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Jul
Sony BMG Music Entertainment admitted that its employees lavished cash, trips and other bribes on radio stations and their employees to get its music on the air in a settlement that is part of a wider investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer into payola in the music industry.
At a news conference Monday, Spitzer said payola was “pervasive” in the industry and, while it had assumed more sophisticated forms lately, does not much differ from practices unearthed in scandals that have dogged the industry since the early days of radio. [more @ www.washingtonpost.com]
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