{"id":329,"date":"2002-06-25T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2002-06-25T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-08-08T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T00:06:49","slug":"finally-the-system-is-being-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/finally-the-system-is-being-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, the system is being exposed!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/feature\/2002\/06\/25\/pfp_congress\/index.html\" class=\"extlink\">Salon.com Arts &amp; Entertainment | Will Congress tackle pay-for-play?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once a hush-hush topic rarely discussed even within the music industry, &#8220;pay-for-play,&#8221; the costly system by which record companies pay independent promoters to get songs on the radio, has now become a hot-button political issue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some members of Congress are talking about holding hearings and offering legislation in hopes of tearing down the entrenched pay-for-play system. Not only does pay-for-play cost the music industry approximately $150 million each year, it virtually shuts off access to commercial FM radio for artists or record companies who can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote a new single. Inside the industry, the veil has also been lifted; an entire panel discussion devoted to indie promotion is being put together for the radio industry&#8217;s largest annual convention this fall. <b>Meanwhile, ABC&#8217;s &#8220;20\/20&#8243; ran a prime-time segment on pay-for-play, and even the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have introduced the topic to their readers.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com Arts &amp; Entertainment | Will Congress tackle pay-for-play? &#8220;Once a hush-hush topic rarely discussed even within the music industry, &#8220;pay-for-play,&#8221; the costly system by which record companies pay independent promoters to get songs on the radio, has now become a hot-button political issue. &#8220;Some members of Congress are talking about holding hearings and offering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/finally-the-system-is-being-exposed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally, the system is being exposed!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}