Anyone know?
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Alek_Hidell — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 06:00 PM)
Harry Chapin wrote his semi-autobiographical song "WOL*D" in 1974 (a good three years prior to WKRP in Cincinnati premiering on television.)
It is a great and realistic look at life of a radio D.J. at the time. But it is hardly written about WKRP.
Quite true, but I've always felt that Chapin's song was the basis for the series, and the resaon the show was made in the firet place.
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rexb-2 — 17 years ago(August 12, 2008 07:09 AM)
Amen!
Or Malibu or Miami! Ritzy or messy places. Good ole' Cincinnati was a great choice to focus more on middle America. I always thought it was cute to include Dayton as getting away from the city.
But as I have heard and said in the past, Hollywood doesn't really understand there is more to America than just LA, NY and Chicago most of the time. They are trying to entertain people they don't understand or even really like. -
rexb-2 — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 08:55 AM)
Jay, you just showed your own ignorance. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)
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javajuly — 16 years ago(July 15, 2009 08:02 PM)
It is a Northern city in Ohio
No, it is a Southern city in Ohio, probably the largest city north of Kentucky!
Cleveland, Canton, Akron and Toledo would be some of the best-known Northern
cities in Ohio. Then there's Dayton, my hometown, which is a mid-sized city
located between Columbus (Central Ohio) and Cincinnati.
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jayframe2001 — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 08:24 AM)
It has very metropolitan-ness, but does have the farming and small town feel right outside it. It is a Northern city in Ohio with a Kentucky southern feel. So it will appeal to all American viewers.
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dd1946 — 16 years ago(July 13, 2009 05:59 PM)
I lived in northern KY and worked in downtown Cincinnati in those days and I always suspected that WKRP was based on the very real and wonderful Cincinnati station "102.7 WEBN" The station was total insanity in the 70s. It was the early days of FM and I had a converter attached to my '66 Charger so I could get the new FM stations.
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pt100 — 11 years ago(March 06, 2015 06:42 AM)
Well, it wasn't really the early days of FM. It had been around since after WWII, and we had an FM radio in the early 1960s. By the end of the 1970s, 50.1% of radio listeners were tuned to FM, ending AM's historical prevalence. By 1982, FM commanded 70% of the global audience and 84% among the 12-24-year-old demographic.
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tryingcake — 10 years ago(May 20, 2015 03:22 PM)
When WKRP was on the air in 1978, I was 16. I had been listening to an FM, hard rock, album station for a few years at that point. I would safely say at least since 73, if not earlier. And it was well established when I started listening. I grew up in the Akron area listening to Cleveland radio. We were also not far from Cincinnati at all. There were a few AM stations still kicking' it. But they were typically only listened to by older people or younger and middle-aged people still listening to doo-wop music (Oldies). I am sure they existed, but I do not remember any "new" rock AM stations in the area. I don't think we could pick up Cincinnati radio, though.
In other words, you are correct. It was not a new radio format or frequency.
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