List of fictional radio stations
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This is a list of fictional radio stations.
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[edit] Australia
- CHAT-AM - Shock Jock
- UNI-FM - Eden Hills University station on soap Neighbours
[edit] Canada
- CIBJ - Drop the Beat
- CRAZ - Degrassi High
[edit] United Kingdom
- BBC Radio Borsetshire - The Archers
- Brixton Broadcasting Corporation - The Lenny Henry Show
- English Broadcasting Corporation - John Wyndham's novel The Kraken Wakes
- Radio Active - from the radio series of the same name. (There is a real Radio Active in Wellington, New Zealand)
- Radio Blackbury - Johnny and the Dead
- Radio Fab aka Fab FM - Harry Enfield's Television Programme
- Radio G-Fab FM - Harry Enfield's Television Programme
- Radio Ga Ga - a song by Queen
- Radio Norwich - I'm Alan Partridge
- Radio Quiet - Harry Enfield's Television Programme
- Radio Shuttleworth - from the radio series of the same name.
- Radio West - Shoestring (not to be confused with the real Radio West which became GWR, and the still existing Radio West in the Netherlands)
[edit] United States
- ASOL - a "soul station", home of soul DJ Right-On Washington; Big Bambu LP by Cheech & Chong
- BDRX - Bedrock, prehistoric USA, The Flintstones
- Boomer 102 Classic Rock - Calvin and Hobbes
- Bounce FM - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rhythmic Oldies)
- Chatterbox FM - Grand Theft Auto III (Talk Radio)
- Crash FM-Burnout 3: Takedown and Burnout Revenge, but most notably Burnout 3.
- CSR 103.9 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Urban Contemporary)
- DORM - College station from a skit on the Cheech and Chong album Get Out Of My Room.
- Double Clef(f) FM - Grand Theft Auto III (Classical)
- Emotion 98.3 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Love Anthems)
- Fever 105 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Urban Contemporary)
- Flash FM - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Hot AC)
- Flashback FM - Grand Theft Auto III (80's Rock)
- Fresh 105 FM - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Old School hip hop and period Electro)
- Funami FM - Grand Theft Auto 2 (drum and bass-type electronic music)
- Futuro FM - Grand Theft Auto 2 (dance, jazz-oriented pop and Funk)
- Game Radio - Grand Theft Auto III (Hip Hop)
- G-O-N-G - I Love to Singa, 1936 Warner Bros. cartoon
- GTZR - Gotham City, USA, Batman (TV series)
- Head Radio - Grand Theft Auto III (Hot AC)
- Heavenly Radio - Grand Theft Auto 2 (Jesus-pop and soft music)
- Insert Call Letters Here - Richard Cheese - I'd Like A Virgin
- KAB - The radio station in Antonio Bay in the original film The Fog
- KADS (K-Ads) - All advertisement format radio. From a skit by the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater
- K-Billy - Reservoir Dogs
- K-DST - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Classic Rock)
- K-Chat - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (talk radio)
- K-Rose - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Country)
- KACL-AM - Seattle, Washington, Frasier (talk radio, then salsa, then back to talk)
- KAOS - the 1987 Roger Waters album Radio K.A.O.S.
- KBAA - Chamillionaire: The Sound of Revenge rap album (hip hop, repetitive music every day with no cursing, no profanity, no obsene language, no nudity, no poppin' trunk, no comin down and no Chamillionaire). Featured as a hidden skit after a song on album; hosted by fictional DJ's Dalvin and D-Ridah.
- KBBL-FM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons
- KBHR (AM 57) - Cicely, Alaska, Northern Exposure - note: an actual KBHR-FM exists in Big Bear City, California
- KCPY - Used in season two of Knight Rider; also see List of fictional Television stations
- KCUF - Kinneret-Among-the-Pines, California, The Crying of Lot 49
- KDUM - a top 40 station briefly disc-jockeyed by Jon Arbuckle, Garfield and Friends
- KEDD - a radio station herd in the car at the start of 405 The Movie, taking place in LA.
- KEZE - a radio station heard at the beginning of a track on the Easy E album Eazy-Duz-It
- KFLH - a radio station in San Fransisco, California featured on Full House with the radio shows Rush Hour Renegades and Teen Talk (also named Yakkin' with Youth).
- KFSL-FM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons (classic rock)
- KGAB-Dallas Talk Radio
- KJAZZ-AM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons Claims to be highest broadcast range in the US for a Jazz Station, 23 feet (jazz station)
- Note: There actually is a radio station called "K Jazz" (KKJZ) that broadcasts more than 23 feet from California State University, Long Beach.
- K-Jah - Grand Theft Auto III (Reggae/Dub)
- K-Jah West - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Reggae/Dub)
- KJCM-FM - Fictional radio station in San Fransisco, California feature in NBC TV's late 1980's series Midnight Caller. The call-sign is the reverse of Midnight Caller Jack Killian (player by Gary Cole).
- KJEM - Jem
- KJZZ - Los Angeles, California, That Thing You Do!
- KKHV - Hill Valley, California, Back to the Future
- KKOW (K-Cow) - Fictional Country music station mentioned in comedy skits on Las Vegas AOR FM station KOMP
- KKTY/98.6 - Bayside High School Radio, Saved By The Bell
- KLON - Fictional Los Angeles-based Radio Station that introduces "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" on the Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf" CD.
- KLOW - Portland, Oregon, Hello, Larry
- KMVS - The Movies and The Movies Stunts and Effects
- KNNY - Kenny Kawaguchi and Barry Dejay's station (the station is named after Kenny himself), Backyard Basketball 2004
- KOLD - Senior citizens station in SpongeBob SquarePants (also a radio station on Rugrats
- KORN-AM - Hee-Haw skit, featuring humorous news reports by "Charlie Farquarson" (Don Harron).
- KOW - Vanishing Point
- KPPX/103.6 - Los Angeles, California, Airheads (rock)
- KRAP - Los Angeles, California, from the song "Welcome to Hollywood" by Gerry Rafferty (top 40)
- KRAY is a radio station mentioned several times in the TV sitcom Mama's Family. The call letters stand for "RAYtown", the fictional town that the show takes place in.
- KREZ - Grand Theft Auto 2 (hip hop and rap)
- KRFF - Hearst College radio on Veronica Mars
- KRUD - from the webcomic KRUD Radio
- KSIM - from the SimCity video games (real unassociated KSIMs exist)
- KTIT - from the Fahrenheit level of Duke Nukem 3D (unknown format)
- KUDA - That's So Raven
- KUDD-AM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons (country/western)
- KXLA/98.6 - Los Angeles, California, Radio station from the film Joe Dirt
- KZMB - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror III" episode (all zombie radio)
- KZOG/530 AM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons
- LCFR - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (public talk radio)
- Liberty FM - Grand Theft Auto III (unknown)
- The Liberty Jam - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (East Coast hip hop)
- Liberty Soul FM - Grand Theft Auto III (unknown)
- Lithium FM - Grand Theft Auto 2
- Lips 106 - Grand Theft Auto III (Pop)
- Lo-Fi FM - Grand Theft Auto 2 (oldies and pop)
- Master Sounds 98.3 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rare Groove)
- MJZZ - Hey Arnold
- MSX FM - Grand Theft Auto III (Drum 'n' Bass)
- Osmosis Radio - Grand Theft Auto 2 (modern dance music)
- Paradise FM - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Phoenix Radio - Pirate station from the film Born in Flames
- Playback FM - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (80's Hip Hop)
- QSKY/71.1 (pronounced "seven-eleven") - Los Angeles, California, FM (movie) (rock, Top 40)
- Radio del Mundo - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (World music)
- Radio Espantoso - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Latin)
- Radio Free Opportunity - City of Villains, also known as "The Radio"
- Radio Los Santos - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Early 90's Hip Hop)
- Radio Regazza - Pirate station from the film Born in Flames
- Radio Tokyo - M*A*S*H (Easy listening, Armed Forces Radio)
- Radio X - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Alternative Rock)
- Rebel Radio/KING - Grand Theft Auto 2 (modern and classic rock)
- Rise FM - Grand Theft Auto III (Trance)
- SF-UR - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (House)
- Rockstar Radio - [[Grand Theft Auto 2] (pop and rock)
- T-Wave - Texas, Bubblegum Crisis original OAV Episode 7 (Top 40, based on real-life J-Wave in Japan), the station that aired Vision's Say Yes!
- VCN - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- VCPR - Vice City Public Radio Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Public talk radio)
- Vice City For Lovers - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Soul)
- V-Rock - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Heavy Metal)
- WAOK AM 1939, on fictional Thursday-night dance-band broadcasts from the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago, Illinois
- WART - Wellsville, USA, The Adventures of Pete & Pete (sometime pirate radio station of Pete)
- Wave 103 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (New Wave)
- WBCW - Boston Bay College, Massachusetts, Dawson's Creek
- WBBY - One time employer of Mark Slackmeyer (character in Doonesbury)
- WCOKE - New Coke radio commercial starring Kool & the Gang
- WCTR - stands for west coast talk radio Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Talk Radio)
- WDUM - from Sudden Death's song "Slow Painful Death" from album Unplugged - station played "The Fuglees" (parody of The Fugees) over and over again (Top 40 CHR)
- WEAK - from LP Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School by RoadHog Moran & the Caddilac Cowboys (aka Statler Brothers)
- WEE - Happy Days
- WEFUNK - from the song "P. Funk" by Parliament
- WE-LOVE - Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, Do The Right Thing
- WENN - Remember WENN TV series
- WEZY - Somewhere in Mississippi, O Brother, Where Art Thou
- WFBB - New York, New York, Seinfeld
- WFPP - Point Place, Wisconsin, That 70's Show; Known as The Sound, the station's biggest personality was Jerry Thunder (Curtis Armstrong). Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon), originally hired as an office girl, later became popular among listeners as Hot Donna.
- WGN Radio - Saturday Night Live; Featured in a sketch from February 17, 1979, Bill Murray was station DJ Dick Lanky, while Dan Aykroyd was meteorologist Todd Sweeney.
- WHEEL - Pelswick
- WHIZ - Fawcett City, Captain Marvel
- WINO - from "Wonderful WINO/Top 40 DJ" cut of LP "Take Offs & Put Ons" by George Carlin
- WJAZ - "From the foot of Mount Belzoni" from The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
- WKOMA-AM - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons (easy listening)
- WKPV - Pleasantville
- WKYA - 1,2,1,2, (song), Method Man and Redman
- WKRP/1530 - Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati TV show (formerly easy listening, turned into rock and Top 40 for both series)
- Wildstyle Pirate Radio - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rap)
- WLLC 'The Zone' - Grand Theft Auto III
- WLSD - from the They Might Be Giants song "The End of the Tour" (Actual callsign issued to a Christian AM station in Big Stone Gap, Virginia)
- WLT ("With Lettuce and Tomato") - Garrison Keillor's novel WLT: A Radio Romance
- WMASS - Always Somethang album by Infinite Mass
- WMCY - Midland City, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions
- WNYX - New York, New York, NewsRadio TV show (all news)
- WOLD - from the song "W*O*L*D" by Harry Chapin
- WOMB - Springfield, USA, The Simpsons (easy listening)
- WOOF - Hoople, North Dakota, P. D. Q. Bach On The Air album by Peter Schickele
- WORM - Sesame Street
- WOW - Happy Days
- WPIG - Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati TV show (rival station to WKRP)
- WPND, "Western Pennsylvania's Country-Fried Radio" (in the Stephen King novel "From a Buick 8")
- WPRA, Stillwell, Wisconsin (in the Milton K. Ozaki novella "City of Sin", loosely representing WLIP)
- WQHG - Quahog, Rhode Island, Family Guy
- WREQ - Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati TV show (another station in Cincinnati)
- WSBD - Homestar Runner
- WSKID - "Skid Row Radio" - Little Shop Of Horrors
- WTNA - Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRP in Cincinnati TV show (another station in Cincinnati)
- WTWP/98.6 ("Wall-to-Wall Pachelbel") - Hoople, North Dakota, P. D. Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio album by Peter Schickele
- WUSA - New Orleans, Louisiana, WUSA (movie) (talk radio)
- WXRX, Gotham City (in "Batman Returns") (The actual call letters are issued to Rockford, Illinois.)
- WZAZ - Chicago, Illinois in Airplane! (movie) (Where Disco lives forever!) and in The Big Bus. The name is a reference to filmmakers David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. (Actual callsign is assigned to an AM radio station in Jacksonville, Florida.)
- WZUP ("Whazzup?") - Detroit, Michigan, Martin
[edit] Fictional Locations
- K-CAPE - Radio station in the fictional city-state of "Cape Suzette" in the Disney animated TV show TaleSpin
- WA3D - From a Strong Bad Email. The station's full name is "Numbity nine-oh-two, WA3D FM, The Sturge. It is most likely broadcast is "Free Country USA," which is where the characters live in the cartoon.
[edit] Extraterresrial
- LIVE 34 - Earth Colony 34 news station in the Doctor Who audio drama of the same name.
