GNR – In the videogame Fallout 3, this is the
Washington, D.C. station where Three Dog talked about the wastes and hosts a one-man radio show, Galaxy News Radio.
KAB/1340-Antonio Bay, California. Radio station housed in a lighthouse in
The Fog.
KACL 780 AM – is the radio station in
Seattle which is the setting for Frasier.[2] It was named after creators,
Angell,
Casey and
Lee plus the standard letter K for stations located west of the
Mississippi. Its format is
talk radio and briefly was a
salsa station. Several other fictional radio stations, KPXY, KQZY, KJSB, KAZW and KTLK are also mentioned or featured in the show. In 1997 an actual FM station in
Bismarck, North Dakota signed on with the
KACL call letters.
KBAL/1200: a religious radio station transmitting from Mount Zaphon in
AM1200 (film).
KBAL – SportsTalk radio station where Ryan King is a personality on the NBC sitcom, Go On. While an exact location isn't explicitly listed, its alluded to be somewhere in the southern California region.[3]
KBBL and KBBL-FM (
AM 970,
FM 102.5) – radio stations in The Simpsons. The letters of the call-sign suggest babble and the
Tower of Babel.[4] Nominal competitors are KJAZZ-FM and
KFSL – Fossil 103 (there is a real KFSL-LP in Fossil, Oregon) KUDD Radio is a commercial radio station located in the town of Weevilville in Spittle County. KUDD's broadcast area includes Springfield. There is actually a real-life station with the
KUDD call letters in Salt Lake City, Utah on 105.1 FM, with a Top 40 format, named "Mix 105.1"
KFLH: a radio station (FM 95.6) based in
San Francisco, featured in several episodes of Full House as an employer of two of the main characters, Jesse and Joey, and features the radio talk show Rush Hour Renegades.
KGAB:
Dallas, Texas – KGAB is a real radio station in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, but the call sign was used in the movie Talk Radio. The movie was made in 1988 and as KGAB's current call sign only dates back to 1997; it is unknown if the call letters was taken as a result of the movie.
KLOG-AM-FM: A 1976
SNL sketch in which
Dan Aykroyd plays a DJ who juggles simultaneous shows on a screaming AM and a mellow underground FM. The only location referenced is the vague "Summit."[5]
KSND – Sandcastle, California, heard in the Scary Story Time podcast based in the fictional town of Sandcastle. Its slogan is, "KSND the Sound of the Sea".[6][self-published source]
KUKU - Setting for the 1930s NBC Blue Network musical variety series
The Cuckoo Hour.
KUKU - Portland, Oregon station that is the focus of Of Mikes and Men by
Evelyn Sibley Lampman (as Jane Woodfin) about the early days of radio in the 1920s.
WAXX: A radio station, at or around 1500 kHz, that airs a
top 40 format and serves as continuity for the musical Grease. (In the film version, it carries the call sign KZAZ.) Vince Fontaine, one of the characters in the musical, is a disc jockey at the station.
WBLZ: a
Detroit rhythm & blues station catering to a black audience which unknowingly hires a white disc jockey. It was the setting of the 1992-93 TV show “
Rhythm & Blues”.
WBUJ - Barden University's station in the movie Pitch Perfect.
WKDK –
Boston, Massachusetts, "the Thought of Boston" has talk host Jimmy Winston who interviews detective Spenser about the Red Rose killer in
Robert B. Parker's novel Crimson Joy.
WKRP—
Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati TV shows (formerly easy listening, turned into rock and Top 40 for both series). The show was considered revolutionary for its use of music for the fictional station.[2] WKRP's rival is WPIG, whose mascot was a pig (and which is not to be confused with the
real WPIG). In 2015 an actual FM station,
WKRP-LP, began broadcasting in Raleigh, North Carolina.
WNYX 585 AM – AM news station in New York City from NewsRadio. The entire series takes place in, about and around the goings on at the station.[2] Other stations mentioned in the show are WRMH, WYXP, and WXYP.
WQHG 97.1 Quahog, Rhode Island. Featured in several episodes of the television show
Family Guy. Main characters Brian and Stewie host a show on the station in one episode. The station is known for its show "Weenie and the Butt", which is a reoccurring gag regarding
shock radio shows.
WQRY 88.1 – Campus Radio – college-based (after the owner of the station donated it to the Rockland University) radio station in the fictional town of Grandview, New York, from the season 5 episode Dead Air of Ghost Whisperer. WQRY Campus Radio 88.1 featured the show "Drivin' with DJ Dean Olson", that unintentionally caused a deadly accident when a prank call went wrong.
WREQ: from Homefront, it is the local station of fictional town River Run,
Ohio. WREQ was also the callsign of a competing station which offered Venus Flytrap a job in WKRP in Cincinnati. Additionally, WREQ features as a local station in the unnamed city that provides the setting for Hill Street Blues.
WUSA – is the setting of the film of the same name, which depicts it as a talk radio station in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
WYBS 88.3 – from Under the Dome, is a radio station in the small town of Chester's Mill.
WZAZ - Chicago station in the movie Airplane! "where disco lives forever!", whose building-mounted antenna is knocked over by a passing passenger jet.[9] Call letters are derived from the last names of directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.
WZAZ - in an episode of the TV show The Odd Couple, "The New Car", in which
Dick Clark has a cameo as a
DJ.
WZPZ - a fictional rock and roll radio station heard on a radio (notably playing
David Bowie in the "Wilderness Survival Badge" scene) in the
Amazon Studios movie
Troop Zero. WZPZ was also used in
House of Cards as a
Pittsburgh-based radio station through which
Congressman and
gubernatorial election candidate Peter Russo attended an interview drunk within weeks from the gubernatorial elections. The call letters are also seen in
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "What The Hey?"
Radio Rock – pirate rock-and-roll radio station broadcast from an offshore boat; from the movie The Boat That Rocked (known as Pirate Radio in the United States)
Radio Roo – a fictional radio station featured in the children's program of the same name.[11]
Dover Radio – featured in the BBC TV series
Missing set around in a busy under-resourced missing persons unit.[12]
Australia
PirateNet is a school-based community radio station which first appeared in Neighbours in 2009. Later that year, British singer
Lily Allen made a cameo appearance at the radio station.[citation needed]
Netherlands
Radio Bergeijk is a Dutch satirical
radio programme of which Peer van Eersel and Toon Spoorenberg are the anchormen. They are played by the comedians George van Houts and Pieter Bouwman respectively. The first episode was broadcast on April 3, 2001, from 00:44 to 01:00. From then on, a new episode could be heard every weekday. In January 2004 the programming of the Dutch radio changed dramatically and Radio Bergeijk was forced to broadcast just every Saturday from 13:30 to 14:00 on Radio 1.
Radio Fiets is a Dutch fictional radio station created in 1999. They are active on social media and on their own website. In 2012 they posted 10 tips to ride your bicycle through snow.[13]
Extraterrestrial
LIVE 34 – Earth Colony 34 news station in the Doctor Who audio drama of the same name.
WDPK 83.7 FM – a fictional FM radio station that in the song of the same name on the
Daft Punk album Homework.
Spain
Alfa Radio – In Médico de familia, Alicia hosts a late-night program on this station for some time.
Onda España – The primary setting of television series Reyes de la noche; the show revolves around the station trying to keep its sports show Tiempo de descuento afloat after its host leaves.
Onda Futura – The primary setting of television series Fenómenos, which revolves around the crew of a show about paranormal phenomena that airs on the station.
Radio 9 – A rival to Onda España in Reyes de la noche; star sports host Paco Maldonado leaving Onda España for Radio 9 sets off the show's main plot.
GNR – In the videogame Fallout 3, this is the
Washington, D.C. station where Three Dog talked about the wastes and hosts a one-man radio show, Galaxy News Radio.
KAB/1340-Antonio Bay, California. Radio station housed in a lighthouse in
The Fog.
KACL 780 AM – is the radio station in
Seattle which is the setting for Frasier.[2] It was named after creators,
Angell,
Casey and
Lee plus the standard letter K for stations located west of the
Mississippi. Its format is
talk radio and briefly was a
salsa station. Several other fictional radio stations, KPXY, KQZY, KJSB, KAZW and KTLK are also mentioned or featured in the show. In 1997 an actual FM station in
Bismarck, North Dakota signed on with the
KACL call letters.
KBAL/1200: a religious radio station transmitting from Mount Zaphon in
AM1200 (film).
KBAL – SportsTalk radio station where Ryan King is a personality on the NBC sitcom, Go On. While an exact location isn't explicitly listed, its alluded to be somewhere in the southern California region.[3]
KBBL and KBBL-FM (
AM 970,
FM 102.5) – radio stations in The Simpsons. The letters of the call-sign suggest babble and the
Tower of Babel.[4] Nominal competitors are KJAZZ-FM and
KFSL – Fossil 103 (there is a real KFSL-LP in Fossil, Oregon) KUDD Radio is a commercial radio station located in the town of Weevilville in Spittle County. KUDD's broadcast area includes Springfield. There is actually a real-life station with the
KUDD call letters in Salt Lake City, Utah on 105.1 FM, with a Top 40 format, named "Mix 105.1"
KFLH: a radio station (FM 95.6) based in
San Francisco, featured in several episodes of Full House as an employer of two of the main characters, Jesse and Joey, and features the radio talk show Rush Hour Renegades.
KGAB:
Dallas, Texas – KGAB is a real radio station in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, but the call sign was used in the movie Talk Radio. The movie was made in 1988 and as KGAB's current call sign only dates back to 1997; it is unknown if the call letters was taken as a result of the movie.
KLOG-AM-FM: A 1976
SNL sketch in which
Dan Aykroyd plays a DJ who juggles simultaneous shows on a screaming AM and a mellow underground FM. The only location referenced is the vague "Summit."[5]
KSND – Sandcastle, California, heard in the Scary Story Time podcast based in the fictional town of Sandcastle. Its slogan is, "KSND the Sound of the Sea".[6][self-published source]
KUKU - Setting for the 1930s NBC Blue Network musical variety series
The Cuckoo Hour.
KUKU - Portland, Oregon station that is the focus of Of Mikes and Men by
Evelyn Sibley Lampman (as Jane Woodfin) about the early days of radio in the 1920s.
WAXX: A radio station, at or around 1500 kHz, that airs a
top 40 format and serves as continuity for the musical Grease. (In the film version, it carries the call sign KZAZ.) Vince Fontaine, one of the characters in the musical, is a disc jockey at the station.
WBLZ: a
Detroit rhythm & blues station catering to a black audience which unknowingly hires a white disc jockey. It was the setting of the 1992-93 TV show “
Rhythm & Blues”.
WBUJ - Barden University's station in the movie Pitch Perfect.
WKDK –
Boston, Massachusetts, "the Thought of Boston" has talk host Jimmy Winston who interviews detective Spenser about the Red Rose killer in
Robert B. Parker's novel Crimson Joy.
WKRP—
Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati TV shows (formerly easy listening, turned into rock and Top 40 for both series). The show was considered revolutionary for its use of music for the fictional station.[2] WKRP's rival is WPIG, whose mascot was a pig (and which is not to be confused with the
real WPIG). In 2015 an actual FM station,
WKRP-LP, began broadcasting in Raleigh, North Carolina.
WNYX 585 AM – AM news station in New York City from NewsRadio. The entire series takes place in, about and around the goings on at the station.[2] Other stations mentioned in the show are WRMH, WYXP, and WXYP.
WQHG 97.1 Quahog, Rhode Island. Featured in several episodes of the television show
Family Guy. Main characters Brian and Stewie host a show on the station in one episode. The station is known for its show "Weenie and the Butt", which is a reoccurring gag regarding
shock radio shows.
WQRY 88.1 – Campus Radio – college-based (after the owner of the station donated it to the Rockland University) radio station in the fictional town of Grandview, New York, from the season 5 episode Dead Air of Ghost Whisperer. WQRY Campus Radio 88.1 featured the show "Drivin' with DJ Dean Olson", that unintentionally caused a deadly accident when a prank call went wrong.
WREQ: from Homefront, it is the local station of fictional town River Run,
Ohio. WREQ was also the callsign of a competing station which offered Venus Flytrap a job in WKRP in Cincinnati. Additionally, WREQ features as a local station in the unnamed city that provides the setting for Hill Street Blues.
WUSA – is the setting of the film of the same name, which depicts it as a talk radio station in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
WYBS 88.3 – from Under the Dome, is a radio station in the small town of Chester's Mill.
WZAZ - Chicago station in the movie Airplane! "where disco lives forever!", whose building-mounted antenna is knocked over by a passing passenger jet.[9] Call letters are derived from the last names of directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.
WZAZ - in an episode of the TV show The Odd Couple, "The New Car", in which
Dick Clark has a cameo as a
DJ.
WZPZ - a fictional rock and roll radio station heard on a radio (notably playing
David Bowie in the "Wilderness Survival Badge" scene) in the
Amazon Studios movie
Troop Zero. WZPZ was also used in
House of Cards as a
Pittsburgh-based radio station through which
Congressman and
gubernatorial election candidate Peter Russo attended an interview drunk within weeks from the gubernatorial elections. The call letters are also seen in
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "What The Hey?"
Radio Rock – pirate rock-and-roll radio station broadcast from an offshore boat; from the movie The Boat That Rocked (known as Pirate Radio in the United States)
Radio Roo – a fictional radio station featured in the children's program of the same name.[11]
Dover Radio – featured in the BBC TV series
Missing set around in a busy under-resourced missing persons unit.[12]
Australia
PirateNet is a school-based community radio station which first appeared in Neighbours in 2009. Later that year, British singer
Lily Allen made a cameo appearance at the radio station.[citation needed]
Netherlands
Radio Bergeijk is a Dutch satirical
radio programme of which Peer van Eersel and Toon Spoorenberg are the anchormen. They are played by the comedians George van Houts and Pieter Bouwman respectively. The first episode was broadcast on April 3, 2001, from 00:44 to 01:00. From then on, a new episode could be heard every weekday. In January 2004 the programming of the Dutch radio changed dramatically and Radio Bergeijk was forced to broadcast just every Saturday from 13:30 to 14:00 on Radio 1.
Radio Fiets is a Dutch fictional radio station created in 1999. They are active on social media and on their own website. In 2012 they posted 10 tips to ride your bicycle through snow.[13]
Extraterrestrial
LIVE 34 – Earth Colony 34 news station in the Doctor Who audio drama of the same name.
WDPK 83.7 FM – a fictional FM radio station that in the song of the same name on the
Daft Punk album Homework.
Spain
Alfa Radio – In Médico de familia, Alicia hosts a late-night program on this station for some time.
Onda España – The primary setting of television series Reyes de la noche; the show revolves around the station trying to keep its sports show Tiempo de descuento afloat after its host leaves.
Onda Futura – The primary setting of television series Fenómenos, which revolves around the crew of a show about paranormal phenomena that airs on the station.
Radio 9 – A rival to Onda España in Reyes de la noche; star sports host Paco Maldonado leaving Onda España for Radio 9 sets off the show's main plot.