“Clear Channel Communications Inc. is putting free recordings of programming from dozens of its stations on the Internet for downloading. Through its program syndication unit, it is also selling subscriptions to listeners who want to download archived talk shows from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others,” Frank Barnako reports for MarketWatch. “‘If we take your best pieces of programming, brand them and put them out there, we’re going to grow our audience,’ Evan Harrison, Clear Channel’s head of online music and radio, told the Wall Street Journal.”

Barnako reports, “The popularity of audio files for download is growing. Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store now includes 15,000 free shows, called podcasts. Visitors have subscribed to more than 7 million, the Journal reported.”

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