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(AP) \u2014 Hold on to those Thanksgiving turkeys! WKRP is coming to Cincinnati \u2014 for real this time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d D.P. McIntire, who runs the media nonprofit that is auctioning the famous call letters, told The Associated Press. \u201cBook it! It\u2019s done!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The call sign was made famous by \u201cWKRP in Cincinnati,\u201d a CBS television sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982. It made stars of actors like Loni Anderson and Richard Sanders, whose bumbling newsman Les Nessman reported on a Thanksgiving promotion gone bad when live but flightless turkeys were dropped from a helicopter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>McIntire remembers watching the show\u2019s first episode \u2014 featuring disc jockeys Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid) \u2014 in the living room with his parents and older sister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cAnd at the end of the 30-minute episode,\u201d he said, \u201cI got up and I proclaimed, `I\u2019m going to be in radio. And if I ever have the opportunity, I\u2019m going to run a station called WKRP.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>McIntire said he got his first on-air job at 13 as a news anchor at WNQQ \u201cWink FM\u201d in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Fast forward to 2014, when his North Carolina-based nonprofit acquired the call sign from the Federal Communications Commission. Stations in Dallas, Georgia, and Alexandria, Tennessee, previously bore the letters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>McIntire laughs as he recalls his chat with a woman in the agency\u2019s audio division.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He had two sets of call letters in mind. She told him he needed a third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cBeing the jokester that I am, I said, `Well, if you need three, and if it\u2019s available, we\u2019ll take WKRP,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd 90 seconds later, she came back and she said, `Mr. McIntire. Congratulations. You\u2019re the general manager of WKRP in Raleigh, North Carolina.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>WKRP-LP \u2014 101.9 on the FM dial \u2014 went live Nov. 30, 2015. The LP stands for \u201clow power,\u201d a class of station created to serve more local audiences that didn\u2019t want mass-market content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cOur format is what radio used to be 35 years ago in small-town America,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is Greats of the \u201980s, Sounds of the \u201970s, \u201990s Rewind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>LPFM is restricted to nonprofit organizations like his Oak City Media, and it\u2019s definitely local.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cYour broadcast capacity is limited to 100 watts,\u201d McIntire said. \u201cSo, your average range is between, depending on your terrain and circumstances, 4 and 12 miles (6 and 19 kilometers) in any direction. Enough to cover a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>And, by necessity, it\u2019s a low-budget affair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The transmitter is in a corner of McIntire\u2019s garage, between a recycling bin and the cleaning supplies. The broadcast antenna sits atop a 25-foot (7.62-meter) metal flagpole in the backyard. The studio \u2014 microphones and a mixing board hooked up to a computer \u2014 is on the first floor of McIntire\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Like the WKRP of television, McIntire and his partners set out to be \u201cirreverent.\u201d One of their offerings is a two-hour show called \u201cWeird Al and Friends,\u201d focusing on the satirical works of Weird Al Yankovic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>They even had an annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But don\u2019t call the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals \u2014 they hand out gift certificates to a local grocery store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t toss them out of helicopters,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>After more than a decade on the air, the 56-year-old McIntire decided it was time to pass the reins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a position where the older members like me who started the station are turning the leadership over to younger members,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not interested in radio.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>They put out a call for bids to use the call letters on FM and AM radio, as well as television and digital television.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>They intend to use the proceeds for a new nonprofit venture called Independent Broadcast Consultants. He said IBC will be \u201cgeared specifically toward helping these new broadcasters get up and running, get the consulting that they need in order to be, hopefully, more successful than we have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Oak City Media was all set to hand off the television-related suffixes \u2014 WKRPTV and WKRPDT \u2014 when another group defaulted on the agreement, McIntire said. But he said the Cincinnati deal is in the bag, he just can\u2019t legally discuss it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIt will be radio,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that\u2019s all I can tell you at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Robert Thompson, who uses a season 2 episode of \u201cWKRP\u201d in his TV history class at Syracuse University, said it\u2019s telling that people see real value in a fictional station whose call letters invoke the word \u201ccrap.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThe value comes from the love of the characters for each other,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd now by buying this thing, the value comes from our love of the characters themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Whatever they do with the call sign, McIntire hopes they will be true to the show that inspired it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIt has a special place in the hearts of an awful lot of people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we have been very, very, very proud to have been a steward of that legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>This story has been updated to correct that the studio is on the first floor of the home, not the basement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit cli-related-articles--single-article\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. 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