistic, and in some cases even crazier things have happened. 🤪
At our country AM, we have one overnight guy who refused to play Tanya Tucker's 'Lay with me in a field of stone.'
He thought it was too dirty...
My favorite memory, I was talking to the mid-day guy on the same AM.
He was running Ralph Emery's show, that was on LP.
We didn't sell it, so he would do a brief drop of an announcement, while the LP in cue, would shift fro 33 - 78 stop, cue it up and set it back to 33 1/3.
One show Jim Stafford was a guest. He brought in an early synthesizer, doing funny voices etc.
My friend after the quick queue up the next track on the LP, for got to set it back to 33 1/3.
When it started, we heard a chip monk speak, he quickly shifted it on the air back to 33.
I swear to a stack of bibles, Ralph then said, ,"What was that again?" Then Stafford answered him back in a regular voice.
My friend just smiled while I was saying, 'You don't know how lucky you are."
That is radio.
I miss the way it was, before Wall St. messed it up beyond believe.
He thought it was too dirty...
My favorite memory, I was talking to the mid-day guy on the same AM.
He was running Ralph Emery's show, that was on LP.
We didn't sell it, so he would do a brief drop of an announcement, while the LP in cue, would shift fro 33 - 78 stop, cue it up and set it back to 33 1/3.
One show Jim Stafford was a guest. He brought in an early synthesizer, doing funny voices etc.
My friend after the quick queue up the next track on the LP, for got to set it back to 33 1/3.
When it started, we heard a chip monk speak, he quickly shifted it on the air back to 33.
I swear to a stack of bibles, Ralph then said, ,"What was that again?" Then Stafford answered him back in a regular voice.
My friend just smiled while I was saying, 'You don't know how lucky you are."
That is radio.
I miss the way it was, before Wall St. messed it up beyond believe.
It WAS too dirty. She was a teenager when she sang that song. Written by David Allen Coe.
Unfortunately it turned out to be only the two part episode where Johnny hosts a local dance show and goes by the name Rip Tide. That was one of his best episodes but there should have been more.
I was working at this combo in New Mexico back in 93. The AM played Christian music in the afternoon, and the jock had come out into the lobby to talk up the receptionist...he had a thing for her.
Anyway, we all listened to the song fade out, and watched him realize his mistake and run down the hall screaming profanities that would make his listeners clutch their pearls.
Then dead air. He cracked the mic, and said "that was a moment of silence...for prayer. And now here's the latest from Phil Keaggy."
Epic recovery.
Yes, they should have done more. The fees to use the original music is probably why the show is no longer on the regular schedule...
Most of the original music was cut from the reruns. The Shout Factory DVD set has about 85% of the music restored
Check out the WKRP-Cast Podcast that's been running for a couple of years. ‎WKRP-Cast on Apple Podcasts
Especially given that most of the players aren't even from Cincinnati, anyway.
Anyone know what song was playing when Jennifer answered the phone in the first episode? She was still describing the old format.
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