Yes, a law was broken.

… on the same station, where they met each other. Can’t blame him for wanting some level of privacy. Any laws broken? Doesn’t look like it. Gene is good at what he does, I’ve gotten good info from his show.

Gene Henssler has done a financial advise show on WGST for, seems like decades.

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Tom Peary

Russ G

1 min readApr 21, 2018

Yes, a law was broken. Anyone in radio is aware of payola/plugola laws that prohibit an air personality from promoting a product or service for personal gain without disclosing the paid relationship to the listeners and the station.

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