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N.Y. AG Spitzer Assails FCC on Payola

Via Red Herring.

In what promises to be a heightening turf war, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer attacked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for sabotaging his payola investigation by offering soft deals to four of the radio conglomerates that are his targets.

Mr. Spitzer has been a thorn in the side of both the terrestrial radio and music industries for illegal airtime-for-payment arrangements as both industries seek to adapt to major changes in the entertainment industry brought on by digital technology.

Mr. Spitzer told the Associated Press that the deals being bandied about by the FCC “would be a substantial evisceration of the negotiations we’re involved in.”

posted by Fergie @ 4/04/2006 07:49:00 AM