NEWS: FCC Fixes the Payola Problem (cough)

Yes! They've done it. Those millions of air-hours dedicated to the praise of useless talent like Jessica Simpson and Fergie in part thanks to the vast amounts of bribes given illegaly by labels to radio DJ's will be recompensated. CBS Radio, Clear Channel Communications, Citadel Broadcasting, and Entercom Communications, aka the four biggest names in radio have come up with a solution to repay you, the listeners for having to deal with the amount of crap you've had to listen to recently. Apparently, they will offer up 4,200 hours of local and independent music free of charge to the artists between the four of them. This is not 4,200 per station per year, it is a one time agreement where the four major companies and the hundreds of stations they own will play a combined 4,200 hours in the near future. Problem with that is most stations already have an hour long show or so per week focusing on this type of music, making the damages completely useless since they will be naturally fulfilled. YAY! Radio has been saved from the evil beast that is the major labels and we will soon be on track for a new golden age of radio full of new and exciting bands! With amazing David vs Goliath cases like this one it's only obvious that the powers that be have heard our plight and are more than willing to help. That is if what you want happens to be Bowling for Soup and Blue October for a few weeks until even they get reduced to their average spins per week and Nickelback and Sheryl Crow regair their rightful 93,200,393,920,022 spins per week. Oh by the way that last number isn't confirmed and this article is dripping with sarcasm if you couldn't tell already.