Iowa Radio Stations Implicated in Payola AbusesFreePress
The FCC and New York Attorney General’s office are now investigating reported payola deals at large recording labels. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed the records of the nation's biggest radio station chains. In November, 2005, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) introduced legislation, the "Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act of 2005," expanding the definition of payola to eliminate the inside dealing and structural abuses in consolidated radio, which have locked local and independent artists off the airwaves for years.
A perfect storm is brewing against payola. With action in the courts, the FCC and Congress, Americans need to act now to turn the tides against big radio and protect our airwaves from corporate greed.
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