Both radio and television management must be watchful for instances of staff payola and plugola.
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Plugola
//plʌˈɡoʊlə//
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Portland's TV stations regularly employ plugola in news programming as a way of promoting parent network programming […].
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It’s unclear just how widespread such “plugola” schemes are now. But an FCC report, published in June, cited a 2010 Pew survey in which 24 percent of local TV news executives reported “a blurring of lines between advertising and news.”
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