Premiere Radio launches ‘iTunes Download’ program
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 13, 2008 at 12:55pm
Premiere Radio a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, announced today the launch of The iTunes Download a three-hour weekend music countdown show hosted by iTunes Director of Music Programming Alex Luke. This weekend, the syndicated radio program will debut on Top 40 radio stations nationwide.
The show will originate from Los Angeles and will air on Saturdays or Sundays. Each week’s chart and additional information about the show can be found here. In addition to playing a selection of the 30 most downloaded songs in America, Luke will interview high-profile music artists, and feature a “celebrity playlist” compiled by various entertainers, and iMixes, which are playlists listeners create in the iTunes Store.
“The iTunes charts have become the first indicator, each week, of what millions of music fans are buying,” says Luke. “Radio is where more music buyers first hear what they want to buy and iTunes is the place they go to do it—now we’re connecting the two.”
Luke, a radio veteran, has previously served as on-air talent, music director and program director at radio stations across the U.S.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
