How They Get Down: Pay for play radio
Payola is the one subject radio and record execs have a problem talking about.
Payola is the one subject radio and record execs have a problem talking about.
RapRehab, highly recommends “Aircheck: Life in Music Radio” by J.J. Johnson. An insiders perspective on the growth and changes of music radio.
The more you line your pockets with money made off of music your non-existent audience doesn’t want to hear, the more you lose the true value of your radio station.
No disrespect against a certain Doc Wynters, KJ Holiday, and a bevy of so-called “Hip-Hop and R&B” programmers who played along with the bigwigs at the largest radio conglomerate in the world to not only keep their jobs as :yes-mens”, but also to play poster boy to what Clear Channel WANTS to call “Hip-Hop”.
Longtime DJ. Mister Cee of HOT97 finally tells his story…
There is a special movement that’s about to start across the nation headed by Public Enemy’s Chuck D called “Occupy Free Air Movement”. RapRehab is proud to be a part of it.
Pay for play is a world wide problem. Paul Porter discusses payola with La X Musica Radio in Bogota, Columbia.
But what is a conspiracy? Does it always have to be hatched in secret by groups of shadowy men who promote their twisted agenda through seemingly harmless avenues?
Paul Porter goes one on one with Mo Kelly of KTLK Radio, LA