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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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by wishfish

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Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available.
Really a brilliant idea.
Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp
Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

by vibrio

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by Rediscover

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WKRP's handling of the Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, 1979) really sticks out in my memory.
The radio station was portrayed as promoting a big concert through most of that episode, barely mentioning The Who by name that I recall, and it seemed like a "normal" installment for the first part of the television programme. The latter minutes somberly dealt with the tragedy and tried to bring attention to problems with "festival" (general admission) seating for such venues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_concert_disaster
A search says WKRP "In Concert" episode is viewable at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeWECDb3YM
Edit: s/never/barely/;s/20 minutes or so/part/

by jzb

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This is wonderful. I grew up watching WKRP and wanted to be Doctor Johnny Fever when I grew up. Managed to work in radio for a few years part-time, but by then DJing was “here’s a program sheet. Play these songs, exactly” - not the dream of being a DJ doing their own programming. I also realized why Johnny was always broke.
Still, very cool, and a little jealous of the on-air staff that get to work there.

by criddell

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It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

by tanseydavid

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by noefingway

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by embit

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And when I get confused, I watch TV. Television is never confusing. It's all so simple somehow.

by JKCalhoun

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by socalgal2

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by snapetom

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by esafak

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by api

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I live in Cincinnati and thought at first glance maybe somebody set up some kind of weird indie radio station and somehow got those call letters, which would be epic. Sad.

by comrade1234

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I think I'm getting this show mixed up with another. I thought that Phil Hartman was in it but looking at the wiki page he's not listed... ah, Phil Hartman was in News Radio. WKRP was almost 20 years earlier. Everyone that watched it is probably dead or in a nursing home.