This show began as a happily absurd depiction of a radio station transitioning from the moribund music culture that had prevailed in '70s Cincinatti to, basically, Top 40 music. To the extent that it engaged in social commentary, it presented light-hearted digs at mid-western conservatism (as manifested by the manager, newsman, and salesman), stoner disk jockeys (as represented by "Dr Fever"), and the excesses of popular black culture (with a pimped-out DJ ridiculously named "Venus Flytrap").
But somewhere along the line, it adopted a labour theory of value, an exploitation theory of profit, and a dark-conspiracy-theory model of corporate behavior; it felt the need to present victims of '50s blacklisting simply as martyrs (as if those who survived into the 70s weren't generally and undeserving lionized); it even decided to champion the result of when "Lennon read a book on Marx" (if I may quote Don McLean). In other words, the show had moved quietly but decisively to the radical political left.
Now-a-days, the show faces an interesting legal and technological hurdle. Much of its dialogue is intermixed with snippets of music, which were not legally cleared for use in release to all forms of home video. The cost of securing those many clearances is prohibitive. So the show is unlikely to come out on DVD (or whatnot) until a cost-effective technology can extract the dialogue and replace the music with snippets that have been cleared.
But somewhere along the line, it adopted a labour theory of value, an exploitation theory of profit, and a dark-conspiracy-theory model of corporate behavior; it felt the need to present victims of '50s blacklisting simply as martyrs (as if those who survived into the 70s weren't generally and undeserving lionized); it even decided to champion the result of when "Lennon read a book on Marx" (if I may quote Don McLean). In other words, the show had moved quietly but decisively to the radical political left.
Now-a-days, the show faces an interesting legal and technological hurdle. Much of its dialogue is intermixed with snippets of music, which were not legally cleared for use in release to all forms of home video. The cost of securing those many clearances is prohibitive. So the show is unlikely to come out on DVD (or whatnot) until a cost-effective technology can extract the dialogue and replace the music with snippets that have been cleared.