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There are more shows, too, including two 3 hour shows with Chris on KBHR Cicely (i.e. Northern Exposure):

https://www.awphooey.com/kbhr

https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit/autumn

Full list at https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit

(I only know this from your post, so thank you. Just mentioning in case KBHR piques someone's interest more than WKRP. I loved both TV shows.)

This is awesome! Thanks it made my day!

Huh.

I heard that they didn't license the original music for DVD, etc when the show ran, only for reruns, so that the DVDs and so on only have snippets of replacement music.

I wonder, is this replacement music, or the original tracks?

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

I was thinking of this episode the other day and wondering how it could have stuck with all of us independently after all these years given that there was no social media / meme sharing back then.

Oh thank you, I came here to make that joke. Great show.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable.

Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watching it. In contrast, the soundtrack to The Hobbit sounds completely generic and boring, and the result is unwatchable.

Another example is Star Wars. The first two movies had amazingly good soundtracks. The later sequels had boring music, and whaddya know, the sequels were boring.

The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.

Northern Exposure had similar problems but, as I understand it, at least some was resolved for the (somewhat relatively) recent DVD box set release.

It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the time and it's not like back catalog TV shows are usually these big money-makers that warrant a lot of time and cost to get in order.

There's a DVD box set that has almost all of the original music!

That's so stupid when these rights disputes come up! Think of how many people will stream or buy the songs legally after (re) discovering them on an old show.

And think of how few people will watch the show solely because it features copyright music.

It should be the other way around, i.e. Stranger Things should send the record company a bill for the resurgence of "Running up that hill".

I was always going to name my daughter Bailey after Bailey Quarters. But I never had a daughter, and my wife wouldn't let me name our son that. So the dog got the name.

We had a shared office at one point with three of us with desks. One guy was absolutely ANAL about nobody touching his stuff or approaching him unannounced.

So we taped off the area around his desk and started calling him Les. He was like 22 and had no idea what that was about, but he liked the nickname. It's decades later and he still goes by Les. Love it.

It wasn't JUST the music, but the music was an incredible part of the show which has made the re-issues that replaced the music with other selections (because of the licensing) just not hit right.

Funny, I didn't watch this show much but was well aware of it as a kid, maybe it went over my head. And like many things introduced as a kid, I never thought to consider what KRP was supposed to mean. But I did just now, cheers.

Meta: I'm still learning new things about the 70s and 80s.

Other than game of thrones, I can't hear any relatively new show themes in my head. But shows like newhart, wkrp, mash and the like I still know.

The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?

Thanks for the chuckle. But a lot of us are hanging on for dear life, and still living independently.

There was also two seasons of 'the new wkrp' from ten years after the old one. I don't follow the show (either version), so I don't know if the new seasons are any good; or the old ones really, but there'a a following, obviously.

I watched it. I am not dead, in a nursing home, nor retired.

Um. I grew up watching WKRP. I’m in my mid-50s.

One of the actors of the show recorded promos for the station, so guess not.

The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.