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Warner settles payola probe.(Bottom line)
Warner Music US has reached a settlement agreement with attorney general Eliot Spitzer over his payola probe and has agreed to abandon the practice of providing ...
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- WMG settles payola probe.(Warner Music Group)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Goldsmith, Jill November 23, 2005 700+ words
Warner Music Group has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a payola probe by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer--making Warner the second major music label to settle. Sony BMG agreed last summer...
- FCC wants more info from Clear Channel, others in payola probe.
- Newspaper article from: San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) April 21, 2006 700+ words
...the FCC. This isn't a whole lot of money to a big company like Clear Channel." The last time the FCC took action on a payola probe was in 2000, when it fined a pair of Clear Channel stations $4,000 each for failing to disclose they had received payments...
- Radio payola probe elicits only silence.(Eliot L. Spitzer)
- Magazine article from: PR Week (US) August 8, 2005 700+ words
NEW YORK: As state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continues his investigation into music industry payola, radio conglomerates are focusing communications efforts internally - largely ignoring the public realm. Sony BMG was the first company to settle in a statewide investigation late last month
- Radio payola probe touches local broadcasters.
- Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) July 27, 2005 700+ words
Jul. 27--In late 2002, an official at Sony music was trying to boost interest in the song "A.D.I.D.A.S." by Killer Mike, and considered sending disc jockeys at WAMO-FM one Adidas shoe to promote the song. Jocks at the Pittsburgh station, and others throughout the Northeast, could get the second
- Universal settles payola probe.(Universal Music Group Recordings Inc)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal May 15, 2006 700+ words
Universal Music Group Recordings Inc. has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a payola case that claimed the company provided vacations, electronics and other bribes to increase radio play for their artists, according to a statement from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The bribes and gifts
- FCC begins payola probe.(BUSINESS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 21, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Dan Caterinicchia, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Federal Communications Commission this week formalized its investigation into the pay-for-play practices reportedly used by four of the nation's largest radio stations. "I am pleased that we have launched this formal phase of the payola
- FCC begins payola probe.
- Newspaper article from: Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) April 21, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Dan Caterinicchia Apr. 21--The Federal Communications Commission this week formalized its investigation into the pay-for-play practices reportedly used by four of the nation's largest radio stations. "I am pleased that we have launched this formal phase of the payola investigation,"
- FCC commish pushes pundit payola probe.(Jonathan S. Adelstein)(Armstrong...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Triplett, William January 14, 2005 700+ words
WASHINGTON -- An FCC commissioner vowed to press the agency to investigate allegations that conservative pundit Armstrong Williams may have violated federal laws against payola. Speaking to reporters after the commission's open monthly meeting on Thursday, Democrat Jonathan S. Adelstein, one of the