Payola fines.

[ohsherrie]

It might mean Journey and other groups will have a better chance of getting something on the radio.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01286.html

[belar]

It might mean Journey and other groups will have a better chance of getting something on the radio.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01286.html

Worth every penny if it helps.

[whocares]

BULLSHIT!

$12.5 million between the four largest radio conglomerates in the country? That's pocket change. Payola will be around as long as the media is around to take the money.

Journey stands almost NO chance of making it on the stations owned by these companies, unless someone pays up, or at least starts to do some actual promotion for the band. Azoff and hispeople have gotten paid very well, to help Journey, and what's happened to the band? They've pretty much resorted to opening for lesser bands in their own country, where they were once the biggest band in the land.

I'm not saying I want Journey to be turned into The Eagles, where you have to mortgage your home to buy a ticket to a concert, but they are getting the occasional new tune played on the radio.

[nutz4Neal]

It might mean Journey and other groups will have a better chance of getting something on the radio.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01286.html

It just might do it. It's about time these guys are called on the carpet for the way they conduct business. Just wonder how much XM etc. had to do with this.