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.