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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 JKCalhoun »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #30
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.

I think it went over a lot our heads at the time…

The conceit of the show (pilot episode) was that the station had been a staid and lame radio station (out of Cincinnati) that suddenly came under new ownership (I think?). The staff now get to build a new (and cooler) brand for the station and there are no longer any guardrails.

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

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Post by wishfish »

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

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

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Post by grosswait »

ghaff wrote: post #23
mauvehaus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"

Even their footprints look like a dinosaur track

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

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Post by ghaff »

grosswait wrote: post #33
ghaff wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"

Even their footprints look like a dinosaur track

It's almost worse that, if you go back a ways, a lot of the theories were that extinction was fairly incremental--even comet/meteor notwithstanding. So, given essentially total extinction, convergent evolution may not have been a bad theory and may not even have been totally wrong.

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

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Post by paulryanrogers »

bityard wrote: post #16
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.

The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?

I saw it in passing as a kid. It was clearly for adults, so by now, yes most are either in nursing homes or at least senior living communities.

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

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Post by jancsika »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #30
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.

They even had a parody of a reality show in "Real Families." This was in 1980.

There's a scene where Herb is talking his family up as he attempts to casually throw a football with his kid. It quickly becomes obvious Herb has never played with his son, who makes no attempt to catch the ball and just keeps getting hit with it.

Ooh, it's even better than I remembered-- Herb steals his son's stuffed animal from him to get him to play catch:

https://youtu.be/1Tk6NpIncXg?t=444

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

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Post by jzb »

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.

Um. I grew up watching WKRP. I’m in my mid-50s.

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

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Post by jzb »

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.

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