{"id":66018,"date":"2026-05-06T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66018"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:29:19","slug":"wkrp-returns-fm-fiction-becomes-fm-reality-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/wkrp-returns-fm-fiction-becomes-fm-reality-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"WKRP Returns: FM Fiction Becomes FM Reality in Cincinnati!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares this bit of radio nostalgia made real. Nearly 50 years after the iconic TV series WKRP in Cincinnati<\/a> first aired, the call letters have officially returned\u2014this time on a real FM station in Cincinnati. The new WKRP(FM) launched on 97.7 MHz, even featuring a familiar voice from the original show to mark its debut.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at Radio World.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares this bit of radio nostalgia made real. Nearly 50 years after the iconic TV series WKRP in Cincinnati first aired, the call letters have officially returned\u2014this time on a real FM station in Cincinnati. The new WKRP(FM) launched on 97.7 MHz, even featuring a familiar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3781,3,305],"tags":[5875,634,9875],"class_list":["post-66018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-dennis-dura","tag-radio-world","tag-wkrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-haO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53163,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/dave-spots-a-realistic-pro-16-in-wkrp\/","url_meta":{"origin":66018,"position":0},"title":"Dave spots a Realistic PRO-16 in WKRP episode","author":"Thomas","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave (N9EWO), who shares the following: \"WKRP In Cincinnati\" - 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