payola

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I am the program director of my radio station, so where’s my payola?
我是广播电台的节目导演，那我的贿赂在哪？
Many of the acts that now draw huge crowds emerged in an era of multi-album record contracts, lavish marketing and radio payola.
当下吸引大批观众的那些表演，都诞生在过去的时代，那个时代充溢着粗制滥造的唱片合同、挥霍无度的市场运作，以及贿赂电台的丑闻。
My first objective in the job was to clean up the agency and the industry, which before I arrived had been embroiled in quiz-show, payola, and agency scandals.
我工作的第一个目标就是对广播电视行业和相关的机构做出清理。在我未接手之前，这一行因机智问答节目中的幕后贿赂和相关机构丑闻搅得一团糟。

Even in the era of payola, the label was known in the industry as being very generous.
NPR: The Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay Records
Now payola is a term for money and gifts that record companies give radio stations to play their records.
NPR: Marketplace: Payout Aimed to Curb Radio Payola
Worse yet, the Bush Administration has clearly not thought through the implications of the sort of "payola" scheme being advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy

Payola is the illegal practice of paying radio broadcasters to play certain music, so that it will become more popular and therefore make more profits for the record company.