Anyone know?
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ruggedrascal — 18 years ago(July 20, 2007 08:10 AM)
No specific reason. They wanted it to be a city that wasn't too glamorous (the sort of place that a California guy like Johnny Caravella would go to only as a last resort), a Midwestern city, and a city that hadn't been used in a sitcom before. They picked Cincinnati, but it was almost random.
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happipuppi13 — 13 years ago(August 14, 2012 02:11 PM)
Maniac had it absolutley correct.
I recently watched the Season 1 DVD and on the special "extra" they included,it was either a producer or writer who stated that they didn't want to be yet another big-city sitcom set in N.Y. or L.A. or Chicago.
Before WKRP debuted,thankfully,the sitocm "Alice" was set in Phoenix,AZ. (In the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" it was Tuscon). MAry Tyler Moore was in Minneapolis/St. Paul and One Day At A ime in Inianapolis.
ABC's "Angie" was set in Seattle.
Since then,there's bbe many sitcoms that have chosen cities that are not the "big 3" .
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jersey-3 — 18 years ago(July 22, 2007 04:23 AM)
I figure it was because it was a secondary city, with sports teams and stadiums that made for big name concerts to conceivably come to town.
Also, at the time, the Cincinnati Reds were a VERY POPULAR team in what was at the time the most popular American sport. So all Americans understood the city.
It has very metropolitan-ness, but does have the farming and small town feel right outside it. It is a Northern city in Ohio with a Kentucky southern feel. So it will appeal to all American viewers. -
lester-42 — 18 years ago(November 22, 2007 10:35 PM)
There used to be a very good singer who wrote his own songs named Harry Chapin.
One of his songs called (Cincinnati WKRP) is sung by a man telling the story of his life and he is a worker in various radio stations as on-air talent. I saw Chapin live in concert and apparently at every city in which he gave a concert he found out the call letters of a local station and substituted the local letters for WKRP. The song,by the way is about the ever-declining career of the singer. WKRP is where he ends up and he views this as the very bottom of the barrel. -
jersey-3 — 18 years ago(November 23, 2007 05:39 AM)
There used to be a very good singer who wrote his own songs named Harry Chapin.
One of his songs called (Cincinnati WKRP) is sung by a man telling the story of his life and he is a worker in various radio stations as on-air talent. I saw Chapin live in concert and apparently at every city in which he gave a concert he found out the call letters of a local station and substituted the local letters for WKRP. The song,by the way is about the ever-declining career of the singer. WKRP is where he ends up and he views this as the very bottom of the barrel.
You are remembering things incorrectly.
Harry Chapin wrote his semi-autobiographical song "WOL*D" in 1974 (a good three years prior to WKRP in Cincinnati premiering on television.)
It is a great and realistic look at life of a radio D.J. at the time. But it is hardly written about WKRP. -
Alek_Hidell — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 06:00 PM)
Harry Chapin wrote his semi-autobiographical song "WOL*D" in 1974 (a good three years prior to WKRP in Cincinnati premiering on television.)
It is a great and realistic look at life of a radio D.J. at the time. But it is hardly written about WKRP.
Quite true, but I've always felt that Chapin's song was the basis for the series, and the resaon the show was made in the firet place.
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rexb-2 — 17 years ago(August 12, 2008 07:09 AM)
Amen!
Or Malibu or Miami! Ritzy or messy places. Good ole' Cincinnati was a great choice to focus more on middle America. I always thought it was cute to include Dayton as getting away from the city.
But as I have heard and said in the past, Hollywood doesn't really understand there is more to America than just LA, NY and Chicago most of the time. They are trying to entertain people they don't understand or even really like. -
rexb-2 — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 08:55 AM)
Jay, you just showed your own ignorance. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)