Although there is no actual FM radio station with the call sign WYBS, during the 1970s there was a pirate station in Hartford, Connecticut, operating as WYBS at 88.9 MHz. The fictional WYBS in the show transmits at 89.3 FM.
Jolene Purdy (Dodee) and Dean Norris (Big Jim) previously worked together on the hit TV show Breaking Bad (2008).