Very recently I had a chance to talk with Katie Dean, a reporter for
Wired News, about music clearance issues and other obstacles which sometimes keep our favorite TV series from arriving on DVD.
WKRP is one of my own personal faves, and I've wanted to see it come to DVD before Gord ever asked me to come help work with him here at TVShowsOnDVD.
As Katie and I talked, I lamented about how "
the indication from the studios is that we may never see (WKRP in Cincinnati
) because of all the music that would have to be licensed. ", and she quoted me on that, and on many more portions of our interview, in her new article today, "
Copyrights Keep TV Shows off DVD".
Katie took the matter to property-holder Fox Home Entertainment, though, and asked them to talk about the show's chances of hitting DVD. The answer was very straight and to-the-point about the music licensing issues, but also gave fans like me a glimmer of hope. Here's me quoting Katie this time, and Fox as well:
Fox Home Entertainment wouldn't provide an official release date for DVDs of the show.
"It's not totally dead in the water, but there is a huge obstacle of music licensing," said spokeswoman Shari Rosenblum. "It's being looked at and it's on the radar."
Again, it's not much more than a glimmer, but who knows where that ray of sunshine may end up? This is just a quick update give you that small bit of hope, but I can't stress enough not to get your hopes up *too* based on this. Let's just sit back, relax, enjoy some great DVDs in the meantime, and see what happens. Thanks for the helpful info and for the nice conversation, Katie...call me again anytime!
