Radio broadcasters don’t want to be linked publicly to efforts to...
Radio broadcasters don’t want to be linked publicly to efforts to fight payola by a group of independent music labels that has devised standards to fight the practice, said Don Rose, acting pres.-American Assn. of Independent Music. The group…
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hopes to unveil guidelines within a week to improve transparency of music labels and radio station ties, he told us. N.Y. Attorney Gen. Eliot Spitzer has backed the attempt by more than 100 independent music labels to get broadcasters to agree on standards (CD April 21 p2). Some broadcast officials have been “supportive” of the guidelines, Rose said: “Many of them have been invited, but there’s such a climate of caution surrounding any of the moves here, that we're trying to be sensitive to the particular circumstances of anybody who has offered to lend assistance.” Officials at CBS Radio, Clear Channel and Citadel didn’t return our calls. The group of smaller music labels will provide payola recommendations to the FCC once it gets backing from several more organizations such as unions, said Rose.