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Clear Channel Radio has announced that more than 340 of its primary HD Radio stations are now compatible with iTunes Tagging. “Radio continues to be the number one way that people discover new music, and the HD Radio iTunes tagging capability lets listeners add songs to their iPod playlists with just a push of the button,” said John Hogan, president and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. “With the vast majority of our HD primary stations now…
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Apr
Posted on 2008 under iTunes |
Apple announced today that they have started selling television shows in Germany via iTunes. Shows from ProSieben, Sat.1, ZDF Enterprises, Brainpool and US broadcasters ABC Studios and MTV Networks are now available on the iTunes Store in Germany.
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Apr
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The typically rigorous Ars technica claims to have intercepted an internal email sent to a few Apple employees yesterday. In it, Apple claims to be the number one music retailer in the US — a boast supported by that screenshot of an NPD MusicWatch Survey. You seeing what we’re seeing? Right, the data is from January 2008 and likely reflects people cashing in those iTunes gift cards and the giddy purchases made by new iPod owners. In other words, it’s a spike on the total sales picture in NPD’s weekly MusicWatch survey. Then there’s Apple’s own claim on February 26th that it was now the number two music retailer in the US. We don’t doubt the authenticity of the data shown, we’re just not ready to call Apple the #1 music retailer in April based on a week’s worth of data tallied back in January. Something doesn’t add up.
Update: We heard back from NPD on this, the response is predictable: “the information reported is apparently based on a proprietary leaked internal memo from Apple; therefore, NPD cannot comment on it.” Nevertheless, we can confirm that Apple’s February claim is based on NPD Data for the full 2007 calendar year — not an individual week or month. A sales victory for Apple in January, while significant if true, does not make them the top US music retailer “now” as claimed.
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