For those of you who have yet to slip the surly bonds of over-the-air radio, I present an amusing tidbit: a 60-page PDF of e-mails detailing what Sony was giving/paying to radio stations to play their crap music, as well as a nice sprinkling throughout of what radio stations were on the take (this is part of the $10 million settlement that Sony just paid for Payola).
Link via BoingBoing
This is classic! Heard about it on the radio on the way to work this morning! ;p
Do you remember the scandal that Sony was involved with a few years back??? As I recall, Sony got sued for creating many movie critics that they used in their commericals to boast such things in trailers such as “Stunning!”, “Provactive”, “The Years Best Motion Picture”. But, none the critics reviewed movies other than Sony films and actually worked directly for Sony! ;p (Explaning why, only too often, you go to see a film that is crap and wonder later “What were those critics thinking??“. About a paycheck obviously!)
I hate Sony! I never touch anything with the Sony name on it. As far as I’m concerned, they are far worse than Mircosoft! EVERYTHING THEY MAKE IS PROPRIETARY. (Video 8, Hi-8, Digital 8, Memory Stick, Betamax.)
BITE ME SONY!
Well this would explain how Atreyu is so popular on 94.7 in chicago here…. I figured it was payouts.
Bah, the only radio I listen to is the local classical station which doubles as NPR. Mostly because I found out looong ago that radio music was crap. I remember enjoying it greatly on the bus rides to middle school about 8 years ago, but after that it was headphones for lyfe yo.
Oh, and I have been a listener of Somafm.com for about a year or two now. I love that site.
Now all they need to do is crack down on the retarded advertisements on the radio, and maybe it’ll be listenable again. (It’s not just airwave radio; my coworker plays espnradio all day and I swear to god I hear the same Dannon Frusion add every 20 minutes.)