List of fictional radio stations

This is a list of notable fictional radio stations. At least eleven different TV shows have used a radio station as a setting.

According to Michael Hawk of Real TV Addict, the top five fictional stations on (American) television are WKRP, WNYX, KBHR, WENN, and KACL.

United States

• KACL 780 AM – is the radio station in Seattle which is the setting for Frasier. It was named after creators, Angell, Casey and Lee plus the standard letter K for stations located west of the Mississippi.  It hosts talk radio and briefly hosted salsa. Several other fictional radio stations, KPXY, KQZY, KJSB, KAZW and KTLK are also mentioned or featured in the show.

• 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. Nominal competitors are KJAZZ-FM and KFSL – Fossil 103

• KBHR 570 AM – from Northern Exposure, it is the local station of fictional town Cicely, Alaska.

• KTIM – from The Fairly OddParents is a radio station set up by Timmy Turner, the protagonist.

• WENN – set in Pittsburgh, an old-time radio station that was the focus of the Emmy award-winning television series Remember WENN.

• 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. WKRP's rival is WPIG, whose mascot was a pig (and which is not to be confused with the real WPIG station).

• WOLD – Boise, Idaho = from the song W*O*L*D by Harry Chapin.

• WPIG 95.7 – unrelated to WPIG Cincinnati. Rock station set in Aurora, Illinois in the movie Wayne's World 2. Partially based on a real-life country music station with the same call sign and frequency in Olean, New York.

• WUSA – is the setting of the film of the same name, which depicts it as a talk radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana.

• WNYX 585 AM – a fictional AM news station in New York City from NewsRadio. The entire series takes place in, about and around the goings on at the station. The number for the station is impossible to dial on standard AM radios, given the 10 KHz spacing on the AM band in the United States. Other stations mentioned in the show are WRMH, WYXP, and WXYP.

The game series Grand Theft Auto also has a large number of fictional radiostations.

Canada

• CIBJ-FM – a fictional campus radio station set in Toronto, Ontario from Drop the Beat, a spin-off of Straight Up.

• Radio Free Roscoe – a fictional pirate radio station created by four teen characters in the show of the same name.

• Radio Enfer – in the show of the same name, a high school radio station.

United Kingdom

• Crucial FM – a fictional pirate radio station on the Lenny Henry comedy TV series on BBC 1.

• Radio Active – from the radio series of the same name. (There is a real Radio Active in Wellington, New Zealand)

• Radio Norwich – I'm Alan Partridge

• 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.

• Radio Shuttleworth – from the radio series of the same name.

Extraterrestrial

• LIVE 34 – Earth Colony 34 news station in the Doctor Who audio drama of the same name.

See also

• List of fictional television stations