Freed, Alan

At about this time, a younger disc jockey named Dick Clark began supplanting Freed's reputation with his own televised American Bandstand, and Freed underwent the first of a series of dismissals by intolerant radio executives. In addition, federal investigators turned their attention to radio payola. Freed was an easy target, because of his reputation for “corrupting” American youth and his volatile personality. His refusal to join his colleagues in signing a form denying that he'd ever...