Payola is a term used to describe payments of record companies to radio stations for airplay. It is known that throughout the existence of radio payola was always implicated. From the early 20’s and 30’s record companies would pay cash to radio disk jockeys to demand airplay of their records. There was no record that payola was a crime until Alan Freed, a famous rock n roll disk jockey accepted that he had received $2,500 as a bribe to give airplay to certain records. The case was brought up to court and later a statute was created that declared payola as a misdemeanor penalty with a fine up to ten thousand dollars in fines and one year in prison. Many disk jockeys were summoned to court, but the most famous were Alan Freed and Dick Clark. Dick Clark denied in court that he had received bribes from any record companies, and was never accused of any crimes, even if he had monetary involvements with record companies. On the other hand, Alan freed was suspended six months from radio, and later lost any opportunity to continue working. He died at the age of 43 with no money and no career.