Sony’s Payola Settlement

It will come as no surprise to anyone who has actually listened to their radio in the States that payola is alive and well. I mean, what else could explain the atrocious stuff coming out of the speakers? But, Sony has just been forced to pay a settlement of $10m for offering radio stations incentives to play such “brilliant” artists as Celine Dion, Duran Duran and Good Charlotte. The wonderful BoingBoing have put up a link to a document containing Sony’s memos on the subject. Or, you can just go straight to the 59-page .pdf file of the Sony payola memos themselves.

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