Legal Payola?

[Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>]

It seems Payola the great hit on radio in the 50's & 60's is back with a new
twist.
Billboard reports that a Portland, OR station played 50 spins of Limp
Bizkit's "Counterfeit" during a 5-week period in January-March this year
secured with payment from the band's label.
Paying for airplay is legal as long as the station announces it; and that's
just what KUFO did. It used a produced announcement before the track
identifying it as a new song "brought to you by Flip/Interscope."
Aren't the 90's so politically correct?

Bill Piacentini

P.S. Wasn't Limp Bizkit in Tommy Dorsey's Band?

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