Video: Is the ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Thanksgiving episode still good?
These Enquirer staffers had never watched the famous “WKRP in Cincinnati” Thanksgiving episode. Here’s what they thought of the 46-year-old episode.
Cincinnatians, get ready to turn the radio dial to “WKRP.”
D.P. McIntire, owner of Oak City Media, a North Carolina-based nonprofit that is auctioning the call letters from the celebrated sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati,” told the Associated Press that the fictional radio station may soon become real.
“I cannot, by contract, tell you when. I cannot tell you who. But I can tell you, direct to the camera, WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to Cincinnati,” McIntire said. “Book it! It’s done!”
McIntire said that Oak City Media was “all set to hand off the television-related suffixes – WKRP-TV and WKRP-DT – when another group defaulted on the agreement,” the AP writes. He explains that the Cincinnati deal will likely come to fruition, he just can’t “legally discuss it.”
“It will be radio,” he said. “But that’s all I can tell you at this time.”
101.9 WKRP, a Raleigh, North Carolina, community radio station that operated with the famous call letters for a decade, announced its plan to cease broadcast operations in August 2025.
In the announcement, the station said intellectual property such as logos and slogans associated with the letters may be for sale. The call letters would be transferred for free with the sale of the intellectual property.
What is ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’?
“WKRP in Cincinnati” was a sitcom that ran on CBS for four seasons from 1978 to 1982. The show followed a cast of wacky characters at a struggling radio station. Some people might be familiar with the show from one line alone: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
No Cincinnati broadcaster has ever used the WKRP call letters before, according to the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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