It was a really popular show, and for a while was doing great in syndication, but then it disappeared.
I always wondered, and now I know why. When I work on weekends I sometimes just let youtube run and play videos, and right now I'm watching a whole series from FoundationInterviews, which interviews people involved in making lots of the big name TV shows. The behind the scenes stuff interests me.
Anyway, I just got to interviews with the producer for WKRP. Apparently the reason it isn't syndicated now is the music they played in the episodes as a radio station. They used real snippets from the real bands, and had to pay for the rights. He said at some point when the rights contracts ran out they had to re-negotiate the rights to keep selling the show. Instead of wanting something like $3,000 for a 17 sec segment of a song now they want $103,000, and they just can't pay it and make money.
Just an aside, but I thought it was interesting. Would have never thought of that detail being the reason they can't sell the show.
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