“Well, I stick my head out the window....

And....I witness the weather”

Chi Chi Rodriguez!

and those '70's staples of sculpted hair, cleavage for the male viewers and Andy's tight pants for the ladies!

Chy Hoouha Hoouhas I recall.

Lives on to this day.

the show was a lot of fun, and had some great jokes delivered by excellent actors

Along with "Soap."

The Turkey Give Away episode is considered one of the great moments in television. Every character was very well developed and the writing was right up there with the best.

I guess I should do my research before I post. Thanks

They related the news of the tragedy as well as addressing the overriding issue ("Festival Seating" ) and it was done in a tasteful and respectful way.

M.A.S.H. did an episode that sticks out in a similar sort of way. They did it from the Point of View of the patient who had only a short window of survival and a stopwatch style clock was present for the entire show.

WKRP also addressed other important issues of the day, including the episode where a local evangelist was making waves for the station because of the music they played. Carlson quoted the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine" to the Pastor in the most significant scene in order to point out the hypocrisy of his attempted censorship.

WKRP was indeed, very well done

Excellent post very insightful.

I must’ve missed the episode where the preacher who is protesting WKRP. I need to look up that episode because it sounds very interesting.

I knew of a website that carried all of the episodes but I’ve forgotten where it is at. I will endeavor to find it and post the link here.

One more interesting observation about WKRP is the theme song. Someone was very creative in writing the theme song in that the very last line has the measure and pace and style of the call letters that you would hear on the radio. It’s hard to explain but maybe you know what I’m talking about.

Whenever radio calls out it’s call letters there is a certain style of the way it is delivered. The writer of the theme song to WKRP uses this delivery in the last line ... that being: WKRP in Cincinnati.

PAMS was a production studio in Dallas that provided ID jingles to just about every radio station in the country during the "golden age" of AM radio. They all had a similar sound, because they repurposed their music and just changed the call letters.

Thanks fur the inside info. Makes complete sense.

... or even syndication.

and was working in the business during the run of WKRP. I've always said it wasn't a sitcom so much as it was a documentary. I worked with all of those people at one time or another: The burned out boss jock (Johnny Fever was based on a jock from WQXI in Atlanta named Skinny Bobby Harper), the cool night jock, the clueless GM, the smart PD (guess who I was), the sales slug, the squirrely news guy, the sexy receptionist, and the sweet intern (although in my real life she was the traffic director).

The turkey drop actually happened, too, although it was from the back of a truck, rather than a helicopter, and there was no Hindenburg narration.

It’s good to know the WKRP was so accurate and it’s depiction of a real radio station.

I had no idea that the turkey thing was for real but from a truck. That makes it all the more funny. Comedy gold. Still one of the best scenes ever in situation comedy.

The technical aspects of radio on the show were laughable.

No one used headphones in the control room. This is necessary because when the mic is keyed, the monitors shut off. They got around that by having the monitors remain on, but magically not causing feedback. The only time I saw headphones (Sennheiser HD414s, no less) was when the staff (yeah, right) cut a jingle for a funeral home. Headphones wouldn't really have been necessary in that situation.

No one ever cued a record. They just plopped the tonearm down, and it was always in the exact right spot. And apparently WKRP turntables instantly came up to speed without wow, instead of the normal 1/4 turn -- 1/2 second -- required for other broadcast turntables.

The phone rang in the control room, instead of triggering a flashing light. That would be awkward when the mic was open. Also, in the early episodes, the phone was across the room from the jock. No one would design a control room like that.

In the first show, the logo in the reception area said WKRP was a 50,000 watt station. Soon thereafter, and for the remainder of the show, it was 5,000 watts. That never happens -- at least not in the 1970s. Nobody ever asks for a reduction in power, and 50,000 watt stations are on specific frequencies, so the don't interfere with each other. A 50,000 watt AM signal can go for hundreds of miles at night with the skywave. WLS in Chicago covered 38 states and 8 Canadian provinces at night, although it was a clear channel.

I understood why they did much of what they did. It was necessary for continuity and flow, and nobody outside of radio probably even noticed. If you were in radio, however, you had to suspend disbelief in the technical aspects to enjoy the show. I did, and I did.