List of fictional radio stations

Last updated August 27, 2024

This is a list of notable fictional radio stations . At least eleven different TV shows have used a radio station as a setting.^[1]

According to Michael Hawk of Real TV Addict, the top five fictional stations on (American) television are WKRP, WNYX, KBHR, WENN, and KACL.^[2]

KACL 780 AM – is the radio station in Seattle which is the setting for Frasier .^[2] It was named after creators, Angell, Casey and Lee plus the standard letter K for stations located west of the Mississippi. Its format is talk radio and briefly was a salsa station. Several other fictional radio stations, KPXY, KQZY, KJSB, KAZW and KTLK are also mentioned or featured in the show. In 1997 an actual FM station in Bismarck, North Dakota signed on with the KACL call letters.
KBBL and KBBL-FM (AM 970, FM 102.5) – radio stations in The Simpsons . The letters of the call-sign suggest babble and the Tower of Babel.^[3] Nominal competitors are KJAZZ-FM and KFSL – Fossil 103 (there is a real KFSL-LP in Fossil, Oregon) KUDD Radio is a commercial radio station located in the town of Weevilville in Spittle County. KUDD's broadcast area includes Springfield. There is actually a real-life station with the KUDD call letters in Salt Lake City, Utah on 105.1 FM, with a Top 40 format, named "Mix 105.1"
KBHR 570 AM: from Northern Exposure ,^[2] it is the local station of fictional town Cicely, Alaska.
WENN : set in Pittsburgh,^[2] an old-time radio station that was the focus of the Emmy award-winning television series Remember WENN.^[4]
WKRP — Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati TV shows (formerly easy listening, turned into rock and Top 40 for both series). The show was considered revolutionary for its use of music for the fictional station.^[2] WKRP's rival is WPIG, whose mascot was a pig (and which is not to be confused with the real WPIG). In 2015 an actual FM station, WKRP-LP, began broadcasting in Raleigh, North Carolina.
WLT – Minneapolis, Minnesota, setting for the Garrison Keillor novel WLT: A Radio Romance . Call sign derived from the slogan "With Lettuce and Tomato".^[5]
WNYX 585 AM – AM news station in New York City from NewsRadio . The entire series takes place in, about and around the goings on at the station.^[2] Other stations mentioned in the show are WRMH, WYXP, and WXYP.
Radio Roo – a fictional radio station featured in the children's program of the same name.^[6]
Radio Norwich in I'm Alan Partridge

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WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, including many of the characters. Wilson once told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he selected WKRP as the call sign to stand for C-R-A-P.

KBBL may refer to:

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WBQC-LD is a low-power television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Fox affiliate WXIX-TV and 24/7 weather channel WZCD-LD. The three stations share studios at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street in the Queensgate neighborhood just west of downtown Cincinnati; WBQC-LD's transmitter is located on Symmes Street in the Mount Auburn section of the city.

WKRC is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio. The station airs a talk radio format, under the branding "55KRC". The station's offices and studios are on Montgomery Road off Interstate 71 in Cincinnati.

WAGG is a commercial radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. It is owned by SummitMedia and broadcasts an urban gospel radio format that targets Birmingham's African-American community. The studios and offices are in the Cahaba neighborhood in Southeast Birmingham, along with six other stations owned by SummitMedia.

WKRQ is a radio station located in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. The station is licensed to Cincinnati and broadcasts from the WKRQ Tower. It airs an adult-leaning Top 40 (CHR) format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The station's studios have been located on Kennedy Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati with co-owned WREW, WUBE-FM and WYGY since August 2021.

WLTS is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Greer, South Carolina. It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation and broadcasts a contemporary worship music format known as "Air1". It serves the Greenville-Spartanburg radio market in Upstate South Carolina.

WPIG is a radio station located in Olean, New York. Branded as "95.7 The Big Pig", the station operates a broad-based country music format. It is owned by Seven Mountains Media.

WIOE is a commercial oldies radio station licensed to serve Fort Wayne, Indiana. Owned by Brian Walsh, the station services the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Area and much of surrounding Northeastern Indiana as a full-power simulcast of WIOE, licensed to nearby South Whitley. WIOE also simulcasts over Fort Wayne translator W282CH. The WIOE studios are located in both Warsaw, and Fort Wayne, while WIOE's transmitter resides in Fort Wayne's East Central neighborhood along with W282CH's transmitter of Fort Wayne. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WIOE broadcasts under the C-QUAM AM stereo standard, and is available online.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KBHR</span> Radio station in Big Bear City, California

KBHR is a commercial radio station located in Big Bear City, California, broadcasting at 93.3 FM. KBHR airs an Adult Album Alternative music format branded as "K-BEAR, The Bear is Everwhere".

KFRC-FM is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It currently simulcasts sister station KCBS, which carries an all-news format. The station transmits its signal from Mount Beacon atop the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, California, while studios were shared with formerly co-owned CBS O&O station KPIX-TV in downtown San Francisco.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WQSC</span> Radio station in Charleston, South Carolina

WQSC is a commercial radio station licensed to Charleston, South Carolina. It is owned by Kirkman Broadcasting and airs a classic country format. Studios and offices are on Marksfield Drive.

KUMT is a radio station licensed to Randolph, Utah, United States, and serving the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station's transmitter is located on Humpy Peak in the Uinta Mountain range. Under the previous calls, KUDD and prior, the stations transmitter was located near Promontory Point, Utah, in Box Elder County.

WNYX may refer to:

WKRP is a call sign that has been used by several broadcast stations. It was made famous in the American sitcoms WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati, which portray a fictional radio station with that call sign.

WERC-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Hoover, Alabama, and serving Greater Birmingham. It is owned by iHeartMedia and it simulcasts a talk radio format with sister station WERC 960 AM. The studios and offices are in Beacon Ridge Tower on First Avenue South in Birmingham, off Interstate 65.

Kacl, KacL, or KACL may refer to:

References

↑ Raymond Edel (July 11, 1997), "Mixing Media, from 'Frasier' to 'Remember WENN'", The Record , archived from the original on November 4, 2012
1 2 3 4 5 6 Michael Hawk. "TV's Top Radio Stations Archived 2013-02-01 at archive.today ." Real TV Addict. March 29, 2010
↑ Davis Walter; Dreibelbis Gary; Blythe Teresa; Scales Mark; Ashburn Donald; Winans Elizabeth (January 2001), Watching What We Watch, Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN 9780664226961
↑ Emmy, vol. 19, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1997
↑ "WLT: A Radio Romance — 1991"
↑ CHILDREN'S TV – RADIO ROO to RUNNING THE HALLS Archived 2011-02-27 at the Wayback Machine memorabletv.com

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[1] Raymond Edel (July 11, 1997), "Mixing Media, from 'Frasier' to 'Remember WENN'", The Record , archived from the original on November 4, 2012

[hawk2010-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Michael Hawk. "TV's Top Radio Stations Archived 2013-02-01 at archive.today ." Real TV Addict. March 29, 2010

[3] Davis Walter; Dreibelbis Gary; Blythe Teresa; Scales Mark; Ashburn Donald; Winans Elizabeth (January 2001), Watching What We Watch, Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN 9780664226961

[4] Emmy, vol. 19, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1997

[5] "WLT: A Radio Romance — 1991"

[6] CHILDREN'S TV – RADIO ROO to RUNNING THE HALLS Archived 2011-02-27 at the Wayback Machine memorabletv.com

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