A station in Dallas GA, a suburb of Atlanta, held the WKRP calls for a
while. The following information is from Georgia Tech's local radio
history page at:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/radio/am.html




1500 - WDPC - Religion - Dallas GA

Simulcasts AM 1520. The station's frequency is the 2nd harmonic of 50 kW
WSB-AM, generally making reception impossible in Atlanta. The station
went on the air in August 1979, with the calls WKRP. The engineer who
put it on the air was Tom Hayes, a student who worked for a while for me
as a lab assistant. The owner was a Dallas, GA, businessman. The
original management hoped to penetrate the Atlanta area with a top-40
format. The station changed hands several times and then went dark. It
is back today with a religious format. The original calls were obtained
only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
unintentionally played at the wrong speed.


Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

GTT





(snippage)

WKRP anyone? We had a 'KRPN' that used a W before the official calls
in the early nineties. Oddly, they simulcasted KZHT for a while.
There were a few titters about the vulgar words you could also get out
of those two. But yes, broadcasters did call KZHT 'K-Zit' for a while
anyway. KZHT first appeared in 1989, and is still a CHR/Pop.

G.T. Tyson wrote:
only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
unintentionally played at the wrong speed.

Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
whether it was the other way around.

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"Steve Sobol" wrote in message
...
| G.T. Tyson wrote:

| only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
| Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
| 'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
| null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
| invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
| unintentionally played at the wrong speed.

| Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
| Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
| based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

| Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
| I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
| whether it was the other way around.

As I've always loved this show (inasmuch as it had its own Ginger/Mary Ann
debate....Bailey - Jennifer) I can tell you that the connections to Cincinatti
radio ran deep. Not only WQXI, but also WLW and WKRC. But WKRQ (the last two
letters suggesting Rock, which of course was the format then, and probably
still) was simply a variant of the AM, WKRC, and both stations were owned by
Taft (as in the President, and descendents, including Senator Robert)
Broadcasting, which it'd owned for many, many years. So in this case WKRP was,
at best, suggested by the previous knowledge of WKRC/WKRQ. I'm sure there's a
fan website out there that is more accurate and expansive than my memories of
it.
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Steve Sobol wrote:

Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
whether it was the other way around.

WKRC was there before the show

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WFOR was (is?) a small 250W AM station in Hattiesburg, MS (FORrest
county). WFOR-TV is in Miami, no connection I think.

Joel Rubin wrote:
On 23 Feb 2005 03:24:41 GMT, "Blue Cat" wrote:


There are some that I came upon:
WGY 810 kHz, Schenectady, NY "G" for General Electric, "Y" last letter in
Schenectady.
KGO 810 kHz, San Francisco, CA "G" for GE, "O" last letter in San
Francisco. GE owned both stations many years ago.
WROW 590 kHz, Albany, NY "Row!" (like a dog growling) "Watchdog of the
Capital District".
WPTR 1540 kHz, Albany, NY (back in the 1960s), Patroon Broadcasting Corp.
WROV 1240 kHz, Roanoke, VA (back before 1990s) "RO" for Roanoke, "V" for
Virginia.
WSLS 610 kHz, Roanoke, VA (Before 1980), Shenandoah Life (insurance) Station
WQBA 1140 kHz, Miami, FL (Spanish speaking) Q, pronounced "coo", BA as in
"bah". Said together, it is "Cuba" as said in Spanish.



WEAF (later WNBC, WRCA and WFAN) was next in sequence after the call
letters that the FCC originally offered and the owners rejected -
WDAM.

WEVD (now WEPN) stood for Eugene V. Debs, the labor union leader who
helped found the Socialist Party and was jailed for criticizing World
War I.

WCFL (I'm not sure what that is now) was Chicago Federation of Labor

WLS (then owned by Sears) was the World's Largest Store

KYW doesn't stand for anything but it has an interesting migratory
history, having originated in Chicago, then Philadelphia, Cleveland
and back to Philadelphia.

WJZ is another call associated with AT&T and Westinghouse which has
done some migration. Originally the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) call
in New York, it is now the call for the Westinghouse (later CBS) TV
station in Baltimore.

I don't think you can actually buy a call from one station to use on
another station but Ted Turner bribed the MIT student radio station
WTBS (Technology Broadcasting System) to change its call to WMBR so
that the call WTBS would become available to his TV station.

Also, are there any sets of calls in which the AM/FM and TV stations
are hundreds of miles apart other than for KCBS?

KCBS is in San Francisco. KCBS-TV (originally KNXT, from KNX for the
Los Angeles Evening Express) and KCBS-TV are in Los Angeles.