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

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

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Post by ghaff »

criddell wrote: post #20

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.

Northern Exposure had similar problems but, as I understand it, at least some was resolved for the (somewhat relatively) recent DVD box set release.

It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the time and it's not like back catalog TV shows are usually these big money-makers that warrant a lot of time and cost to get in order.

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Post by ghaff »

mauvehaus wrote: post #12
PyWoody wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

Turkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"

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Post by toast0 »

comrade1234 wrote: post #2

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.

There was also two seasons of 'the new wkrp' from ten years after the old one. I don't follow the show (either version), so I don't know if the new seasons are any good; or the old ones really, but there'a a following, obviously.

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Post by Auracle »

mauvehaus wrote: post #12
PyWoody wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

The absolute favorite activity of my dog is to chase groups of turkeys that are in our yard. She’s only 15 pounds (and 15 years old now) and has never caught one, but I think being in the middle of a group of 20 turkeys all desperately trying to fly up to trees quickly is quite the experience for her.

She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.

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Post by Loughla »

noefingway wrote: post #19

Will Les Nessman be in his "office"?

We had a shared office at one point with three of us with desks. One guy was absolutely ANAL about nobody touching his stuff or approaching him unannounced.

So we taped off the area around his desk and started calling him Les. He was like 22 and had no idea what that was about, but he liked the nickname. It's decades later and he still goes by Les. Love it.

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Post by justbees »

asah wrote: post #6
justbees wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

like wet sacks of cement...

I always wondered if there was a relationship between this and the Oregon exploding whale in 1970 ? https://www.google.com/search?q=whale+explosion+oregon

Evidently it's from a true story. Luckily not actually thrown from a helicopter!

https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-aw...

CLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. ... Although the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck, as opposed to how it was depicted on the [show].

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

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Post by pwg »

criddell wrote: post #20

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.

The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #17

That's funny, especially since the callsign was part of the humor of the show.

Funny, I didn't watch this show much but was well aware of it as a kid, maybe it went over my head. And like many things introduced as a kid, I never thought to consider what KRP was supposed to mean. But I did just now, cheers.

Meta: I'm still learning new things about the 70s and 80s.

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