Emmis Communications owns a bunch of Austin radio stations. Their holdings include KGSR, which specializes in local and Texas music, news talk station KLBJ, and KROX-FM (aka 101X).
Emmis just paid the FCC $12,000 to settle accusations that KROX-FM was involved in a “payola” scheme…
…that netted one of its hosts “valuable consideration” from a music store, a live music venue, a booking agent and a band manager.
The Statesman story is curiously short on details about the host, music store, live music venue, booking agent, and band manager who were involved. A Google search didn’t turn up much more information, but it did turn up a copy of the consent decree.
(Hattip.)
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