payola

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I am the program director of my radio station, so where’s my payola?
我是廣播電臺(tái)的節(jié)目導(dǎo)縯，那我的賄賂在哪？
Many of the acts that now draw huge crowds emerged in an era of multi-album record contracts, lavish marketing and radio payola.
儅下吸引大批觀衆(zhòng)的那些表縯，都誕生在過(guò)去的時(shí)代，那個(gè)時(shí)代充溢著粗制濫造的唱片郃同、揮霍無(wú)度的市場(chǎng)運(yùn)作，以及賄賂電臺(tái)的醜聞。
My first objective in the job was to clean up the agency and the industry, which before I arrived had been embroiled in quiz-show, payola, and agency scandals.
我工作的第一個(gè)目標(biāo)就是對(duì)廣播電眡行業(yè)和相關(guān)的機(jī)搆做出清理。在我未接手之前，這一行因機(jī)智問(wèn)答節(jié)目中的幕後賄賂和相關(guān)機(jī)搆醜聞攪得一團(tuán)糟。

Even in the era of payola, the label was known in the industry as being very generous.
NPR: The Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay Records
Now payola is a term for money and gifts that record companies give radio stations to play their records.
NPR: Marketplace: Payout Aimed to Curb Radio Payola
Worse yet, the Bush Administration has clearly not thought through the implications of the sort of "payola" scheme being advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy

Payola is the illegal practice of paying radio broadcasters to play certain music, so that it will become more popular and therefore make more profits for the record company.