{"id":79,"date":"2004-06-11T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2004-06-11T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T22:24:35","slug":"the-death-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/11\/the-death-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/front\/2621567\">HoustonChronicle.com<\/a> reports that the record industries have finally found a way to resurrect the payolla scandals of early Rock &#038; Roll.<\/p>\n<p>In a strange twist, it seems that it was the radio station&#8217;s idea this time around.  We know it is illegal to pay a station to play a song on it&#8217;s own; however, if they play it as an advertisment ( &#8220;And now, Avril Lavigne&#8217;s <i>Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/i>, presented by Arista Records.&#8221;) it is perfectly legal.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of this is that it completely invalidates the Top 40 charts, since they only count the number of times a song is played. This method, even though it&#8217;s paid for, counts as a play. With the amount of late-night and early-morning airtime available at low rates, this allows record companies to seriously skew a song&#8217;s rating using ad-plays.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more reason the music industry sucks.<\/p>\n<p>You want my opinion? Go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garageband.com\">GarageBand.Com<\/a> and hear some new music from small bands for free.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HoustonChronicle.com reports that the record industries have finally found a way to resurrect the payolla scandals of early Rock &#038; Roll. In a strange twist, it seems that it <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/11\/the-death-of-radio\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}