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Payola Investigates Nation’s Top Radio Stations

Published on February 14, 2006
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has the Federal Communications Commission questioning hundreds of radio stations in his pay-for-play payola investigation, writes Radio Ink. Nine of the country's largest radio conglomerates have been subpoenaed in the payola investigation of artists and songs, which, according to AZ Central, Spitzer says got airtime because of payoffs by recording companies.