Payola

Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under U.S. law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as sponsored airtime.^[1] The number of times the songs are played can influence the perceived popularity of a song, and payola may be used to influence these meters. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) treats payola as a violation of the Sponsorship Identification Rules, which requires any broadcast of paid material to include a disclosure.^[1]^[2]

For other uses, see Payola (disambiguation).

The term payola is a combination of "pay" and "-ola", the latter of which is a suffix of product names common in the early 20th century, such as Pianola, Victrola, Amberola, Crayola, Rock-Ola, Shinola, or brands such as the radio equipment manufacturer Motorola.^[3]

Frankie Crocker

Alan Freed

Tommy Smalls

Radio promotion

Telling Lies in America

Cash for comment scandal

Claque

Plugola

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"NY Times, How Payola Went Corporate"

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What's the story on the radio payola scandal of the 1950s?

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Payola in Radio and Television Broadcasting

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Payola: Another Brick in the Wall

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Pay for play

(1991). Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-73061-3.

Dannen, Frederic

The FCC's Payola Rules " Archived 2010-01-27 at the Wayback Machine" FCC's consumer publications.

Sponsorship Identification Rules

(1995). Rock & Roll: An Unruly History. New York: Harmony Books. 325 pages. ISBN 0-517-70050-6.