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The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications yesterday of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The lawsuit is the first time that Mr. Spitzer has focused his continuing payola investigation on a broadcaster. In papers filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers. Mr. Spitzer had been seeking a settlement of about $20 million from Entercom. The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The lawsuit is the first one that Mr. Spitzer has filed in the inquiry, which began in 2004. Mr. Spitzer had been seeking a settlement of about $20 million from Entercom. Mr. Spitzer also focused on a program created in part by Mr. Paxton and Mr. Field, called CD Preview.