WKRP returns

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Well Cincinnati radio just picked up a signal from the past.

The call letters WKRP—from the late-’70s sitcom about a fictional radio station—are coming back, for REAL, to the city that made them famous.

And the man helping make it happen… could barely contain himself:

MCINTIRE: WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to Cincinnati. 

That’s D.P. McIntire. He got it done. He runs a small nonprofit station in North Carolina, WKRP, a call-sign he treated less as property and more as a piece of radio history.

So when he found a group willing to bring WKRP to its rightful home, he awarded the rights.

Formats change, stations come and go, but some signals never really fade.

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