On the radio

Assuming that you are not really interested in the difference between a low-power local FM radio station and a real full power station, I'll just get to the story here by telling you that some smaller communities have licenses for low-power stations that are simply designed to serve the needs of a small town or part of a county.  The low power means that not many radios can receive the station's signal, except for those living close by. LP stations tend to feature the sort of programming that not a lot of people want to hear. And they are non-profit enterprises, so there's not a lot of loot involved.

Now then. There is currently a station known as WKRP-LP serving a section of Raleigh, North Carolina since 2015. The call refers back to a popular 1978 - 1982 sitcom called "WKRP in Cincinnati," about the wacky doin's of the people at a fictional radio station.  The people at the LP station say their format is "what radio used to be 35 years ago in small-town America...Greats of the ‘80s, Sounds of the ’70s, ‘90s Rewind,” as well as local news and “specialty programming.”

The original situation comedy cast. I promise you, no one who ever worked at a real radio station looked like these people.

And they have a weekly two-hour show “Weird Al and Friends,” all about the musical prankery of Weird Al Yankovic.

Well then. The people who run the station are getting older and are losing interest in their radio hobby (after hearing "Beat It" so many times, can you blame them?). But they are going out with a bang: they have auction off the call letters to a group from Cincinnati who wants to put them on a real station, so get ready, Reds and Bengals fans and all else who call the Queen City home: soon you will be able to hear the modern equivalent of Dr. Johnny Fever and Les Nessman, and have a Herb Tarlek kind of guy try to sell you advertising time.

And as they always say on sitcoms, "That's crazy! But it just might be crazy enough to work!"