Now here’s a thread topic I don’t believe anyone has done yet. Media (television networks, radio stations, newspapers, news shows) from any fictional source - be it novel, film, television show, comic book, whatever.
Examples:
the Daily Planet newspaper (Superman)
the Daily Bugle newspaper (Batman)
WKRP radio station (WKRP in Cinncinati)
FYI television show (Murphy Brown)
Got any other examples?
One of the shows the West Wing characters always appear as talking heads on is called “Capitol Beat”.
The Showtime series Beggars & Choosers featured a fictional television network called LGT.
rjung
May 27, 2005, 12:17am
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Not only did you get the character wrong (Spider-Man), but you muffed the publisher, too (Marvel).
Baker
May 27, 2005, 12:23am
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The UBS television network that Howard Beale(Peter Finch) played the anchor for, in Network .
Baker
May 27, 2005, 12:25am
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Ooh, forgot. ISN(Interstellar News Network) from Babylon 5.
WJM TV in Minneapolis where Mary (Tyler Moore) Richards produced the news and Ted Baxter mangled it.
The Los Angeles Tribune where Lou Grant went after he was fired from WJM.
Billy Batson can transform into Captain Marvel with the magic word SHAZAM!
He is the famous Boy Radio Announcer on Radio Station WHIZ.
Morbo
May 27, 2005, 12:36am
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Radio
WZAZ - Where Disco lives forever! (Airplane)
WPIG (WKRP’s rival station)
KBBL (Simpsons)
KAKL (Frasier)
Newspapers
The Daily Supernova (Futurama)
The New New York Post (Futurama)
The Springfield Shopper (Simpsons)
Magazines
Hush-Hush (L.A. Confidential)
Victoria’s Circuit (Futurama)
Non-Threatening Threatening Boys magazine (Simpsons)
Blue Pants Weekly (Simpsons)
Silver Age Superman worked for the TV station WGBS for a time.
Oooh!
That was my 12,000 post on the SDMB.
dwyr
May 27, 2005, 12:49am
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I thought Frasier worked at KACL.
The Daily Star (early Superman)\
Wonderful Radio WINO (George Carlin)
KCUF (Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Network 23 (Max Headroom)
Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. (On the Air – short-lived David Lynch TV series)
WOOF, the radio station of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople (P.D.Q. Bach)
FYI – TV newsmagazine starring Murphy Brown
The Morning Post (and several others) – His Girl Friday/The Front Page