Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station
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It took nearly 50 years. WKRP in Cincinnati is no longer just a TV sitcom. It's now a real radio station in Cincinnati. A Cincy-area FM station, known as 'The Oasis,' has adopted the WKRP call letters after acquiring them from a nonprofit radio station in North Carolina.
OMG They're BACK. My Cincinnati born partner will chuckle when she hears this.
WKRP in Cincinnati Is Now a Real-Life Radio Station
The station, 97.7 FM in the Cincinnati area, aired the WKRP theme song for six hours straight early Monday morning before the changeover became official.
The WKRP call letters have been used by a handful of real radio stations in the past, though never in or near Cincinnati.
So, folks as ancient as me who will get the reference, there's a real WKRP on the air in Cincinnati now.
https://radioink.com/2026/05/04/after-40-years-and-for-the-first-time-wkrp-returns-to-cincinnati/
WKRP Returns: FM Fiction Becomes FM Reality in Cincinnati!
https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/wkrp-returns-fm-fiction-becomes-fm-reality-in-cincinnati/
Delightful. WKRP is now actually in Cincinnati. #wkrp
https://www.metafilter.com/213084/Finally-Livin-On-The-Air-In-Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati Theme (Steve Carlisle cover)
Les Nessman
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Program director Andy Travis complains that Nessman completely missed one of the most important stories of 1979, the Iranian Revolution, because he focused on a human interest story about a pig that could do addition and subtraction.
Lucky #Cincinnati
Hope it will honor the TV Show.
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