How To Use Payola In A Sentence
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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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Payola in radio is illegal when a song is played due to a payment but that fact is not disclosed.
Playola « BuzzMachine
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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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The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas.
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Average payola in dollars paid by record companies to US commercial radio stations to add a song to a playlist: 1,000
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I guess they did get involved when they outlawed "payola" - the voluntary payment to get songs played on the radio for free.
Techdirt
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UPDATE: But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe:
Archive 2004-07-01
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Anytime I see an article referring to Facebook as an equal to Myspace I immediately suspect payola is involved.
Who Needs Another Social Network? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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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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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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A Fox-news-reading FrontBurnervian passes along the shocking (yet not really) news that payola is still alive and well in the music business.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » JESSICA, THE “THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING” EDITION
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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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They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form.
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So, the first law allegedly broken is the law against taking "payola" or "plugola".
Armstrong Williams On The Wrong Side
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We wanted some payola, one of those fabled press trips where someone peels your grapes, plies you with fine wines then bores you slowly to death detailing the intricacies of cheese-making in the Loire Valley while you feign great interest.
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What they call payola in the disc jockey business they call lobbying in Washington.
Chicago Reader
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But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe.
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Also fascinated to learn that "payola" came from "victrola" which I never knew...
My PD Upped The Spins On Celine And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
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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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What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
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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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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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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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I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me.
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Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff.
Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives
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Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers.
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Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry.
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Any payola arrangements, if they were made, were left to Artie.
TOUCH
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After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here.
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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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Some familiar words, like punch line and payola, first appeared in Variety; a hundred other whammo coinages were popularized there.
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Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola.
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In a statement, Spitzer declared that, "When a record label engages in an elaborate scheme to purchase air time for its artists, it violates state and federal law and presents consumers with a skewed picture of the country's proclaimed 'best' and 'most popular' music" He added that payola smites struggling artists, who aren't being judged on their talents.
Hot Wax: Spitzer Says EMI Settles Payola Probe
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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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It costs too much just when we can't even afford everything the government has already bought and comitted to ... it raises the cost of health care ... and it got this far only because of hundreds of millions of dollars in payola to Democratic hold-outs.
Public option may be dropped from final health care bill
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Mitch McConnell for his whole political career was so unyieldingly pro-tobacco industry in my home state of Kentucky, getting payola from them while saying NO to any anti-tobacco legislation, that he has no credibility with me on any of his NO's, especially his NO on health care legislation.
McConnell tells GOP: Vote no on Wall Street bill
