Nearly 50 years after WKRP in Cincinnati first aired, listeners were greeted with a familiar voice when The Oasis flipped the switch to become the very real WKRP in Cincinnati on Monday morning: Gary Sandy, or, as the show’s legion of fans know him, Andy Travis.
Sandy sat down with Radio Ink to talk through how it happened, what almost didn’t, and why a show about a rock station in Ohio still commands the kind of attention that makes national news almost a half-century later.
Radio Ink: When it was first revealed that the WKRP call letters would be coming to Cincinnati for real, what was your reaction?…