But they're a news station. Adding music would require them to break their normal format, plus pay music royalties.
It's one thing for a single station owner who has a passion for oldies to do this. It's another thing for a heritage news station to play music on Saturday night.
There's a different royalty structure for stations that use music only on an incidental basis, like bumpers for talk shows.
Its lower, but i dont remember what it is.. i had to pay music licensing on a talk station when the network was using real songs as bumper music and i did 4 hours once a week of a music show