{"id":835960,"date":"2025-03-22T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/fcc-probes-iheartmedia-following-accusations-of-payola-law-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:12:46","slug":"fcc-probes-iheartmedia-following-accusations-of-payola-law-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/fcc-probes-iheartmedia-following-accusations-of-payola-law-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Probes iHeartMedia Following Accusations of Payola Law Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission has warned radio station owners that it is cracking down on what it describes as \u201cpayola\u201d practices. In a letter sent Monday to iHeartMedia CEO Robert Pittman, FCC chairman Brendan Carr says the FCC is scrutinizing the company\u2019s activity particularly around the live music events it hosts throughout the year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/fcc-probes-iheartmedia-payola-violations-1236320564\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Thania Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission has warned radio station owners that it is cracking down on what it describes as \u201cpayola\u201d practices. In a letter sent Monday to iHeartMedia CEO Robert Pittman, FCC chairman Brendan Carr says the FCC is scrutinizing the company\u2019s activity particularly around the live music events it hosts throughout the year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97811,26885,192],"tags":[58402,14637],"class_list":{"0":"post-835960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iheartmedia","8":"category-probes","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-iheartmedia","11":"tag-probes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}