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Payola - bribes paid to DJ’s to play certain songs - is as old as radio. Recently, the FCC tried to address the problem by fining the four biggest radio station groups. Industry watcher Paul Porter says the more payola changes, the more it stays the same.
I feel that radio stations take money under the table from big corporations and record labels because in the big markets, for urban music it seems what ever the trend is they play rather then good music. they play songs the degrade, and harm the community. when you have uplifting songs there no were to be found.
Fining big corporations for wrong doing is not enough! It was mentioned that the twelve and a half million is just a small amount of what these corporations are making, so how about adding jail time for CEO's. If they were in charge when these bribes took place, then the CEO and every other person involved should spend time in jail equal to the maximum for bribery charges for anyone else. They are supposedly smart people and smart people do not have to steal or cheat to get ahead, but they sure can give big business a bad name.
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