Boss Jocks: How Corrupt Radio Practices Helped Make Jacksonville One of the Great Music Cities

Stations have constructed elaborate mechanisms to thwart such practices, and, as a result, the power to break an act has been taken out of the DJs' hands and put into the hands of program directors or, better still, independent consultants. [...] if there is corruption-and there may well be; only now it is far more efficient with fewer people to pay off-a station can distance itself from any resulting scandal and have less risk of being fined or losing its license.