{"id":4851,"date":"2011-07-26T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2011-07-26T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:15:56","slug":"doug-winner-call-your-office-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Doug Winner, call your office, please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmis.com\/\">Emmis Communications<\/a> owns a bunch of Austin radio stations. Their holdings include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=679\">KGSR<\/a>, which specializes in local and Texas music, news talk station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4627\">KLBJ<\/a>, and KROX-FM (aka 101X).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/music\/101x-settles-to-end-fcc-payola-investigation-1654625.html\">Emmis just paid the FCC $12,000 to settle accusations that KROX-FM was involved in a &#8220;payola&#8221; scheme&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/music\/101x-settles-to-end-fcc-payola-investigation-1654625.html\">&#8230;that netted one of its hosts &#8220;valuable consideration&#8221; from a music store, a live music venue, a booking agent and a band manager.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>Statesman <\/strong>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&#8217;t turn up much more information, but it did turn up <a href=\"http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2011\/db0722\/DA-11-888A1.pdf\">a copy of the consent decree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0742640\/quotes?qt0169715\">Hattip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;payola&#8221; scheme&#8230; &#8230;that netted one of its hosts &#8220;valuable consideration&#8221; from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}