What was so significant about the payola scandal in radio in the 50s/60s? Radio stations or DJs were getting kickbacks for playing certain songs to help make them popular? Now some record label provides some incentives to execs at iheartmedia or however this works to get play for their next version of Taylor Swift. Can someone explain.
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The payola laws forbid the employees and management of radio stations from accepting money for air time. So what happens now, is the labels buy a marketing package from Clear Channel (who owns all the stations). That package includes ads, contests, dj chatter, etc. And mysteriously, their artist also gets played more. No one at the station gets paid to play, but it happens all the same while avoiding violating the actual law.
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