The Turkey Drop, WKRP in Cincinnati

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4. Yes. The show's creator, Hugh Wilson worked as a salesman

for a time at WQXI Atlanta. ( Dr. Johnny Fever is based on QXI jock Skinny Bobby Harper.) The GM at the station when Wilson worked there later told him about a Thanksgiving promotion a station in Texas did while he was working there. They dropped the turkeys from the back of a flatbed truck, but the result was pretty much the same.

Wilson’s response when he heard the story? “You just won me an Emmy!”