Payola it promoted cultural diversity and disc jockeys were less inclined to indulge their own personal and racial biases. Alan Freed, a disc jockey and early supporter of rock and roll (and also widely credited for actually coining the term), had his career and reputation greatly harmed by a payola scandal. Dick Clark's early career was nearly derailed by a payola scandal, but he avoided trouble by selling his stake in a record company and cooperating with authorities. Attempts were made to link all payola with rock and roll music. In 1976, inner-city urban soul DJ Frankie Crocker was indicted in
TV Disc Jockey is not known if any of the live episodes were recorded, and the series is possibly lost ("Hit Parade", a Seven Network series which started 1957 in which hit recordings were danced to and lip-synced by the cast, does have preserved episodes, as do later 1950s variety series like "The Bobby Limb Show" (1959-1961) which featured live music). TV Disc Jockey TV Disc Jockey was an early Australian television music program which is notable as it later evolved to become the Australian version of "Bandstand". It aired on the Nine Network's TCN-9 from 1957 to 1958. The series originally consisted