Clear Channel Announces Major Update to iHeartRadio For iPad App

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Clear Channel Announces Major Update to iHeartRadio For iPad App

Both Live Broadcast and Custom Stations In One Fully-Integrated Service - Now Available on iPad

Includes Support for Retina Display on the New iPad and Deeper Facebook Integration

New York, NY鈥 May 3, 2012 鈥 Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the leading media company in America with greater reach than any radio or television outlet, today released an update to its popular, free iHeartRadio for iPad App.听 The latest update is a major milestone for the New iHeartRadio 鈥 Clear Channel鈥檚 industry-leading digital radio service which launched last fall at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the biggest live concert event in radio history.

The updated app features a completely refreshed design with new functionality and brings users a customizable digital listening experience that combines the best of both worlds 鈥 live broadcast and custom stations 鈥 to deliver everything listeners want in one, fully-integrated service.听 The iHeartRadio for iPad App now includes:

Custom stations, allowing users to create their own personalized stations by simply entering an artist or song and iHeartRadio will then create a station of similar music.听 iHeartRadio鈥檚 custom stations offer a number of industry-leading features, including:
More Songs 鈥 Users can draw from a massive catalog of nearly 14 million songs and 400,000 artists.
Greater User Control 鈥 With its unique 鈥渄iscovery tuner,鈥 users can tune their Custom Station to play familiar songs 鈥 or adjust the tuner to 鈥渄iscovery mode鈥 to play a wider variety of artists and songs from iHeartRadio鈥檚 massive music catalog.听 A 鈥淭humbs Up鈥 or 鈥淭humbs Down鈥 feature allows users to indicate song preferences to further personalize their stations.
Better Music Intelligence 鈥 iHeartRadio鈥檚 music intelligence capability combines a sophisticated technology solution with ongoing consumer music research and the expertise of Clear Channel鈥檚 leading radio programmers to give users the best custom radio experience available.
Commercial-free 鈥 Custom stations continue to be commercial-free since launch last September.
Support for the Retina display on the new iPad, enabling users to experience the New iHeartRadio with stunning visual clarity; and听
Deeper Facebook integration, which lets users share listening activity with friends via their timelines and tap into each other鈥檚 musical tastes by listening to songs and stations that they like.听 This deeper Facebook integration serves as a means to greater music discovery, making users鈥 digital radio experiences more personal and relevant.
As always, iHeartRadio users on the iPad can listen to more than 800 broadcast radio and commercial-free digital-only stations from 150 cities, streamed in high-quality AAC format.听 iHeartRadio now also听 includes a number of other stations, formats and programming such as Univision, Greater Media stations, WNYC, EMF鈥檚 Contemporary Christian Air1 and K Love stations, college radio and, coming soon, more than 500 Cumulus stations.听 Users can continue to save favorite stations and songs; access artist slideshows; search for a station by location, name or music genre; and experience its multimedia content including photos, performance videos and artist interviews.

鈥淲ith this update to the iHeartRadio for iPad App, we鈥檝e focused intently on user feedback.听 We wanted to make sure it was the experience our millions of users wanted and expected from us 鈥 and we鈥檙e thrilled with how it has all come together,鈥 said Brian Lakamp, President of Digital for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. 鈥淭his update reflects our commitment to ongoing innovation and ensuring we offer the ultimate digital radio experience for our listeners. These enhancements 鈥 from artist and song-inspired personalized stations to the Retina display support 鈥 are great examples of how Clear Channel works intensively with the unique interface and technology of a device to custom-tailor the best digital radio experience for users.鈥

鈥淭his is another great example of how we continue to capitalize on our company鈥檚 incredible digital assets, and integrate those efforts with our strong local and national consumer brands, to deliver powerful solutions with unparalleled consumer reach and strong listener loyalty,鈥 said John Hogan, Chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. 鈥淒igital continues to be a big opportunity for us and as the industry-leading broadcast and digital company, we are dedicated to providing our millions of listeners the best services on mobile and desktop.鈥

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, with its 237 million monthly listeners in the U.S., has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America.听 Clear Channel also continues to be one of the most popular digital music destinations, given the 100 million listening hours a month, more than 80 million downloads of iHeartRadio mobile apps, and more than a 15 million fan reach through its station and radio personality Facebook pages.

iHeartRadio for iPad App is available for free from the App Store on iPad or by visiting:

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