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The report's authors have some suggestions for minimizing the impact of payola.
From the ideas.time.com
Microsoft's critics are grumbling that politics and payola may have played a role.
From the time.com
The payola for the plugola usually goes to accommodating producers or property men.
From the time.com
Both parties are guilty, they need payola to buy their 30 second tv campaign smeers.
From the latimes.com
It's time for the WMF to rule that nothing gets run without payola, period.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I merged the old bribery into payola and put the resulting article here.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This all brings up the bigger question of the legitimacy of payola in the blogging world.
From the techcrunch.com
Payola is now illegal, but the practice almost certainly continues.
From the techcrunch.com
Labour Party politics has always been associated with graft, payola, corruption, cronyism etc.
From the nbr.co.nz
- A bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
- Payola, in the American music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. ...
- Payola are a six-piece folk/rock/soul band from Auckland, New Zealand.
- The Payolas (or Payola$) were part of Vancouver's new wave of bands and active in the Canadian music scene for a decade from the late 1970s, recording several albums and singles that were Canadian chart hits. They disbanded in 1988, but reformed again from 2003 to 2008, issuing a new EP in 2007.
- A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record)
- Undercover illegal payment to a disc jockey or radio station programmer for playing or plugging a record.
- Bribery or under-the-table payments; "The proliferation of payola rocked the music industry in the 1950s."
- The Payola Scandal came to a head in the 1960s when DJ Alan Freed, the man who coined the term, Rock and Roll and eight other DJs were accused of taking money in exchange for record airplay. ...
- Illegal practice, common throughout the music industry, of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
