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CBS Settles With Spitzer

Published on October 20, 2006
CBS will adopt stronger policies on its stations' dealings with record labels and make a $2 million payment to New York charities as part of a settlement with NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer over illicit pay-for-play practices. Spitzer claimed that certain stations owned by CBS Radio openly solicited illegal financial benefits, expensive vacation packages, gift cards and other valuable items from record labels in exchange for playing the labels' songs. The stations also received funds from independent promoters, or "indies," upon agreeing to add certain songs to the stations' playlists.