94-587: Carew Tower is a 49- story , 574-foot (175 m) Art Deco building completed in 1931 in the heart of downtown Cincinnati , Ohio , United States, overlooking the Ohio River waterfront. The structure is the second-tallest building in the city , and it was added to the register of National Historic Landmarks on April 19, 1994. The tower is named after Joseph T. Carew , proprietor of the Mabley & Carew department store chain, which had previously operated in
188-655: A Humanitas Prize and received 10 Emmy Award nominations, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series. Andy Ackerman won an Emmy Award for Videotape Editing in Season 3. WKRP premiered on September 18, 1978, on the CBS television network and aired for four seasons and 90 episodes, ending on April 21, 1982. Starting in the middle of the second season, CBS repeatedly moved the show around its schedule, contributing to lower ratings and its eventual cancellation. When WKRP went into syndication , it became an unexpected success. For
282-660: A five-pointed star (★) additionally appears beside the button for the main entry floor. In the United States , the five-pointed-star marking is mandated by Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , as described in Section 4.10.12(2) of the ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG). However this may be used to simply indicate a way out, such as to indicate
376-510: A sky lobby . As an example, the residential elevators at the John Hancock Center all have their main floors labeled as the 44th as in order to get from a residential floor to the ground one would need to take two elevators: one from the residences to the sky lobby, and the other from the sky lobby to the ground. In the event more than one floor could be considered main floor, such as when a building has exits on more than one floor,
470-609: A "1st floor" and a "ground floor", they may be labelled 1 and G, or M (for "Main") and LM (for "Lower Main"), the latter two being more common in Canada outside Quebec. M or MZ may also be used to designate a mezzanine level, when it is not counted as a separate floor in the building's numbering scheme. If an elevator has two doors, floors on one side might end up getting an R suffix for "rear", especially if on one floor both doors open. In modern signage, at least in North America,
564-665: A 7-storey building is called une maison à 6 (six) étages . Mezzanines may or may not be counted as storeys. This convention can be traced back to Medieval European usage. In countries that use this system, the floor at ground level is usually referred to by a special name, usually translating as "ground floor" or equivalent. For example, Erdgeschoss ("ground floor") in Germany (sometimes however, Parterre , adopted from French), piano terra or pianterreno (lit. "ground floor") in Italy, begane grond (lit. "trodden ground") in
658-476: A building need not be all the same height—often the lobby is taller, for example. One review of tall buildings suggests that residential towers may have 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) floor height for apartments, while a commercial building may have floor height of 3.9 m (12 ft 9.5 in) for the storeys leased to tenants. In such tall buildings (60 or more storeys), there may be utility floors of greater height. Additionally, higher levels may have less floor area than
752-596: A building on the site. The complex contains the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza (formerly Omni Netherland Plaza ), which is described as a fine example of Art Deco architecture. The hotel's Hall of Mirrors banquet room was inspired by the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles . Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza is a member of Historic Hotels of America , the official program of
846-620: A circumevention of construction regulations of the 19th and early 20th centuries), rez-de-chaussée (from French street level , where rez is the old French of ras ("scraped"), chaussée ("street"). ) in France, parter in Poland and Romania, prízemie ("by the ground") in Slovakia, and pritličje ("close to the ground") in Slovenia. In some countries that use this scheme,
940-400: A convention where there may be an "upper" and "lower" level of the same floor number, (e.g.: "1U/U1" = Upper 1st, "L2/2L" = "Lower 2nd" and so on), although the elevators will typically only serve one of the two levels, or the elevator lobby for each floor pair may be between the two levels. In 19th-century London, many buildings were built with the main entrance floor a meter above ground, and
1034-457: A cousin of creator Hugh Wilson, he was based primarily on innovative program director Mikel Herrington , who also was the inspiration for the character Jeff Dugan in the 1978 film FM , written by Ezra Sacks, who had worked at KMET. Dr. Johnny Fever was based on a DJ named "Skinny" Bobby Harper at WQXI/790 in Atlanta, Georgia in 1968. WKRP writer Bill Dial worked with Harper at WQXI, which
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#17327840405841128-518: A garden (called rez-de-jardin ). Buildings which have two "ground floors" at different levels (on two opposite faces, usually) might have both. The same differentiation is used as well in some buildings in Croatia. The lower level is called razizemlje (abbr. RA ), and the upper prizemlje (PR). If there is only one ground floor, it is called prizemlje . The latter usage is standard for smaller buildings, such as single-family homes. In
1222-466: A given building's floor designations are unregulated. Thus, some apartment buildings in the largest city, Ho Chi Minh City , have posted floor numbers according to the northern scheme, while others label the ground floor as "G" or the thirteenth floor as "12 bis ". An extremely small number of American high-rise buildings follow the British/European system, often out of a desire on
1316-536: A hallway, even numbers for rooms on the other side. An offset may be used to accommodate unnumbered floors. For example, in a building with floors labelled G, M, 1, 2, ..., 11 and 12, the fourth room in each of those floors could be numbered 1004, 1104, 1204, 1304, ..., 2204 and 2304, respectively—with an offset of 11 in the floor numbers. This trick is sometimes used to make the floor number slightly less obvious, e.g. for security or marketing reasons. In some buildings with numbered rooms, UK-like G, 1, ... floor numbering
1410-588: A large "Hunt of Diana" mural by Grell. These subjects echo similar ones that appear at the Palais de Versailles . The total cost of the building was US$ 33 million ($ 602 million in 2023 dollars). It took crews only 13 months to complete the construction, working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Through the 1930s, the Netherland Plaza Hotel was run by hotel industry pioneer Ralph Hitz 's National Hotel Management Company. From 1930 until 1960,
1504-554: A leading example of Art Deco architecture. It was designed by the architectural firm W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates with Delano & Aldrich and developed by John J. Emery . The original concept was a development that would include a department store, a theater, an office accommodation, and a hotel to rival the Waldorf-Astoria . Emery took on as partner with William A. Starrett (Starrett Investment Corp.) and Starrett Brothers, Inc. as general contractors. The building
1598-465: A relatively common solution is to simply have no star and have other indications to indicate a main floor. A less commonly used solution has more than one star. There is no particular standard convention for the numbering of levels below ground. In English-speaking countries, the first level below ground may be labelled B for "Basement", LL for "Lower Level" or "Lower Lobby", C for "Cellar", or U for "Underground". In British buildings, LG for "Lower Ground"
1692-479: Is also often used to indicate Street), C for "Casino" or "Concourse", R for "Restaurant" or Roof, PH for "Penthouse", OD for " observation deck ", W for Walkway, T for Tunnel, Ticketing or Trains, etc. In some US buildings, the label G on the elevator may stand for the building's "Garage", which need not be located on the "Ground" floor. Sometimes GR might be used instead. Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto marks
1786-489: Is commonly encountered. If there is more than one basement, either the next level down may be marked SB for "Sub-Basement" or all lower levels can be numbered B1, B2, B3, B n . Negative numbers are sometimes used, this being more common in Europe: −1 for the first level below ground, −2 for the second one, and so on. Letters are sometimes used: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, etc. There can also be split-level parking levels with
1880-416: Is considered Dial's inspiration for the show. Coincidentally, Harper had previously worked at Cincinnati AM Top 40 powerhouse WSAI in 1964, before moving to 11 other stations, including seven in Atlanta. In 1997, Bobby Harper told WSB's Condace Pressley, "He went on record as pointing out which ones, including myself, that he based the characters on. [That recognition] was a nice little thing. You know? That
1974-466: Is ever used it means the ground-level floor (although primer piso is used mainly for indoor areas, while planta baja is also used for areas outside the building). Most parts of East and Southeast Asia — including China (except for Hong Kong ), Japan, Korea, and Singapore — follow the American system. Indonesia uses both the American and European systems. In the grammar of the respective languages,
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#17327840405842068-418: Is often pitched and/or at a different height from that of other floors. A penthouse is a luxury apartment on the topmost storey of a building. A basement is a storey below the main or ground floor; the first (or only) basement of a home is also called the lower ground floor. Split-level homes have floors that are offset from each other by less than the height of a full storey. A mezzanine , in particular,
2162-579: Is often referred to, particularly in the United Kingdom, as a bungalow . The tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa , also has the greatest number of storeys with 163. The height of each storey is based on the ceiling height of the rooms plus the thickness of the floors between each pane. Generally this is around 3.0 m (10 ft) total; however, it varies widely from just under this figure to well over it. Storeys within
2256-612: Is reflected in newer buildings. Some buildings in Singapore do use SL (Street Level) for ground level, while others such as Nex and West Coast Plaza uses the European scheme, albeit using "Basement 1" for ground level storey. Vietnam uses both the North American and European schemes, generally depending on the region. In northern and central Vietnam, including the capital Hanoi , tầng refers to any floor, including
2350-400: Is sometimes used to separate the floor from the room (2.15 refers to 2nd floor, 15th room and 21.5 refers to 21st floor, 5th room) or a leading zero is placed before a single-digit room number (i.e. the 5th room of floor 21 would be 2105). Letters may be used, instead of digits, to identify the room within the floor—such as 21E instead of 215. Often odd numbers are used for rooms on one side of
2444-515: Is typically a floor halfway between two floors. Floor numbering is the numbering scheme used for a building's floors. There are two major schemes in use across the world. In the first system, used in such countries as the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Norway, Russia, and other ex-Soviet states, the number of floors is counted literally; that is, when one enters a building through the ground-level front door, one walks quite literally on
2538-600: Is used, but with rooms numbered from 200 on the "first floor" (above the ground floor), 300 on the 2nd floor, and so on (which actually resembles US-like floor numbering). WKRP in Cincinnati WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati , Ohio . The show was created by Hugh Wilson and
2632-451: Is widely considered to be an early prototype of an urban mixed-use development, a "city within a city". New York City's Rockefeller Center , built around the same time, is a more famous example of this concept. The building was originally designed with three towers: the tallest housing offices, the second the hotel, and the third serving as a parking garage which had an elevator rather than traditional ramps for access. The third parking tower
2726-569: The Adult Contemporary chart in 1982. The show's use of Blondie 's " Heart of Glass " was widely credited with helping the song become a major U.S. hit, and the band's record label Chrysalis Records presented the producers with a gold record award for the song's album Parallel Lines . The gold record can be seen hanging on the wall in the "bullpen" set in many episodes. The songs were often tied into episode plots, and some pieces of music were even used as running gags. For example,
2820-585: The Great Depression . Because of this, construction was continued on a modified plan. Art Deco stylistic motifs can be found throughout the building, particularly in the metalwork and areas surrounding the elevators and lights. Locally-made Rookwood Pottery floral tiles adorn the east and west entrances of the building. Sculpture on the exterior and interior of the building were executed by New York City architectural sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan . Eighteen Louis Grell murals can be found throughout
2914-566: The Mabley & Carew department store, included a clock tower and hydraulic elevators. Following the death of J.T. Carew in 1914, the building was purchased by a real estate corporation founded by Cincinnati industrialist Thomas Emery . By the summer of 1929, the Carew Building had been demolished to build the new tower. Construction began in September 1929, just one month before the stock market crash on October 24 that triggered
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3008-642: The National Trust for Historic Preservation . The tower remained the city's tallest until the completion of the Great American Tower at Queen City Square on July 13, 2010, rising 86 ft (26 m) higher than Carew Tower. The Carew Tower replaced the late nineteenth-century Carew Building, a nine-story structure built in 1891 in the Romanesque style, designed by Cincinnati architect James W. McLaughlin . The Carew Building, home to
3102-588: The entresuelo or entresòl and principal are marked E and P, respectively. In France, floors are usually marked the same way as in Spain; however, the letters for the ground floor are RDC ( rez-de-chaussée ), seldom simplified to RC. This scheme is also found in some buildings in Quebec. Where these exist, there are high ground RCH ( rez-de-chaussée haut ) and lower ground RCB ( rez-de-chaussée bas ), or garden ground RJ ( rez-de-jardin ) and former ground RC. In Portugal,
3196-399: The thirteenth floor in their floor numbering because of triskaidekaphobia , a common superstition surrounding this number. The floor numbering may either go straight from 12 to 14, or the floor may be given an alternative name such as "Skyline" or "14A". Due to a similar superstition in east Asia, some mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indonesian buildings (typically high-rises) omit or skip
3290-420: The "upper" or "lower" level from each intermediate landing. This halves any building costs associated with elevator shaft doors. Where the total traffic necessitates a second elevator the alternate floors strategy is sometimes still applied, not only for the doorway reduction but also, provisionally upon the passengers preferring no particular floor beyond capacity, it tends toward halving the total delay imposed by
3384-675: The 1979–80 season. At the end of the fourth season, the network canceled WKRP . The final first-run episode of WKRP aired on April 21, 1982, and ranked No. 7 in the weekly Nielsen ratings , though the series had already been canceled. WKRP was videotaped in Hollywood before a live studio audience at KTLA 's Goldenwest Videotape Division , later moving to the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City. While Andy Travis received his name and some personality elements from
3478-448: The 4th floor along with other floor numbers ending in 4 such as 14 and 24. The floor above the third would be numbered as the fifth, and so on. This is because of tetraphobia : in many varieties of Chinese, the pronunciation of the word for "four" is very similar to the pronunciation of the word for "to die". Through Chinese cultural and linguistic influence, tetraphobia is common in many countries of East Asia. For this reason, apartments on
3572-621: The 4th floor in Asian countries such as Taiwan have traditionally been cheaper to rent. In Hong Kong, the British numbering system is now generally used, in English and Chinese alike. In some older residential buildings, however, the floors are identified by signs in Chinese characters that say " 二樓 " ("2 floor") at the floor just above ground, as in the North American system. For those buildings,
3666-536: The Carew Tower was the home of the Mabley & Carew department store. From 1967 to 1980, the Carew Tower and the neighboring Fourth and Vine Tower , then called the Central Trust Bank tower, were featured in the opening and closing credits of the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night , which used Cincinnati as the stand-in for the show's fictional locale of "Monticello". Procter & Gamble ,
3760-586: The Chinese phrase " 三樓 " or its English equivalent "3rd floor" may refer either to the storey three levels above ground (as in the modern numbering), which is actually labelled " 四樓 " ("4 floor"), or to the storey with the sign " 三樓 " ("3 floor"), which is only two levels above ground. This confusing state of affairs has led, for example, to numerous errors in utility billing. To avoid ambiguity, business forms often ask that storey numbers in address fields be written as accessed from an elevator . In colloquial speeches,
3854-558: The European scheme was formerly used (as in France), but by now it has been mostly replaced by the US system, so that rez-de-chaussée and premier étage ("first stage") are now generally equivalent in Quebec. Mexico, on the other hand, uses the European system. The North American scheme is used in Finland , Norway , and Iceland . The Icelandic term jarðhæð ("ground floor") refers to
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3948-678: The Hawaiian-language floor label uses the British system, but the English-language floor label uses the American system. For example, Papa akolu (P3) is equivalent to Level 4 (4 or L4). In Greenland, the Greenlandic-language floor label uses the American system, but the Danish-language floor label uses the British system. Plan pingasut (P3) is equivalent to Level 2 ( Plan to or P2). In most of
4042-611: The Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel on the bottom floor: 10 wall-to-ceiling murals in the hotel's original lobby, now the Palm Court; four murals in the Continental Room; two above the side entry staircase. The staircase mural says "Welcome Travelers" and the four in the Continental Room represent the four seasons of the year. The 90-foot long Apollo Gallery includes an "Apollo on Chariot" mural and
4136-754: The Netherlands, planta baja (Castilian) or planta baixa (Catalan) in Spain (both meaning "bottom floor"), beheko solairua in Basque, andar térreo ("ground floor") in Brazil, rés-do-chão ("adjacent to the ground") in Portugal, földszint ("ground level") in Hungary (although in Budapest the félemelet ("half floor", i.e. mezzanine ) is an extra level between the ground and first floors, apparently
4230-492: The Prairie . The show initially earned poor ratings, and WKRP was put on hiatus after only eight episodes, even though they included some of the most famous of the series, including " Turkeys Away ." But owing to good reviews and positive fan reaction, especially from disc jockeys, who immediately hailed it as the first show that realistically portrayed the radio business, CBS brought WKRP back without any cast changes. WKRP
4324-571: The US, ground floor is synonymous with first floor , leading to differing numberings of floors, depending on region – even between different national varieties of English. The words storey and floor normally exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof , such as the terrace on the rooftops of many buildings. Nevertheless, a flat roof on a building is counted as a floor in other languages, for instance dakvloer in Dutch , literally "roof-floor", simply counted one level up from
4418-462: The United States, the first floor and ground floor are usually equivalent, being at ground level, and may also be called the "lobby" or "main floor" to indicate the entrance to the building. The storey just above it is the second floor, and so on. The English-speaking parts of Canada generally follow the American convention, although Canada has kept the Commonwealth spelling "storey". In Quebec ,
4512-496: The building) and a "ground floor" below it. This typically happens when both floors have street-level entrances, as is often the case for hillside buildings with walkout basements . In the UK, the lower of these floors would be called the "lower ground floor", while the upper would be called either the "upper ground floor" or simply the "ground floor". Multi-storey car parks which have a staggered arrangement of parking levels sometimes use
4606-485: The character " 唐 " maybe added before the number to emphasize it refers to the Chinese style of numbering, e.g. " 唐三樓 " (literally "Chinese 3 floor"), or the character " 字 " added after the number to refer to the British style of numbering as shown in an elevator, e.g. 2 字樓 (literally "2 digit floor", floor with number 2), while in writing in Chinese, Chinese numerals are used for Chinese style numbering, and Arabic numerals are used for British style numbering. In Hawaii,
4700-517: The characters' lines were dubbed by soundalike actors, a practice evident in all prints of the show issued since the early 1990s, including those used for its late-1990s run on Nick at Nite . The expense of procuring licenses for the original music delayed release of a DVD set for years. When a Season 1 set was finally released, much of the music was again replaced and the soundalike vocal dubs were present. Some scenes were shortened or cut entirely, but some deleted scenes that had not been included in
4794-401: The city's heritage, Carew Tower was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994. The observation deck is closed. In August 2022, the building sold for $ 18 million (USD) to Victrix Investments LLC. The building is to undergo residential conversion. In November 2023, wind hit scaffolding while the building was undergoing renovation, causing bricks to fall from the tower. The Carew Tower is
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#17327840405844888-420: The difference from the original scheme, reference is frequently made to storeys rather than floors, where the third (3rd) floor becomes either the fourth (4th) storey/level (storey/level 4). Many buildings continue to label storeys or levels rather than floors. However, in the absence of clear official distinction between the terms, the meaning of "floors" and "levels" have become interchangeable with "storey"; this
4982-451: The doorbell at Jennifer's penthouse apartment played " Fly Me to the Moon " (which was later replaced by " Beautiful Dreamer " for copyright reasons). Wilson has commented that WKRP was videotaped rather than filmed because at the time, music-licensing fees were lower for videotaped programs, a loophole that was intended to accommodate variety shows. Music licensing deals that were cut at
5076-752: The easy-listening format, to be himself on-air. Rounding out the cast are " bombshell " receptionist Jennifer Marlowe and junior employee Bailey Quarters . Ruthless business tycoon Lillian Carlson appears periodically as the station's owner and the mother of Arthur Carlson. Throughout its run WKRP featured appearances by several high-profile guest stars, including Colleen Camp , Sparky Anderson , Hoyt Axton and Michael Des Barres . Hamilton Camp , Craig T. Nelson , and Robert Ridgely also appeared in supporting roles. WKRP in Cincinnati debuted in 1978 in CBS's Monday 8 p.m. timeslot, competing against ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter and NBC's top-20 show Little House on
5170-467: The first floor ; the storey above it therefore counts as the second floor . In the other system, used in the majority of European countries, floor at ground level is called the "ground floor", frequently having no number (or "0"); the next floor up is assigned the number 1 and is the first floor (first elevation ), the first basement level gets '−1', and so on. In both systems, the numbering of higher floors continues sequentially as one goes up, as shown in
5264-453: The first season's DVD set that this was not true. Sanders would later "sing" the lyrics in a promo spot on VH1 for The New WKRP in Cincinnati that parodied the U2 song " Numb ." The closing theme was a different song with more of a hard rock sound performed by Atlanta musician Jim Ellis, played over scenes from the episodes followed by a still photo of the Cincinnati skyline. Ellis recorded
5358-591: The first six floors as A, L, MM, C, H and 1 (for "Arcade", "Lobby", "Main Mezzanine", "Convention", "Health Club" and "1st floor"). The North Carolina Museum of Art , whose entrance is on the third floor up, has the floors lettered C, B, A (the main floor) and O (for "Office"). The Festival Walk mall in Hong Kong has floors labelled LG2 and LG1 ("Lower Ground 2" and "1"), G ("Ground") and UG ("Upper Ground"). In The Landmark Annex of TriNoma , DSn (n=floor) denotes
5452-444: The floor at ground level. European scheme: In many Latin American countries (including Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela) the ground floor is called planta baja and the next floor is primer piso . In Brazil the ground floor is called térreo and the next floor is primeiro andar . In other countries, including Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the ground floor is called primer piso (first floor). If planta baja
5546-415: The floor below that being two meters below ground. This was done partly for aesthetics, and partly to allow access between the lower level and the street without going through the main floor. In this situation, the lower level is called Lower Ground, the main floor is called Upper Ground, and floors above it are numbered serially from 1. Sometimes, floor number 1 may be the lowest basement level; in that case
5640-430: The floor label of the department store area. In modern buildings, especially large ones, room numbers are usually tied to the floor numbers, so that one can figure out the latter from the former. Typically one uses the floor number with one or two extra digits appended to identify the room within the floor. For example, room 215 could be the 15th room of floor 2 (or 5th room of floor 21), but to avoid this confusion one dot
5734-459: The floor number that it covers. A two-storey house or home extension is sometimes referred to as double-storey in the UK, while one storey is referred to as single-storey . Houses commonly have only one or two floors, although three- and four-storey houses also exist. Buildings are often classified as low-rise , mid-rise and high-rise according to how many levels they contain, but these categories are not well-defined. A single-storey house
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#17327840405845828-643: The following table: Each scheme has further variations depending on how one refers to the ground floor and the subterranean levels. The existence of two incompatible conventions is a common source of confusion in international communication. However, in all English-speaking countries, the storeys in a building are counted in the same way: a "seven-storey building" is unambiguous, although the top floor would be called "6th floor" in Britain and "7th floor" in America. This contrasts, for example, with French usage, where
5922-428: The ground floor ( parter ) and S for basement ( suterena ). Elevators installed since 1990 have 0 for parter and −1, −2 etc. for underground floors. In countries using the North American system, where "floor 1" is the same as "ground floor", the corresponding button may be marked either with 1 or with a letter, as in the European scheme. In either case, the next button will be labelled 2. In buildings that have both
6016-476: The ground floor button is marked with a letter, some digital position indicators may show 0 when the elevator is on that floor. If the building also contains floors below ground, negative numbers are common. This then gives a conventional numbering sequence −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ... In Spain and other countries whose official language is Spanish or Portuguese, the ground floor is usually marked PB ( planta baja , planta baixa , etc.), and in buildings where these exist,
6110-399: The ground floor may be numbered 2 or higher. Sometimes two connected buildings (such as a store and its car park) have incongruent floor numberings, due to sloping terrain or different ceiling heights. To avoid this, shopping centers may call the main floors by names such as Upper Mall, Lower Mall, Lower Ground, with the parking floors being numbered P n . In some instances, buildings may omit
6204-415: The ground floor, which is called tầng 1 . Meanwhile, in southern Vietnam, trệt refers to the ground floor and lầu refers to any floor above it, starting at lầu 1 directly above the ground floor. A national standard, TCVN 6003-1:2012 ( ISO 4157 -1:1998), requires architectural drawings to follow the northern scheme. It also refers to a crawl space as tầng 0 . However,
6298-628: The higher floors may be explicitly qualified as being above the ground level, such as in Slovenian prvo nadstropje (literally "first floor above ceiling (of the ground storey)"). In many countries in Europe, the second storey is called the "first floor", for being the first elevation. Besides Europe, this scheme is mostly used in some large Latin American countries (including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), and British Commonwealth nations (except Singapore and Canada ). In Spain,
6392-504: The letters corresponding to the ground floor are R/C ( rés-do-chão ) or simply R. For example, in the Polish language there is a clear distinction: the word parter means ground floor and piętro means a floor above the parter , usually with an ordinal: 1st piętro , 2nd piętro etc. Therefore, a parter is the zeroth piętro . Older elevators in Poland have button marked P for
6486-481: The level above ground level (the mezzanine ) is sometimes called entresuelo ( entresòl in Catalan, etc., which literally means "interfloor"), and elevators may skip it. When the next level is different from the others, usually with higher ceiling and better decorations, then it is called principal (main floor) . This is because before elevators the apartments in the floor that required less stairs to reach
6580-551: The lower one having the suffix "A" and the upper having the suffix "B", like "1A", "1B", "2A", "2B", etc. Elevators in split-level buildings normally stop at either the lower or upper level, and the levels in elevators may be named just "1", "2", etc. Elevator buttons may also be labelled according to their main function. In English-speaking countries, besides the common L for "Lobby", one may find P for " Platform " (in train stations), "Pool" or " Parking " (and P1, P2, P3, P n for multiple parking floors), S for "Skyway" or "Street" (ST
6674-624: The next decade, it was one of the most popular sitcoms in syndication, outperforming many programs that had been more successful in prime time, including all the other MTM Enterprises sitcoms. Jump, Sanders, and Bonner reprised their roles as regular characters in a sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati , which ran from 1991 to 1993 in syndication. Hesseman, Reid, and Anderson also reprised their roles as guest stars. The station's new program director, Andy Travis , tries to turn around struggling radio station WKRP by switching its format from dated easy-listening music to rock and roll , despite
6768-482: The numbers precede the word "floor", and are cardinals rather than ordinals , so they would translate literally as "1 floor (1F), 2 floor (2F)" (etc.), rather than "1st floor, 2nd floor", or "floor 1, floor 2". In Singapore, the British system of numbering originally prevailed. This was replaced in March 1983 with the North American scheme to create a simplified and consistent standard of numbering storeys. To emphasize
6862-484: The ones beneath them (e.g., the Willis Tower ). In English the principal floor or main floor of a house is the floor that contains the chief apartments ; it is usually the ground floor, or the floor above. In Italy the main floor of a home was traditionally above the ground level and was called the piano nobile ("noble floor"). The attic or loft is a storey just below the roof of the building; its ceiling
6956-401: The original broadcast were added. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the first season of WKRP on DVD in region 1 in 2007, with a number of music replacements. Sales of the set were poor, and Fox released no further seasons. In 2014, Shout! Factory acquired rights to the series for DVD release. Shout! had planned to include all of the copyrighted music that originally aired on
7050-483: The other closing the show. The opening theme, a soft rock /pop number called "WKRP in Cincinnati Main Theme," was composed by Tom Wells, with lyrics by series creator Hugh Wilson , and was performed by Steve Carlisle. An urban legend circulated at the time that Richard Sanders (who had comparable vocal characteristics to those of Carlisle) had recorded the song. Wilson stated in the commentary for
7144-424: The part of the building's architect or owners. An arrangement often found in high rise public housing blocks , particularly those built in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, is that elevators would only call at half the total number of floors, or at an intermediate level between a pair of floors; for example an elevator of a 24-storey building would only stop at 12 levels, with staircases used to access
7238-550: The show's producer, is based in Cincinnati. From 1978 to 1982, the building was featured in the opening and closing credits on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati . Today, the building is home to a mixed group of tenants, including a shopping arcade, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, and offices. Visitors can access the observation deck located on the 49th floor. On a clear day, visitors can see for miles in all directions, and three states ( Kentucky , Indiana , Ohio). Because of its architectural standards, as well as its identity with
7332-460: The show, and obtained the rights to include what they called "the vast majority of the music", but explained, "In a few cases, it was simply impossible to get the rights." Most of the dialogue dubs done for the 1990s syndication airings were removed, and the original dialogue restored. This release presented the second-season episode "Filthy Pictures" and the third-season episode "Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide" in their original hour-long formats instead of
7426-568: The show, WKRP's offices and studios are in the Osgood R. Flimm Building, an art deco office building. The building shown during the show's opening credits is actually the Cincinnati Enquirer Building at 617 Vine Street in downtown Cincinnati. Cincinnati has two radio stations with call letters similar to WKRP . WKRC , an AM station that had a " middle of the road " music format when the series debuted, did not object to
7520-463: The similarity of the spoken letter " N " to the word " in " for a sound-alike station identification : "W KRPN Salt Lake City". In 2008, Cincinnati television station WBQC-LD promoted its conversion to digital broadcasting by rebranding itself "WKRP-TV". In 2015, a low-power FM station in Raleigh, North Carolina began broadcasting as WKRP-LP . WKRP had two musical themes, one opening and
7614-573: The song as a demonstration for Wilson, and as he had not yet written lyrics for it, Ellis mumbled nonsense words. Wilson chose to use the demo version because he found the gibberish lyrics funny and a satire on the unintelligible lyrics of many rock songs. A longer version of the original theme song was released in 1979 on a 45-rpm vinyl single on the MCA Records label. It peaked at 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981 and at 29 on
7708-402: The stops en route. Sometimes, two elevators are divided so that all floors are served, but one elevator only serves odd floors and the other even, which would often be less efficient for passengers, but cheaper to install because the group control of elevators was more complex than single control. A few buildings in the United States and Canada have both a "first floor" (usually the main floor of
7802-538: The time of production covered only a limited number of years, but when the show entered syndication shortly after its 1982 cancellation, most of the original music remained intact because the licensing deals were still active. After the licenses had expired, later syndicated versions of the show did not feature the music as first broadcast, with stock production music inserted in place of the original songs to avoid paying additional royalties . In some cases (such as during scenes with dialogue over background music), some of
7896-475: The use of WKRP , saying that it was the best publicity that they had ever had, and it was free; it currently brands itself (as it did during the show's run) as "55KRC". WKRQ is an FM station with a similar "contemporary hit radio" format; its primary branding is "Q102." Other stations have adopted similar branding in reference to the series. In 1986, a Salt Lake City FM station (now KUMT ) changed its calls letters to KRPN, and branded itself as WKRP , using
7990-447: The well-meaning efforts of the mostly incompetent staff: bumbling station manager Arthur Carlson , greasy sales manager Herb Tarlek and clueless news director Les Nessman . To help bolster ratings, Travis hires a new disc jockey, New Orleans native Gordon Sims (with the on-air persona of Venus Flytrap ) and allows spaced-out former major-market DJ John Caravella (with the on-air persona of Dr. Johnny Fever ), already doing mornings in
8084-443: The word are storeys (UK) and stories (US). The terms floor , level , or deck are used in similar ways (i.e. "the 16th floor "), but to refer to buildings it is more usual to speak of a "16- storey building". The floor at ground or street level is called the "ground floor" (i.e. it needs no number; the floor below it is called "basement", and the floor above it is called "first") in many regions. However, in some regions, like
8178-419: The world, elevator buttons for storeys above the ground level are usually marked with the corresponding numbers. In many countries, modern elevators also have Braille numbers—often mandated by law. In countries using the European system, the ground floor is either marked 0, or with the initial letter of the local word for ground floor (G, E, etc.), successive floors are then marked 1, 2, etc. However, even when
8272-401: Was added to accommodate scenes with the entire cast. Partway through the second season, the show was moved back to its original earlier time. CBS executives wanted to free up the prized post- M*A*S*H slot for House Calls (with former M*A*S*H star Wayne Rogers ). They also felt that the rock and roll music and the sex appeal of Loni Anderson were better suited to the earlier slot, which
8366-567: Was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, including many of the characters. Wilson once told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he selected WKRP as the call sign to stand for C-R-A-P. The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy (as Andy Travis), Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever), Gordon Jump (Arthur Carlson), Loni Anderson (Jennifer Marlowe), Tim Reid (Venus Flytrap), Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters), Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) and Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek). The series won
8460-450: Was demolished in 1980 due to corrosion from road salt. There was also a turntable for vehicles to assist in pointing delivery trucks in the right direction. The system has since been dismantled. Storey A storey ( Commonwealth English ) or story ( American English ; see spelling differences ), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for
8554-412: Was given a new timeslot, one of the best on the network, following M*A*S*H . This allowed creator Hugh Wilson to move away from the farcical radio-based stories that CBS wanted and to start telling stories that, while not necessarily dramatic, were more low-key and character-based. To allow the ensemble cast to mingle more, the set was expanded. A previously unseen communal office area ("the bullpen")
8648-455: Was mostly aimed at young people. The mid-season timeslot change did not affect the show's success; WKRP finished at No. 22 in the ratings for its second year. For the next two seasons, the writers and producers often fought with CBS over the show's content in the so-called family hour . Starting with the second season, CBS moved WKRP around repeatedly, and the show lost nearly 2.5 million viewers on average for each of four timeslot changes in
8742-461: Was nice. I appreciated that." The Carlsons were a pastiche of Jerry Blum, WQXI's longtime general manager. Mrs. Carlson inherited Blum's brashness while Arthur borrowed his nickname "Big Guy," sense of style, and some of his unorthodox promotions (including the turkey drop). Although the show aired on CBS, the self-supporting transmission tower seen at the beginning of WKRP in Cincinnati actually belongs to Cincinnati's NBC affiliate, WLWT . In
8836-445: Was the most expensive and usually also the most luxurious one. In those cases the "first floor" can therefore be two or three levels above ground level. In Italy, in the ancient palaces the first floor is called piano nobile ("noble floor"), since the noble owners of the palace lived there. In France, there are two distinct names for storeys at ground level, depending on whether it faces the street (called rez-de-chaussée , ) or
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