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The WKRP call letters are for sale. Will they live on the air in Cincinnati?

vchimpanzee said:
I thought he adopted a girl who turned out to have an identical twin sister.

What makes no sense is he raised the fun-loving one and the other one was raised by someone irresponsible and still turned out to be smart and serious.
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I don't remember that. The TV station I worked for at the time carried the show, but it was pre-empted most of the time for sports. Of course I found some down time and grabbed the tape and watched it. The New WKRP hasn't had the rerun life the original had, of course.
 
gr8oldies said:
I don't remember that. The TV station I worked for at the time carried the show, but it was pre-empted most of the time for sports. Of course I found some down time and grabbed the tape and watched it. The New WKRP hasn't had the rerun life the original had, of course.
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I remember it being one of those syndicated shows, usually aired on Saturday afternoon or early evening.
 
Dick's History said:
Hardly iconic.

Cincinnati had a WKRC FM, originally WCTS, newspaper-owned. Taft family. Through the 1960s that FM offered Beautiful Music days and Classical eves, switching to a Rock or Top 40 format around 1971.
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WKRC-AM had the WCKY calls too for a few years when 550/1360/1530 exchanged call signs during the mid 90s. So if any of those stations changed call signs, it wouldn't be that unheard of.
 
Dick's History said:
Hardly iconic.

Cincinnati had a WKRC FM, originally WCTS, newspaper-owned. Taft family. Through the 1960s that FM offered Beautiful Music days and Classical eves, switching to a Rock or Top 40 format around 1971.
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I’ll throw in that WKRC-FM first switched from classical/BM to a syndicated oldies format before switching to Top 40 and becoming WKRQ, which was around 1972ish. They adopted the KCBQ Super Q format, like KSLQ St Louis, WGRQ Buffalo, etc.
 
passtheword said:
WKRC-AM had the WCKY calls too for a few years when 550/1360/1530 exchanged call signs during the mid 90s. So if any of those stations changed call signs, it wouldn't be that unheard of.
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Right after the "550 WLW" phase. I was a teenager at the time and remember wondering how two stations could have the same call letters, not knowing at first that 550 was technically WLWA. I even remember a Ken Broo liner on Bengals games saying "... on 550 and 700 WLW" going into breaks.
 
schmave said:
Right after the "550 WLW" phase. I was a teenager at the time and remember wondering how two stations could have the same call letters, not knowing at first that 550 was technically WLWA. I even remember a Ken Broo liner on Bengals games saying "... on 550 and 700 WLW" going into breaks.
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I remember McConnell saying "550 and 700 WLW" for a short time while his shoe was on both. The WKRC call letters for legal ID purposes didn't go away immediately either. At one point 550 WLWA tried its hand at a female-friendly talk format, but that barely got off the ground.
 
gr8oldies said:
I don't remember that. The TV station I worked for at the time carried the show, but it was pre-empted most of the time for sports. Of course I found some down time and grabbed the tape and watched it. The New WKRP hasn't had the rerun life the original had, of course.
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The actor who played Venus starred in "Sister, Sister", a successful sitcom about two adopted twins who discovered each other years after they were first adopted. He was serious and uptight and the other sister moved in with her fun-loving mother. Each adopted daughter was more like the other sister's parent.
 
schmave said:
Right after the "550 WLW" phase. I was a teenager at the time and remember wondering how two stations could have the same call letters, not knowing at first that 550 was technically WLWA. I even remember a Ken Broo liner on Bengals games saying "... on 550 and 700 WLW" going into breaks.
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In Raleigh where WKRP is now, WPTF tried to be two talk stations, one on 680 and one on 850 (legal station ID WPTK). The one on 850 eventually went back to music.
 
I don't blame a person from trying

But based on the recent sales figures being reported by some broadcasters going down, I doubt anyone will pony up any money for call letters in a PPM market.
 
secondchoice said:
I don't blame a person from trying

But based on the recent sales figures being reported by some broadcasters going down, I doubt anyone will pony up any money for call letters in a PPM market.
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Unless they're a station nobody has ever heard of and this gets them publicity. At the same time, if its an LPFM that gets them it will be a huge disappointment to most people who won't even be able to hear it.
 
I don't expect it to be a rated station who will get the KRP calls either as most people couldn't even tell you the call letters of the station they are listening to. I also think they are risking legal challenges from IHeart or Hubbard also.
 
secondchoice said:
I don't blame a person from trying

But based on the recent sales figures being reported by some broadcasters going down, I doubt anyone will pony up any money for call letters in a PPM market.
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I guess you missed the part about a Cincinnati broadcaster that DID pony up the cash to use WKRP. We're just waiting now for the reveal...
 
I remember when Q102 sent a C&D to then WZRQ Z Rock 96.5 and if my memory is correct 1160 had WKYN Northern Kentucky University had them change them. Of course that was years ago when call letters meant more than they do now because of PPM
 
microbob said:
I remember when Q102 sent a C&D to then WZRQ Z Rock 96.5 and if my memory is correct 1160 had WKYN Northern Kentucky University had them change them. Of course that was years ago when call letters meant more than they do now because of PPM
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Here's just one of many examples:

In San Francisco there is a KSFO, and a KSFN, also a KKSF, and a KOSF. There has never been any legal challenges for any of them.
 
microbob said:
I remember when Q102 sent a C&D to then WZRQ Z Rock 96.5 and if my memory is correct 1160 had WKYN Northern Kentucky University had them change them. Of course that was years ago when call letters meant more than they do now because of PPM
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That was then. This is now.
 


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