[lit-ideas] Paid to be Popular
- From: EY <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:47 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
For those who wonder how J-Lo can be popular...
[Courtesy of Mediabistro's Daily News Feed]
Eliot Spitzer has given the Federal Communications Commission "an arsenal of
smoking guns" which indicates that radio stations were paid to broadcast songs
by J.Lo and others. NYP: Joel Klaiman, executive vice president for promotion at
SonyBMG's Epic Records label, took the fall for the scandal and was axed
yesterday.
NYDN: Emails and documents from Sony show it paid up to $1,000 to get a new song
played on a single radio station, gave contest prizes to deejays instead of
listeners,
and hired crews of callers to bombard stations' request lines.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-payola26jul26,0,5609660.story?coll=la-home-business
http://www.nypost.com/business/50724.htm
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/331514p-283284c.html
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