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October 22, 2004

Spitzer launches music industry probe

Eliot Spitzer, fresh from rocking the insurance industry, has now asked the music business to uncover the secrets behind how radio stations decide what records they play.

EMI today confirmed that the New York State Attorney General had served it with a subpoena and was investigating the way in which the major record labels use middlemen to gain airtime with New York's broadcasters.