PARIS (AP) — Marseille followed its embarrassing Champions League exit by throwing away a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw at Paris FC in Ligue 1 on Saturday.
Players stood with hands on hips at the final whistle after yet another sloppy performance where poor defending resurfaced.
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Marseille's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's head coach Roberto De Zerbi gives instructions during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal, right, scores his side's 2nd goal from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's Facundo Medina reacts after Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal scoring from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, center, reacts after Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal scoring from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
“I’m taking this badly, very badly. It’s difficult to explain," Marseille coach Roberto De Zerbi said. "The lights went out in the last 10 minutes.”
Marseille's 3-0 loss at Club Brugge on Wednesday, coupled with Benfica's remarkable injury-time goal against Real Madrid, sent De Zerbi's side into 25th place in the Champions League table and into the elimination zone.
De Zerbi's side took an early lead at Paris FC thanks to a Mason Greenwood penalty and the English forward set up veteran striker Pierre-Emerick to make it 2-0 in the 54th.
Then it went wrong for Marseille, which has long been hindered by a lack of composure.
Paris FC winger Jonathan Ikoné scored in the 82nd and midfielder Ilan Kebbal equalized with a stoppage-time penalty, after goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli clumsily fouled a player when claiming a high ball.
Not for the first time, De Zerbi questioned the attitude of his players.
“In order to win you need to be hungry, to show desire until the end," De Zerbi said. ”It's a quality you need to have and I've told the players this."
Marseille was six points behind second-placed Paris Saint-Germain — which plays on Sunday — and seven adrift of leader Lens, which won on Friday.
De Zerbi now needs to motivate his players for a French Cup tie at home to Rennes on Tuesday.
“That match could come tonight or in one year, it changes nothing because what we're doing right now isn't good enough,” De Zerbi said. “We have to be ready, give everything.”
Monaco routed Rennes 4-0 at Stade Louis II for a third straight clean sheet.
After scraping into the Champions League playoffs in midweek, Monaco won with goals from Ansu Fati, Maghnes Akliouche, Mamadou Coulibaly and Stanis Idumbo.
Fati put Monaco ahead in the 33rd with a neat finish into the bottom left corner from the right of the penalty area. It was the former Barcelona prodigy's seventh league goal in 13 games.
Akliouche made it 2-0 in the 50th with a tap-in and Coulibaly latched onto a clever pass from Mika Biereth shortly after. Biereth then set up Idumbo with a cross from the right.
Despite the win, Monaco's Ultras again chanted for chief executive Thiago Scuro to resign.
In Saturday's other game, defender Arsène Kouassi scored from an 89th-minute free kick as mid-table Lorient beat struggling Nantes 2-1.
Defending champion PSG plays at Strasbourg on Sunday.
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Marseille's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's head coach Roberto De Zerbi gives instructions during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal, right, scores his side's 2nd goal from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's Facundo Medina reacts after Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal scoring from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Marseille's Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, center, reacts after Paris FC's Ilan Kebbal scoring from the penalty spot during the French League One soccer match between Paris FC and Marseille in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Hold on to those Thanksgiving turkeys! WKRP is coming to Cincinnati — for real this time.
“I cannot, by contract, tell you when. I cannot tell you who. But I can tell you, direct to the camera, WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to Cincinnati,” D.P. McIntire, who runs the media nonprofit that is auctioning the famous call letters, told The Associated Press. “Book it! It’s done!”
The call sign was made famous by “WKRP in Cincinnati,” a CBS television sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982. It made stars of actors like Loni Anderson and Richard Sanders, whose bumbling newsman Les Nessman reported on a Thanksgiving promotion gone bad when live but flightless turkeys were dropped from a helicopter.
McIntire remembers watching the show’s first episode — featuring disc jockeys Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid) — in the living room with his parents and older sister.
“And at the end of the 30-minute episode,” he said, “I got up and I proclaimed, `I’m going to be in radio. And if I ever have the opportunity, I’m going to run a station called WKRP.’”
McIntire said he got his first on-air job at 13 as a news anchor at WNQQ “Wink FM” in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
Fast forward to 2014, when his North Carolina-based nonprofit acquired the call sign from the Federal Communications Commission. Stations in Dallas, Georgia, and Alexandria, Tennessee, previously bore the letters.
McIntire laughs as he recalls his chat with a woman in the agency’s audio division.
He had two sets of call letters in mind. She told him he needed a third.
“Being the jokester that I am, I said, `Well, if you need three, and if it’s available, we’ll take WKRP,’” he said. “And 90 seconds later, she came back and she said, `Mr. McIntire. Congratulations. You’re the general manager of WKRP in Raleigh, North Carolina.’”
WKRP-LP — 101.9 on the FM dial — went live Nov. 30, 2015. The LP stands for “low power,” a class of station created to serve more local audiences that didn’t want mass-market content.
“Our format is what radio used to be 35 years ago in small-town America,” he said. “There is Greats of the 80s, Sounds of the 70s, 90s Rewind.”
LPFM is restricted to nonprofit organizations like his Oak City Media, and it’s definitely local.
“Your broadcast capacity is limited to 100 watts,” McIntire said. “So, your average range is between, depending on your terrain and circumstances, 4 and 12 miles (6 and 19 kilometers) in any direction. Enough to cover a small town.”
And, by necessity, it’s a low-budget affair.
The transmitter is in a corner of McIntire’s garage, between a recycling bin and the cleaning supplies. The broadcast antenna sits atop a 25-foot (7.62-meter) metal flagpole in the backyard. The studio — microphones and a mixing board hooked up to a computer — is in McIntire’s basement.
Like the WKRP of television, McIntire and his partners set out to be “irreverent.” One of their offerings is a two-hour show called “Weird Al and Friends,” focusing on the satirical works of Weird Al Yankovic.
They even had an annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But don’t call the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — they hand out gift certificates to a local grocery store.
“We don’t toss them out of helicopters,” he said with a laugh.
After 10 years on the air, the 56-year-old McIntire decided it was time to pass the reins.
“We’re in a position where the older members like me who started the station are turning the leadership over to younger members,” he said. “They’re not interested in radio.”
They put out a call for bids to use the call letters on FM and AM radio, as well as television and digital television.
They intend to use the proceeds for a new nonprofit venture called Independent Broadcast Consultants. He said IBC will be “geared specifically toward helping these new broadcasters get up and running, get the consulting that they need in order to be, hopefully, more successful than we have been.”
Oak City Media was all set to hand off the television-related suffixes — WKRPTV and WKRPDT — when another group defaulted on the agreement, McIntire said. But he said the Cincinnati deal is in the bag, he just can’t legally discuss it.
“It will be radio,” he said. “But that’s all I can tell you at this time.”
Whatever they do with the call sign, he hopes they will be true to the show that inspired it.
“It has a special place in the hearts of an awful lot of people,” he said. “And we have been very, very, very proud to have been a steward of that legacy.”
D.P. McIntire leans against a deck beneath the WKRP radio antenna in the backyard of his home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
D.P. McIntire points to the transmitter for WKRP radio in a corner of his garage in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
The WKRP radio antenna sits atop a 25-foot flagpole behind D.P. McIntire's home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
A photo of the cast members of the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" sits in a window at the home of D.P. McIntire in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
D.P. McIntire stands beneath a WKRP banner in the backyard of his home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
