movies about rock radio stations

I'm happy to report that FM is as bland and pointless as I'd always suspected. Not even Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull can save it.

That TV series "Throb", which was meant to be a reference to "heartthrob" but in those TG days, mmmmm....

Which one has Elvis Costello in it, singing “Crawling To the USA,” maybe?

^^That's Americathon.

Oh, yeah. It’s been a while, thanks

Not a movie, but it seems like WKRP In Cincinnati (the original series)>>>>>>>>>the rest of this genre.

Airheads

The TV series Takin' Over The Asylum

Only partially, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part II.

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Not a movie, but it seems like WKRP In Cincinnati (the original series)>>>>>>>>>the rest of this genre.

FP'd you for racism

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American Hot Wax (Alan Freed biopic)

^^Forgot about that one. There's a late '90s Freed TV biopic w/Judd Nelson that's surprisingly good.

Comfort and Joy

well that has a (partial) radio setting but it's not really about radio

The Boat That Rocked (titled Pirate Radio in North America, Good Morning England in France, Radio Rock Revolution in Germany and I Love Radio Rock in Italy[3]) is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting.

also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_radio_stations

xp it’s really bad

looks like it !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_radio_stations

pffft at Radio Norwich but no North Norfolk Digital

American Hot Wax (Alan Freed biopic)

― gjoon1, Monday, June 17, 2019 9:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That the one where Chuck Berry volunteers to play for free?

American Graffiti, where Richie Cunningham gets to meet Wolfman Jack?

^^ I was just going to ask if American Graffiti counted.

thanks for posting lords of salem shakey

the boat that rocked is truly abominable and features a ‘hilarious’ sex scene that is actually a rape, richard curtis is a monster

airheads on the other hand is good not bad

Not a movie, but I wish I could find a clip of the Saturday Night Live sketch where Harry Shearer was the sole DJ for a laid back FM and hyper-manic AM rock station.

oh man i'd forgotten all about that wolfman jack scene in american graffiti. maybe the best part of the movie though?

Never actually seen this - think it's p heavily indebted to Wenders - but it does have radio in the title and one of the characters is a DJ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_On

it was Dreyfuss not Howard who met Wolfman Jack

Sex and broadcasting, the documentary about WFMU is excellent.

The first Pitch Perfect was on TV last night, and I'd forgotten there was a very minor plotline about Mackenzie Astin and Anna Kendrick working together at the college radio station.

Oh yeah, of course, xpost times 2

If we’re taking TV shows, many of the best bits from Northern Exposure happen during the Chris in the Morning radio show.

Tim Curry IS DJ Johnny LaGuardia, in the 1980 movie Times Square

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^ one of the few that actually fits the thread

DJ's are key characters in Play Misty for Me and Vanishing Point, but I don't think you can say either station was a rock station.

Grosse Point Blank has some good rock radio station scenes

XP - Same with The Fog, but the horrible shopping mall/elevator library Jazz passed off as well known music, which is presumably all they could afford, is a source of amusement.

I have heard a rumor that Francis Ford Coppola is planning a biopic (or maybe a TV show) about Scott Muni from WNEW. Working title: Scottso

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_Me_(2007_film)

^^ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Radio_(play)