[BC] Look for a very old Public Notice - 1975

[gRAdy Moates]

> Might someone have or know where to find an electronic version 
> of the FCC Public Notice released September 3, 1975 setting 
> forth the Commission's 36 interpretations of Section 317 and 
> Rule Section 73.1212.  It deals with PAYOLA.  

    Since I was AT the station that I believe was the reason for 
that re-examination of the rule, at the time the infraction 
occurred, I am extremely interested in a copy of this document, 
as well, just for historical purposes, and maybe to go in my 
61-year-old-geezer scrapbook.  Which I is really just some 
cardboard boxes full of stuff I haven't organized.  

    For those who don't know, one or more members of the air-staff 
were alleged to have been running a "Plugola" scheme, in which 
announcers would "accept" a "token of appreciation" from a 
concert/show promoter in return for playing an artist's records 
a little more often than might otherwise have happened, and 
making little side-comments about the upcoming show.  

    In the absence of such a "gift", artist's records might 
get played a little less often than might otherwise have 
happened, and no upcoming show mentions would occur, other 
than spots bought from the station.  

    I do not have any knowledge of such activities myself.  
I do know that the station's license was forfeited at a 
below-market price as a result of that investigation, and I 
had to design (rip-off someone else's design) and hand-build a 
(no budget to purchase an expensive, new) tape-logging system 
to run 24/7 so that station ownership/management could maintain 
"reasonable oversight".  

    As Patty Hewes said in the first episode of this season's 
"Damages" on FX: "Everyone is Looking to Play an Angle."  

    It's what I hate about life.  

Grady