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| | Payola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Currently a different form of payola is used by the record industry through the loophole of being able to pay a third party or independent record promoters ("indies"; not to be confused with independent record labels), who will then go and "promote" those songs to radio stations. |  | | The practice was criticized in the chorus of the Dead Kennedys song "Pull My Strings," a parody of the song "My Sharona" sung to a crowd of music industry leaders during a music award ceremony. |  | | In the music industry, the illegal practice of record companies paying money for the broadcast of records on music radio is called payola, if the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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| | PAYOLA : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
 | | When top bananas from Al Jolson to Elvis Presley sang a song in exchange for a piece of it, they were demanding payola (or in Presley's case, it was his handler, Tom Parker). |  | | Payola was only a symptom of the disease, wrote Lane, which was 'the involvement of the entire broadcasting industry, networks and local stations, in a deliberate and successful distortion of music programming for their own financial gain'. |  | | Payola skyrocketed because radio had become a showcase for record companies. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/p/P41.HTM
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| | Canconrox - Payolas |
 | | Payolas' early sound could best be described as punk meets Cyndi Lauper, a culmination of Hyde's British influences and the trendy pop that was all the rave in Vancouver at the time. |  | | The tracks were remixed and released as INTRODUCING PAYOLAS in 1980. |  | | The attention received convinced the label to embrace the band as a potential leader in the new wave - punk crossover sound that was becoming mainstream. |
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http://www.canadianbands.com/Payolas.html
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| | purevolume™ Payola |
 | | Payola are an alternative rock band based in Billingham in the North East of England. |  | | Incorporating influences such as Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, The Pixies, Gang Of Four, QOTSA and the Stone Roses into one original sound, Payola have a huge range in sound, going from extreme no-wave punk to indie floor fillers from song to song, but the important thing is everything fits in. |  | | All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 Payola. |
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http://www.purevolume.com/payola
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| | Payola |
 | | "Payola" is a contraction of the words "pay" and"Victrola" (LP record player), and entered the English language via the record business. |  | | Clark admitted a $125 investment in Jamie Records returned a profit of $11,900 and of the 163 songs he had rights to143 were given to him. |  | | By the mid- fifties the independent record companies had broken the majors stranglehold on airplay and BMI licensed songs dominated the charts. |
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http://www.history-of-rock.com/payola.htm
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| | CampusProgress.org Crib Sheet: Payola |
 | | Payola involves the flow of money and other perks from music labels to radio stations, and, through resulting record sales, back to the labels themselves. |  | | By law, radio disc jockeys must fully disclose to their listeners whether airplay of a chosen song was paid for by promoters. |  | | For decades, radio payola has been an unpleasant fact of American music. |
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http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/585/crib-sheet-payola?type=printer
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| | C7 payola |
 | | "Payola" cooks in its re-recorded mode and "Silverwater" is quirky, angular pop-rock. |  | | This particular vinyl version was released by Full Toss Records and features a bonus 7" that combine's some album tracks with the unreleased track, 'Big Hits on the Underground' - the band's take on the classic Saint's ditty. |  | | Released in 2000, this album of amped-up, power pop made the end of year 'best of lists' for quite a number of zines and publications. |
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http://www.reverberation.com.au/info-TOSS012.htm
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| | The Payola$ |
 | | Victoria, British Columbia's Payolas started life as a punk band after expatriate Brit Paul Hyde introduced fellow guitarist Robert Rock to the new musical genre eminating from the UK. |  | | Though the album delivered the goods and produced several radio hit singles, the band was at its wits end. |  | | A & M turned around and released the four sides, remixed, as a 4 song 12" EP simply titled 'The Payola$' in 1980. |
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http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesP/payolas.html
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| | Majikthise : Payola |
 | | Payola is an explicit quid pro quo in which a record agent compensates a DJ for playing a specific song. |  | | Payola was considered scandalous in the 1950s because consumers wanted the DJ's taste and expertise. |  | | If the record companies are doing payola, let it come out of their money, not the band's. |
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http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2005/07/payola_.html
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| | Payola$ |
 | | Sales of both LPs topped 100,000, and the Payola$ received the 1982 Juno awards for single ('Eyes of a Stranger'), composer (Hyde and Rock), recording engineer (Rock) and most promising group of the year. |  | | The band toured in US clubs after the release of its second LP and performed widely in Canada both as an opening act (for Split Enz, Supertramp, etc) and concert headliner. |  | | Beginning in the punk/new wave style, the Payola$ released the independent single 'China Boys' in 1979 and a debut album, In a Place Like This (AandM SP-9052), in 1981. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002745
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| | Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society |
 | | This is implicit in the popular claim that payola is the cause of the rise of “bad” music, or is only necessary for such music. |  | | (2) payola is bad because it deceives the listening audience,who believes that music is chosen based on merit rather than payola (the “deception objection”). |  | | This was the claim with respect to rock n roll in the 1950s, and more recently, rap music (where payola is quite popular) and the musical stylings of J-Lo. |
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http://www.theconglomerate.org/2005/08/some_economics_.html
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| | Radio payola probe touches local broadcasters |
 | | Payola, or the practice of accepting money to give specific records more airplay, is one of the more shameful chapters in music radio history. |  | | Ultimately, tightening the definitions of payola and enforcing them may benefit both music makers and music consumers. |  | | Radio is already under pressure to compete with other forms of music -- from satellite radio, with its diverse formats and commercial music, and Internet radio, which offers a smorgasbord of music for every taste. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05208/544238.stm
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| | Payola |
 | | The recording industry, and artists complained to anyone who would listen that this was unfair, and in 1960 the practice of requiring a payment before a record would be played was outlawed. |  | | We can only hope a new music industry of, by, and for people who love music can rise from the ashes when they are gone. |  | | In some cases, the recording labels such as EMI messed up their own corrupt system of payola using their "copy protected" discs. |
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http://www.dontbuycds.org/payola.htm
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| | The New Yorker: Online Only: Content |
 | | And I think that disk jockeys and record-store owners and bookstore owners are important, too, since a lot of their decisions are not shaped by payola but reflect their individual judgments about what books and records people will like. |  | | If a record company were to buy airtime so it could play a new song, that’s undoubtedly an advertisement, even if we call it payola. |  | | There, the stranglehold of the major labels on popular music really was broken. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/content?040712on_onlineonly01
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the story on the radio payola scandal of the 1950s? |
 | | At the height of the scandal Billboard magazine claimed that payola in various forms had been common during the big band era of the 1930s and 40s and in the vaudeville business in the 1920s. |  | | Disc jockeys took thousands of dollars in payola in exchange for airtime. |  | | Fearing the taint of scandal, radio stations across the country held a housecleaning of sorts and fired many disc jockeys. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpayola.html
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| | Radio payola, it just never went away MetaFilter |
 | | Payola in radio isn't "back", it's just back in the news. |  | | Read how more than ever radio airplay is not determined by you, creativity, inspiration, nor musical genius, but by the big green. |  | | I listen to college radio stations because in general they allow the DJs more free reign to spin what they like-- though I know it's not complete freedom. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/24001
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| | How Payola Went Corporate - New York Times |
 | | THE term payola - a contraction of pay and Victrola, a record player - entered the national lexicon more than 45 years ago, when a group of disc jockeys, including Alan Freed, were charged with taking bribes to play certain records. |  | | A racial undercurrent coursed through the controversy, as the music in question often was rhythm and blues, considered to be black music. |  | | Disc jockeys increasingly lost their power to choose the records they played. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/weekinreview/31manly.html?ex=1280462400&en=0adc5da18441bd70&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | Marginal Revolution: Why is Payola Illegal? |
 | | Implicitly they think that if it was legal the big record companies would use their wealth to promote music that listeners would prefer less to what they would have heard without advertising. |  | | Payola, therefore, ought to increase the amount of new music heard - it's payola/advertising that allows a new entrant to access listeners/consumers and beat out the big established artists/firms. |  | | Most people's initial reaction is to say that payola prevents the "true" distribution of musical preferences from reaching the airwaves. |
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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/06/payola.html
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| | Payola$ Discography and Biography at Mr Bill's I.R.S. Records Corner |
 | | A detailed Canadian webpage devoted to Payola$ (except for a blaring error in the order in which the LPs were released)... |  | | After Payola$ started winning Junos and other Canadian music awards, the US A&M exercised an option they held with I.R.S. With their second full-length LP in 1982, No Stranger To Danger, US Payola$ releases were on A&M but carried the I.R.S. imprint as well (A&M did likewise with Oingo Boingo). |  | | Canada's Payola$ were one of the earliest punk acts to come out of Canada. |
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http://www.irscorner.com/pq/payola.html
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| | We Want the Airwaves, Baby! |
 | | Federal law says that radio stations may not accept money for playing a song unless the fact that such a transaction has taken place is clearly announced to the listening audience. |  | | Even though radio is one of the major means of selling albums in this country, we still operate under the premise that music is supposed to be artistic expression that succeeds or fails on its own merits, and not simply a commercial product. |  | | According to the story, the radio station played songs produced by the record companies in return. |
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http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/we_want_the_airwaves_1.htm
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| | Payola, only different |
 | | Every now and then a DJ may chose to play a song he likes that isn't covered by any payola, and for the legions of amateurs with audiences rarely exceeding 200 simultaneous listeners, that could be pocket change. |  | | With payola comes record-company controlled playlists, and with playlists comes blandness, just like modern commercial FM radio. |  | | At 0.07 cents per listener per song, you can buy exposure to 7142 listeners for a five-spot—a lot less than the $1,000 per-station it can cost in the FM business. |
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http://www.disenchanted.com/humanity/moe-loogham.html
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| | Willamette Week - Radio Airplay Payola KUFO Pay-for-Play April 15, 1998 |
 | | "Payola is defined as getting compensation in the back room for putting a record on and not telling your boss," Numme explains. |  | | It also raised a legitimate question of whether a radio station's "content," its music, is sacred, or whether it should be auctioned off to the highest bidder. |  | | Terry Currier, a frizzy-haired blues and rock aficionado who owns Music Millennium, says of pay-for-play, "It's above-the-ground payola. |
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| | Payola-The Dirty Industry Practice-That's Ruining Hip Hop - www.ezboard.com |
 | | I was offered free gear and records from roc-a-fella records a while back when I was on college radio so payola definately does not stop at commercial radio. |  | | Payola's the lapdance that everyone wants at work or in the |  | | What you read above is what longtime radio programmer and industry insider Paul Porter who used to work for Emmis and has programmed for BET and radio One has to say about the dirty illegal practice we call payola that goes on in the industry. |
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http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm57.showMessage?topicID=348.topic
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| | Slashdot Payola: Another Brick in the Wall |
 | | ("Payola" is the first of three Slashdot features on music distribution. |  | | BBC Radio 2 has recently become the most listened to station in the UK, the main reason being that it plays a massive mix of old and new music. |  | | We'll get into fine ethical distinctions later, but basically a radio station that secretly takes money to spin a song is guilty of payola. |
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http://slashdot.org/features/01/06/05/1034234.shtml
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| | Punknews.org Sony BMG settles in Payola scandal |
 | | My first experience of Payola to some degree was as a wet behind the ears music store clerk who had to create a space on my store's top 40 wall for an album that wasn't even released yet. |  | | Its no secret that the radio is shit and has always been shit so I dont know why you would even bother to listen to it. |  | | But I'm also just annoyed by the fact that I live about 20 miles of the University Of Richmond and can only listen to their radio station on one side of my house. |
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http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=13278
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| | Salon.com Arts & Entertainment Payola City |
 | | As a recent series of articles in Salon has made clear, payola is alive and well in the music business. |  | | But urban radio remains a world apart, the Wild Wild West of the music industry. |  | | Why would the promoter want to discuss the song on a cellphone? |
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http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/07/24/urban_radio
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| | Cracks in Omerta. Copyfight: the politics of IP |
 | | Last year I blogged somewhat on the topic of modern-day radio payola and how it is distorting the listening landscape. |  | | Now it appears that the code of silence around this practice may break, as two "independent music promoters" have filed suit against Universal Music Group alleging that the latter forced them to submit false invoices. |  | | So the problem, guys, is not that you were part of the payola racket, but that you got fired and blacklisted for refusing to pad your payola records? |
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http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2005/04/26/cracks_in_omerta.php
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| | Variety.com - Slanguage Dictionary Results |
 | | payola -- bribery or under-the-table payments; "The proliferation of payola rocked the music industry in the 1950s." |
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http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage_result&slang=payola&page=Slanguage&display=payola
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| | What's Wrong With Payola? - The pointlessness of Eliot Spitzer's crusade against the music industry. By Daniel Gross |
 | | On Monday, he announced a breakthrough in his latest crusade: a campaign to stamp out "payola"—the illegal practice of record companies paying radio stations and disc jockeys to play particular songs. |  | | The activities, which are detailed in apparently incriminating correspondence posted by Spitzer's office, are reminiscent of the 1950s-era payola scandals, in which popular DJs like Alan Freed were caught taking cash in exchange for playing songs. |  | | The settlement—likely the first of many for the already beleaguered music industry—was hailed by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and by Don Henley of the Recording Artists' Coalition (and of the Eagles). |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2123483
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| | Online NewsHour: Music Industry Giant Sony BMG Music Will Pay $10 Million for Radio Play Bribes -- July 26, 2005 |
 | | It was not in the public interest for things to be done that the public didn't know about, that listeners didn't hear. |  | | RAY SUAREZ: Well, music industry giant Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay a $10 million fine in a settlement over allegations of illegal payola, or pay-for-play transactions between its representatives and radio station programmers. |  | | RAY SUAREZ: Now, record labels have for a long time given away free things -- |
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| | January 25 - Free Encyclopedia |
 | | 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for paying particular records. |
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| | mtv.com - News - Sony BMG Apologizes For Payola Involving J. Lo, Avril, Good Charlotte, Others |
 | | The payola took the form of outright bribes as well as fictitious contest giveaways for listeners, which actually went to station employees. |  | | "Despite federal and state laws prohibiting unacknowledged payment by record labels to radio stations for airing of music, such direct and indirect forms of what has been described generically as 'payola' for spins has continued to be an unfortunately prevalent aspect of radio promotion," the label group said in a statement. |  | | The payola has got to stop — that's the word from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who on Monday announced a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which has agreed to cease its "pay for play" policy. |
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1506321/20050725/index.jhtml?headlines=true
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| | Payola on the Information Highway |
 | | The new promotional avenue has no direct relation to MP3.com's music charts, which are created based on the number of downloads, listens, CD sales and other measurements of consumer popularity. |  | | Once a term pretty much applied to secret payments by record companies to radio DJs that encouraged them to play certain songs with extra frequency, payola has become a standard way of doing business for some companies on the Internet. |  | | Unlike payola for playing records, this new payola is probably quite legal. |
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| | Oligopoly Watch |
 | | Not by advertisers, but by record companies, who pay for the privilege of having Clear Channel or Viacom play their songs. |  | | Though a set of intermediaries called independent record promoters or "indies" They give money to radio chains and stations ostensibly to defray the cost of online giveaways of trips, concert tickets, and other stuff. |  | | This is what used to be called payola, and now goes under the politer name of "promotional payments." Like slotting fees in retail stores, it's a quasi-legal practice that makes the radio oligopolies rich and that guarantees that only the Big Five record companies can play. |
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http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2003/09/06.html
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| | The Big Picture: Payola 2: Why it matters |
 | | The select handful of illegally hyped tunes eventually catch on from sheer repetition and sell well, but the overall result has been a tidal wave of mediocrity that causes record sales to drop year after year. |  | | The NY Post observes: Music execs sacrifice the great for the glitz; They go even further than I do, blaming Payola for all lousy music on the Radio: |  | | What is the significance of the Payola settlement? |
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/payola_2.html
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| | The Deadbolt - Feature - Sony: Payola |
 | | Now that Sony has settled their illegal practices to the tune of ten million in fines, The Deadbolt takes a look at where this leaves radio and the music industry over-all. |  | | Have you ever wondered why you hear the same eight songs on the radio replayed over and over again each day? |  | | The practice was called "payola," a combination of "pay" and "Victrola," the old wind-up record player. |
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| | Technorati Tag: payola |
 | | Destroy Clear Channel February 21st, 2006 Radio Stations Tapped in New Payola Investigation In a story as old as the music industry itself, new payola... |  | | Paying to Make It to the Top of the Charts February 17th, 2006 By BRIAN ROSS and VIC WALTER Feb. 16, 2006 — The ride to the top of the charts was an... |  | | Paying to Make It to the Top of the Charts |
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| | CorpWatch : US: FCC to review payola settlement |
 | | Last month, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment relating to the major music company's radio promotion practices. |  | | "In addition, if the bureau is presented with evidence of payola rule violations outside of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment settlement, it is to thoroughly investigate those complaints as well." |  | | Adelstein has been the most vocal commissioner on the payola issue. |
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12539
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| | Payola Productions - Home |
 | | Monthly mixes by the Payola DJs and Payola associated DJs |  | | Heads up music loving party people, It's that time of year once again. |  | | Please visit the Podcast Archive for mixes previously featured on the Payola Podcast. |
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http://www.payolaproductions.com
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| | Neil Young Lyrics - Payola Blues - Lyrics Crawler |
 | | Neil Young Lyrics - Payola Blues - Lyrics Crawler |  | | I never hear my record on the radio. |  | | All lyrics are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users. |
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| | Payola |
 | | Payola Music Tasks - Agency for Artist-Booking and Music-Promotion. |  | | Please contact us while we prepare our future services. |
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| | MPR: Midmorning: Archive for 8/15/2005 - 8/19/2005 |
 | | He's the author of So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales From a Drummer's Life. |  | | The drummer of the former Minneapolis band Semisonic knows. |  | | He'll talk about that and give his perspective on payola. |
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http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/programs/midmorning/listings/mm20050815.shtml
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| | Payola at opensource encyclopedia |
 | | In the music industry, record companies have paid money for the broadcasting of their records on music radio. |  | | Payola is the practice of buying off professionals in order to circumvent ethics in a variety of professions. |  | | The name of the company Clear Channel Communications has appeared in a number of reports citing concerns about industry practices. |
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| | Salon Feature Propaganda for dollars |
 | | Payola entered public consciousness during the 1950s, when rock 'n' roll impresarios were convicted of bribery for paying DJs and radio stations to play specific records. |  | | When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law? |  | | The payola laws that followed require broadcasters to reveal any financial considerations, direct or indirect, that yield on-air exposure. |
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http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/14/payola/print.html
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| | The Village Voice: Riff Raff |
 | | A Sony BMG executive considered a plan to promote the song "A.D.I.D.A.S." by Killer Mike by sending radio disc jockeys one Adidas sneaker, with the promise of the second one when they had played the song 10 times. |  | | This morning details emerged of Sony BMG's elaborate radio payola scandal, the media conglo bribing station jocks with roundabout promotional "giveaways" in exchange for increased song appearances in playlists. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/riffraff/archives/2005/07/riff_raff_uncov.php
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| | Preemptive Karma: Snowing payola |
 | | This hack at the Times is telling us that enforcing laws against music radio payola is bad. |  | | Because payola has always been around and like gravity, it can't be defeated. |  | | Posted by Carla at July 29, 2005 08:04 AM Comments |
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http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2005/07/snowing_payola.html
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| | Smart Mobs: Payola |
 | | There is a limited local spectrum of stations to choose from on traditional broadcast radio, and this makes more likely that listeners will settle on certain stations when listening to the radio. |  | | But, when someone can walk around a whole city and pull up and listen to thousands of digital broadcasts from all over the world into a device as cheap and popular as an iPod-like device, then the nature of what we as a culture consider to be "radio" will probably change quite a bit. |  | | It seems to me that someday soon, as more and more cities are set up with city-wide free wireless broadband, someone is going to figure out a way to deliver music digitally with the same (relative) ease as broadcast radio does now. |
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http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/08/04/payola.html
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| | Amazon.com: Hit Men : Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (Vintage): Books: Fredric Dannen |
 | | English rock group Pink Floyd was one of the hottest bands in 1980, with an LP shooting up the charts and a concert tour that sold out within hours. |  | | SIPs: indie promotion, payola case, indie promo men, new payola, great record man (more) |  | | indie promotion, payola case, indie promo men, new payola, great record man, indie promoters, pop roster, independent promotion, bar mitzvah reception, pop promotion, promo man, label bosses, independent promoters, promotion man, label president, promotion men, promotion executive, record business |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679730613?v=glance
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| | The New York Times > Business > Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny |
 | | It won convictions against two top executives at Fonovisa, the biggest independent record label in the Spanish-language market, and a top radio executive. |  | | Spitzer and representatives for the record companies declined to comment. |  | | The major record labels have paid middlemen for decades, though the practice has long been derided as a way to skirt a federal statute - known as the payola law - outlawing bribes to radio broadcasters. |
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 | | FMC Statement on Release of Feingold's Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act of 2005 |  | | FMC Urges FCC to Investigate Allegations of Radio Payola |
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http://www.futureofmusic.org/news/PRradiostudy.cfm
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