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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: FrankZappa on July 26, 2005, 09:10:11 am
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heard this on the radio (AM!) this morning, and was confused..
i mean, isn\'t this the mainstream **** that ClearChannel pushes anyways? i can see paying off stations to play things that normally wouldn\'t be played, but i dunno... i\'m confused...
Over-saturation of already played out material I presume. Instead of playing out Beyonce songs at a rate of 2 per hour on particular stations, they were probably playing them 3 times.
We should start a .info bribe fund for our boys.
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This stuff has been going on forever.
Sad.
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yea, CNN mentioned Destinys Child, Good Charlotte, etc.
isn\'t moe. on sony? based on the amound of airplay they get, it\'s probably safe to say they were not involved. :P
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Sony BMG, whose labels include hundreds of artists from Tony Bennett to Beyonce Knowles and the Dixie Chicks, said some of its employees had engaged in "wrong and improper" practices.
heard this on the radio (AM!) this morning, and was confused..
i mean, isn\'t this the mainstream **** that ClearChannel pushes anyways? i can see paying off stations to play things that normally wouldn\'t be played, but i dunno... i\'m confused...
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Payola (noun): undercover or indirect payment (as to a disc jockey) for a commercial favor (as for promoting a paticular album).
aka, here\'s some sneakers, a free vacation, a flat screen tv, etc... now only play our bands so that they go to the top of the charts.
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source (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0507260115jul26,1,7604176.story?coll=chi-business-hed)
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT: Spitzer\'s `pay-for-play\' probe yields $10 million settlement
Associated Press
Published July 26, 2005
NEW YORK -- Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Monday agreed to pay $10 million and stop bribing radio stations to feature its artists in what a state official called a more sophisticated generation of the payola scandals of decades ago.
The agreement springs from an investigation by New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer, who called the practice "pervasive" in the industry and suggested other music industry giants could face similar penalties.
Pay-for-play "is driving the industry, and it is wrong," Spitzer said.
Sony BMG, whose labels include hundreds of artists from Tony Bennett to Beyonce Knowles and the Dixie Chicks, said some of its employees had engaged in "wrong and improper" practices.
The company said it looked forward to "defining a new, higher standard in radio promotion" but did not say whether it had fired or disciplined any of those employees. A spokeswoman did not return a call seeking further comment.
A 1960 federal law and related state laws bar record companies from offering undisclosed financial incentives in exchange for airplay. Asked why he did not bring criminal charges in the case, Spitzer noted those laws governing pay-for-play are more specific and difficult to violate than the civil laws.