Forty years ago, characters named Arthur Carlson, Les Nessman and Dr. Johnny Fever became household names and wildly popular fictional versions of radio industry managers and on-air hosts through the CBS prime-time series “WKRP In Cincinnati.”
The setting was an AM radio station. Today, the “WKRP” name is used in the market, but not as call letters. Rather, it is the brand of a low-power TV station, and it is on its way to becoming the latest LPTV property to be acquired by Gray Television.
“WKRP 25” is the branding for WBQC-LD 25 in Cincinnati, which has been in the Elliott B. Block WKQC Amended and Restated Trust.
Block died on Nov. 25, 2019, the station shared in a Facebook post at the time of his passing. “Block loved his family, friends, muscle cars, and of course, television … so much so that, in…
