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98PXY: The #1 Whored Music Station

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dampier

Oops! WPXY, WDKX also implicated in Sony Payola Scandal, as per the documents coming out of Spitzer's office. Will the D&C cover it? Ha. Rochester couldn't come close to matching Buffalo's Universal.

98PXY: $$$, $750 Beyonce ticket buy
WDKX: Adidas sneakers, $$$, gift certs, 1st class travel tickets

Entercom: $3,500 for 37 spins

Dave Universal is by far the richest, extracting megacash and upsetting Sony by successfully managing to earn top dollar from them and dumping their artists on the overnight....

Clear Channel won't (BLEEP) for just anyone: "We're being told our columbia rates just won't work for all the clear channel stations... they will boycott us...."

How to conduct fake call-ins: "...it's the same couple of girls calling in every week and they are not inspired enough to be put on the air. They've got to be excited. They need to be going out, or getting drunk, or going in the hot tube (sic), or going clubbing, you get the idea."

My personal favorite: "Please book this travel for WFLY Vegas trip. Make sure Donnie (Michaels) is not staying in a room too high, he has a fear of heights." He's not afraid of his new laptop however. MEGA ROFL!

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by dampier on 07/27/05 04:21 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> Oops! WPXY, WDKX also implicated in Sony Payola Scandal, as
> per the documents coming out of Spitzer's office. Will the
> D&C cover it? Ha. Rochester couldn't come close to
> matching Buffalo's Universal.
>

The Internet is a great thing. You can read the case documents online at the NY Atty General's web site: http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/jul/payola2.pdf

What's really astonishing is how blatant the communications are. I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on the radio, but it seems to me that somebody involved had to think that there was something at least a little shady about what was going on, and that they might want to keep it a little more underground than network-stored e-mails?

I laughed out loud as I read of a multi-national corporation, with countless billions in assets, getting snookered again and again by low-ball programmers who promised spins in exchange for expensive gifts, and then played the songs in overnights only. The hilarity! It goes without saying that, based on "musical" value, those records got the fate they deserved. Is it any wonder that everybody hates 2005-era radio?

Please take a second, cut/paste the link, and see for yourself!
 
The other part of this that is hilarious is that Sony paid guys and girls to clog up request lines asking for the target records. And those obviously highly-paid and motivated hires did a surprisingly poor job!
 
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