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Clear Channel is in the process of developing a feature that will allow listeners to create their own customized radio tuners on their streaming music players. The new feature, which lets listeners add their own preferences for artists, genres or songs, is expected to launch in June.
Last week, CBS Radio announced the creation of a similar feature. Dubbed Play.It, it is a joint effort between CBS Radio’s new Digital Network and AOL, and allows users to create their own personalized internet radio station and to share it with their friends.
Clear Channel Radio has also announced a number of other new initiatives, including a tool that will help local advertisers get ads on Clear Channel Radio websites.
Via a partnership with StudioNow, advertisers gain access, through Clear Channel station websites, to an online network of video and advertising freelancers that can help create video ads for local businesses, writes MediaPost.
A partnership with Gracenotes lets listeners to any of Clear Channel’s station websites find lyrics to any song, quickly and easily.
Another partnership is with Clearspring, for a widget feature that allows users to import content from station sites to other web pages.
Clear Channel recently launched a new national website, Iheartmusic.com, that includes an interactive directory of over 750 of the company’s station websites. Users can listen to the current live broadcasts of any of the sites via the single websites. They can also view the stations’ playlists.
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