# Fictional media outlets **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681 "2005-05-26T23:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/1 "2005-05-26T23:58:59Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/2 "2005-05-27T00:04:42Z")
One of the shows the West Wing characters always appear as talking heads on is called “Capitol Beat”. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/3 "2005-05-27T00:04:55Z")
The Showtime series [Beggars & Choosers](http://www.tuc-watkins.com/bc/review2.html) featured a fictional television network called LGT. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/4 "2005-05-27T00:17:01Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > the Daily Bugle newspaper (Batman) Not only did you get the character wrong (Spider-Man), but you muffed the publisher, too (Marvel). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/5 "2005-05-27T00:23:11Z")
The UBS television network that Howard Beale(Peter Finch) played the anchor for, in _Network_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/6 "2005-05-27T00:25:40Z")
Ooh, forgot. ISN(Interstellar News Network) from Babylon 5. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/7 "2005-05-27T00:32:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/8 "2005-05-27T00:33:31Z")
Billy Batson can transform into Captain Marvel with the magic word SHAZAM! He is the famous Boy Radio Announcer on Radio Station WHIZ. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/9 "2005-05-27T00:36:12Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/10 "2005-05-27T00:43:35Z")
Silver Age Superman worked for the TV station WGBS for a time. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/11 "2005-05-27T00:48:15Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Billy Batson can transform into Captain Marvel with the magic word SHAZAM! > > He is the famous Boy Radio Announcer on Radio Station WHIZ. Oooh! That was my 12,000 post on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/12 "2005-05-27T00:49:38Z")
I thought Frasier worked at KACL. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/13 "2005-05-27T00:50:53Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > I thought Frasier worked at KACL. Typo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/14 "2005-05-27T00:55:45Z")
Harry Chapin’s “WOLD” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-media-outlets/305681/15 "2005-05-27T01:24:49Z")
The Daily Star (early Superman)\ Wonderful Radio WINO (George Carlin) KCUF (Thomas Pynchon, _The Crying of Lot 49_ Spell it backwards 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_