[BC] Fictional Call Signs and Stations

[Alan Alsobrook]

I found my Whites radio log and.. WKRP was in Dallas Ga 1500 KHz.
 From the FCC web site they took the call letters about 1 year after the 
show went on the air.

 From IMDB.com   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077097/

Hugh Wilson would do the warm-up during show tapings. Wilson said during 
a warm-up that the reason he chose call letters "WKRP" is that they were 
the only ones not being used by an actual station. He said he wanted to 
use "WSOS" or "WHLP" but they were taken. During the show's run, a small 
AM radio station in Georgia applied to the FCC for the call letters 
WKRP. The show's producers considered legal action, but were informed by 
the FCC that their trademark rights did not prevent a legitimate radio 
station from using the call letters, which were granted to the applicant.

The Current call letters of the station are WDPC.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=73871

I would also note that WSOS Wasn't issued until 1985, since I work for 
WSOS and reviewing a letter received from the FCC at the time the call 
sign was issued I don't think those had been issued previously.

Alan Alsobrook wrote:
> Seems to me back in the early 80's when WKRP was on TV, I think whites 
> radio log listed a WKRP in N Georgia.
> 
> Larry Fuss wrote:
>> WKRP-LP
>> LP
>> 125858
>> ALEXANDRIA
>> TN
> 

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