payola

常見例句

I am the program director of my radio station, so where’s my payola?
我是廣播電臺的節(jié)目導演，那我的賄賂在哪？
Many of the acts that now draw huge crowds emerged in an era of multi-album record contracts, lavish marketing and radio payola.
當下吸引大批觀眾的那些表演，都誕生在過去的時代，那個時代充溢著粗制濫造的唱片合同、揮霍無度的市場運作，以及賄賂電臺的丑聞。
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.
我工作的第一個目標就是對廣播電視行業(yè)和相關(guān)的機構(gòu)做出清理。在我未接手之前，這一行因機智問答節(jié)目中的幕后賄賂和相關(guān)機構(gòu)丑聞攪得一團糟。

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.
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