WKRP in Cincinnati

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Almost 50 years after the premiere of the WKRP sitcom, a Cincinnati radio station has acquired the call letters and has rebranded “The Oasis” nostalgic rock music format as “WKRP in Cincinnati.”

Owners of low-power WKRP-LPFM in Raleigh, N.C., have an agreement with a Cincinnati broadcaster to use the famous call letters in Greater Cincinnati.

A listener asks if WVXU, WMUB, and WGUC stand for anything and where the letters come from.

CBS introduced us to DJs Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap, program director Andy Travis, receptionist Jennifer Marlow, and station manager Arthur "The Big Guy" Carlson when the beloved Cincinnati radio sitcom premiered on Sept. 18, 1978.

The WKRP star was honored by Radio Ink magazine at its Radio Masters Sales Summit at the Cincinnati Airport Marriott 45 years after the sitcom premiered.

From 1978 to 1982, Sandy was "living on the air in Cincinnati" as program director of WKRP-AM, a fictional struggling Cincinnati radio station depicted in a half-hour CBS situation comedy series.

It's a plot twist which fits perfectly for the crazy gang at WKRP In Cincinnati: Forty years after the show's last original telecast on April 21, 1982, we learn that it WASN'T the final new episode after all!

CBS canceled the beloved radio station sitcom after the show was taped, so "Up and Down The Dial" served as the series finale.

Rest in peace Herb Tarlek.Actor Frank Bonner, who played salesman Herb Tarlek on WKRP In Cincinnati and The New WKRP In Cincinnati, died Wednesday, June…