There's No Business Like Radio Business

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Trivia Question: Who was the mayor of Cincinnati when WKRP was on the air? Before he was reincarnated as the Maytag guy, Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) owned a Cincinnati radio station which recently changed format to rock & roll.  WKRP was an entertaining show with wacky plots, and whose characters were characters.  Disc jockeys included the wild Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and the suave Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid), while the glib ad salesman Herb Tarlek (Frank Bonner) proved to be the perfect foil for straight-laced newsman Les Nessman (Richard Sanders).  Others included the bombshell Jennifer Marlowe (Loni Anderson), the savvy Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers), and maybe think of Andy Travis (Gary Sandy) once in a while.  Some of the stories were far fetched, but the concepts actually happened in radio.  For instance, in one episode, in order to avoid paying a generous 'name that tune' reward that they couldn't afford, they  changed the rules so that the winner had to name pieces of six songs.  As it happened, somebody got it. WKRP in Cincinnati kept the Queen City on the map just as the Big Red Machine began to rust ("Pete Rose is gone...but why to Philadelphia?").  For the record, in real life, there is no WKRP in Cincinnati.  Trivia Answer: Jerry Springer.

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MIK7x3 9 June 2000

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