- Andy Travis joins the WKRP staff as program director and institutes sudden changes that most of the eccentric staff and the station's cantankerous owner don't immediately like.
- Andy Travis joins the crew at WKRP in Cincinatti as Program Manager from Santa Fe and decides to shake things up. First, he changes the music format from Muzak slash Swing to Rock, Punk and Top 40. DJ Johnny Caravella morphs into Dr. Johnny Fever, to dispense the perfect prescription for his "fellow babies." Next, Andy hires night-time sensation, Dr. Venus Flytrap, from New Orleans...probably away from 870 AM.—LA-Lawyer
- Andy has moved lock, stock and barrel from his hometown of Santa Fe to Cincinnati to start his new job as Program Director at WKRP, the job which he was offer by Mr. Carlson, the Station Manager, over the telephone without the two ever having met face-to-face. It isn't until Andy arrives at the station that he learns that there have been a string of recent Program Directors who have not lasted more than a day before being fired. He also faces passive-aggressive behavior from Les and Herb, the News Director (including traffic, weather, sports and most importantly hog futures) and Sales and Promotions Manager respectively, who applied for the Program Director job in their want to implement their own preferred format for the station, All News and Talk Radio respectively, to match their current functional area. Andy wants to change the format from the existing Beautiful Music, which he considers outdated, to Rock 'n' Roll. In doing so, he foresees the station going from losing its current $100,000 per year to making far in excess of that amount by the second year of operation. Even the insomniac morning DJ, who is working for a change under his given name of Johnny Caravella at WKRP and who has worked in a Rock 'n' Roll format in the past using various pseudonyms at other stations, sees Rock 'n' Roll as a job for DJs half his age. But when Andy unilaterally makes the decision to change the format to Rock 'n' Roll, he will find at least one existing staff member who has a change of heart, this change fostering a renaissance in his life. Andy will further find that it isn't feckless Mr. Carlson he has to be worried about, but rather Mr. Carlson's mother, "Mother Carlson", who owns the station and truly is the boss. Andy further brings into this hornets' nest Venus Flytrap who he's hired from a radio station in New Orleans to be the nighttime DJ, Venus who brings more visible changes to WKRP to shake things up than just the format.—Huggo
- Arthur Carlson, general manager of the moribund beautiful-music station WKRP in Cincinnati, hires young hotshot program director Andy Travis to turn the station around. When Andy changes the format of the station to rock n' roll, he faces the wrath of the station's owner, who happens to be Mr. Carlson's mother.—Anonymous
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