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American top 40 during the 70's and 80's on local radio

DavidEduardo said:
There are so many legal issues, ranging from trademarks to music licensing that this won't happen for a very narrow interest group.

Remember, when "WKRP" first came out on commercial DVDs they substituted generic music for the actual hits used in the TV show. Horrible, but the result of legalities.

Those of us who wanted "real" WKRP episodes had to buy pirate recordings.
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Or watch/record the episodes on OTA diginets like Antenna TV or ME-TV or whoever is airing WKRP at the moment.
That appears to be the "loophole" for music license issues as far as WKRP goes.
Master tape rebroadcasts of WKRP over the air can be aired with the original music intact.
 
Robnoxious said:
Or watch/record the episodes on OTA diginets like Antenna TV or ME-TV or whoever is airing WKRP at the moment.
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Man, that was like two decades later!
Robnoxious said:
That appears to be the "loophole" for music license issues as far as WKRP goes.
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It was not in the 80's and 90's, however.
Robnoxious said:
Master tape rebroadcasts of WKRP over the air can be aired with the original music intact.
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Now, but not for several decades. I never got to see the originals as I was in Puerto Rico where the show did not run. Had to wait for the pirate tapes.
 
Robnoxious said:
God, I couldn't wait for the next new weekly installment of the Federated Group ads.

Unhinged, outrageous and sublime.

Purely outstanding marketing.
If it were a dud there wouldn't be tons of Youtube videos heralding it.

EVERYBODY LAUGH!
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Genius stuff.

Shadoe's still at it. He'll turn 78 in a little over six months, and he's turned his outrageousness to a theater-of-the-mind podcast:

www.mentalradio.net

Official website of Mental Radio, a podcast drama/comedy by Shadoe Stevens

Mental Radio is a cinematic adventure in four dimensions that is brimming with optomism.
www.mentalradio.net www.mentalradio.net
 
Robnoxious said:
Or watch/record the episodes on OTA diginets like Antenna TV or ME-TV or whoever is airing WKRP at the moment.
That appears to be the "loophole" for music license issues as far as WKRP goes.
Master tape rebroadcasts of WKRP over the air can be aired with the original music intact.
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The more recent Shoutcast DVD series has about 85% of the original music restored, and even when they had to use generic music, the choices were better
 
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