KCRW’s Celia Hirschman Criticizes FCC For Lack Action On Payola

Celia Hirschman’s weekly commentary of the music industry "On The Beat" for LA’s KCRW-FM featured a strong commentary on NY Attorney General Elliott Spitzer’s major label payola probe, the effects that it will and won’t have on radio, and how the FCC has so totally dropped the ball on this issue should be doing: "

"Elliot Spitzer is really doing the groundwork that the Federal Communications Commission should be doing. The FCC’s role is to manage the licensing process and maintain the integrity of the US radio airwaves, free from corruption. Everyone who’s been in the music business for more than a few minutes knows that there’s payola in the commercial radio world."

Hirschman is an industry insider whose Downtown Marketing firm acts as consultants to CMJ, Bryan Adams manager Bruce Allen and others. 

You can read a transcript of the show or listen to it here.