N-UNCOUNT Payola is the illegal practice of paying radio broadcasters to play certain music, so that it will become more popular and therefore make more profits for the record company. (唱片公司对电台的)商业贿赂 [美国英语]
My first objective in the job was to clean up the agency and the industry, which before I arrived had been embroiled in quiz-show, payola, and agency scandals.
我工作的第一个目标就是对广播电视行业和相关的机构做出清理。 在我未接手之前，这一行因机智问答节目中的幕后贿赂和相关机构丑闻搅得一团糟。
The announcer was fired for taking payola.
播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了。
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