iHeartMedia Settles FCC Payola Investigation, Agrees to Adopt New Reporting Measures to Ensure Legal Compliance

iHeartMedia, the largest proprietor of vigor stations successful the U.S., agreed to participate into a consent decree with FCC to settee a probe the bureau launched past twelvemonth into iHeartMedia’s compliance with national rules prohibiting a circumstantial signifier of payola dubbed “showola” — which involves vigor stations pressuring artists to execute astatine station-hosted euphony shows […]