Payola Investigation Includes "Hundreds Of Radio Stations"
ABC News reports that the FCC is investigating hundreds of radio in the latest pay-for-play payola investigation by initiated by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein told ABC News that "the FCC staff is working with voluminous evidence right now. It's a complicated and wide-ranging investigation."
Adelstein added, "This is potentially the most wide spread and flagrant violation of FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. We've never seen evidence of such a systematic betrayal of the responsibility of broadcasters."
