Posted in music on February 10, 2006
"Hundreds of radio stations are under intense scrutiny by the FCC for their alleged involvement in payola scams in an investigation that commissioner Jonathan Adelstein calls 'potentially the most widespread and flagrant violation of FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting." [Billboard]
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Spitzer does it again. I hope all these stations lose their licenses and stop pumping the same crap over the supposedly public airwaves. For too long big radio has artificially, immorally AND illegally controlled what's "popular."
Posted by Mike Lewis | February 10, 2006 12:17 PM