The radio station call letters were originally WXQL but had to be changed at the last minute to QXQL as the rights to use WXQL could not be obtained from the actual station using those letters. No US radio station has call letters beginning with Q.
The radio station is 105.1; named after film production class 105 at the Vancouver Film School.
The radio station is a miniature shot against blue screen. This was the first live-action film in Vancouver Film School's history to use miniatures.
Grover's Mill is a real town in New Jersey. For his 1938 radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds", Orson Welles chose Grover's Mill as the site for the Martian landing.
Carl Phillips is named for a reporter character in the 1938 radio version of "The War of the Worlds". In the radio play, Phillips is one of the first casualties of the invasion, killed live on the air by the Martian heat ray.