 In the 1990s, reissues of the syndication of WKRP had nearly all  music played by the DJs changed. While the original run of the  series prided itself in both writing and acting by using current hit  songs, it was later deemed too expensive to keep the rights for the  originals in syndication (hundreds of thousands of dollars were at  stake). Instead, songs were removed and replaced with "generic"  studio music; even original "generic" music was replaced to avoid  any possibility of later lawsuits. Because the actors often spoke  over the music, voice impersonators were hired to emulate the actors  in those scenes. In some cases this meant revising lines so that  jokes about the song just played were removed, and changed to  often