Clear Channel claims to have stopped taking payments for independent promotion in April, 2003. Check out

http://www.clearchannel.com/documents/press_releases/20030409

Does anyone have any facts that would disprove this? Frankly, I don't know one way or another. However, it would seem to me that CC would be asking for real political trouble if it continued to take promo money after publicly declaiming it. There is a potential threat of legislation vs. radio that CC and other chains would rather avoid.