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Radio bribery scandal
Answer for the clue "Radio bribery scandal ", 6 letters:
payola
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 (in a "Variety" headline), from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola , etc. (see pianola ). Compare also plugola (1959), from plug (n.) ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
Usage examples of payola.
Drugs arrive in tons, not ounces, so payola rolls on over all Federal enforcement agencies.
If a future Hamilton simply hates taxes on oil companies deep in his heart and oil company payola merely stiffens his resolve, the cash is his to keep.
Texas, that sulphurous combination of pollution, payola and political power unique to the Lone Star State.
My paper, the Observer, had run a front-page story with detailed evidence that cronies of the prime minister, including his princeling and other cabinet members, had bartered policies for payola, cash for access.
She poured another cup of high-caf Columbian and started thinking seriously about Shrike and its masters, and why everyone was evading as if she were a Congressional investigator out bird-dogging payola charges.
Texas, that sulfurous combination of pollution, payola and political power unique to the Lone Star State.
The commissioners also halted the financial audit, ended the political payola investigationand gave the contract back to GTech.
We ran down over a dozen senior politicians and civil servants receiving payola for awarding contracts to various companies.
Miller Leavy told the Mirror, "We think we're dealing with payola, pure and simple, and several police agencies are looking into it for us.