| Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers. |
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| Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola. |
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| But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe. |
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| Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold. |
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| But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling. |
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| There were a lot of good records in those days, but no one paid enough payola to get them played at the time. |
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| Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply. |
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| The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry. |
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| In radio payola, you're trying to seed a large market and hope that something will then take off through the free choice of the consumers. |
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| Is payola so widespread and successful in the radio industry that it must then also be the lubricant that greases our health machine? |
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| The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas. |
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| Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry. |
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| Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records. |
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| They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form. |
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| I suppose that the very fact that payola is illegal acknowledges the power of the media, even if, in this case, it is a simple matter of taste-making for financial gain. |
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| After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here. |
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| Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola. |
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| Both radio and television management must be watchful for instances of staff payola and plugola. |
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| And that raises a worrying question: what happens when their knees give out? Many of the acts that now draw huge crowds emerged in an era of multi-album record contracts, lavish marketing and radio payola. |
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| Who lesale payola and the recruitment of the press organizations for purposes of propaganda disrupted the learning process and destroyed ethical values and the starting framework of professionalism. |
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| These issues will be explored in no fewer than six inquiries that have been ordered into the payola scandal, including one by the federal parliament in Canberra. |
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