Clear Channel and Microsoft Expand Strategic Partnership by Bringing the New iHeartRadio to Xbox LIVE

Will Offer Kinect for Xbox 360 Users a First of Its Kind Experience – The Ability to Control Digital Radio in the Living Room with Your Voice and Body

Features Include Access to More Than 800 of the Nation’s Most Popular Broadcast and Digital-Only Stations Plus User-Created Custom Stations

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Clear Channel Radio, the leading media company in America with a greater audience reach than any radio or television outlet, announced it has expanded its multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate the New iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s free, industry-leading digital radio service, into Microsoft’s Xbox 360, the number one selling entertainment console in the United States. The New iHeartRadio will be the only digital radio service on Xbox LIVE, the premium online entertainment service for Xbox 360.

Beginning this winter, the New iHeartRadio will be available for free to Xbox LIVE Gold members. Through this new agreement, Gold members who have Kinect for Xbox 360 can use the product’s revolutionary sensor to experience an entertainment first: the ability to control digital radio in their living room using their voice and body. Gold members who have Xbox 360, but do not have Kinect, can operate the New iHeartRadio using their controller. Regardless of whether they have Kinect or not, all Xbox 360 Gold members will have access to the New iHeartRadio’s features, including more than 800 of the nation's most popular live broadcast and digital-only radio stations from 150 cities, plus custom stations with more songs, better music intelligence and more user control.

Xbox 360 users will be able to connect their New iHeartRadio accounts to Xbox LIVE for immediate access to many of the New iHeartRadio services and compelling social features through iHeartRadio’s relationship with Facebook. This initiative builds on Clear Channel and Microsoft’s previous partnerships to integrate iHeartRadio on Windows Phone 7 as well as to stream the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the incredibly successful two-day concert event which took place September 23 and 24 in Las Vegas, in HD exclusively on the Xbox 360.

“Clear Channel is committed to innovation and deep social integration. We want to continually deliver new experiences that consumers have never seen before – like the recent launch of the New iHeartRadio, which combines broadcast and digital-only stations and user-created stations in one service for the first time,” said John Hogan, CEO of Clear Channel Radio. “The New iHeartRadio’s integration with the Xbox 360 enables Kinect users to control digital radio in their living room using just their voice and body. There is nothing else like it on the market and it’s another example of how we are committed to being wherever our listeners are with the programming and services they want and expect.”

“Our partnership with Clear Channel Radio and the New iHeartRadio marks a significant milestone in our vision to bring you all the TV entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy,” said Pete Thompson, General Manager, Xbox LIVE. “By bringing the New iHeartRadio to Xbox LIVE and adding the magic of Kinect, we are transforming the way consumers experience entertainment forever.”

About Clear Channel Radio

With 237 million monthly listeners in the U.S., Clear Channel Radio has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America. Clear Channel Radio serves 150 cities through 850 owned radio stations. The company’s radio stations and content can be heard on AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, Sirius/XM satellite, on the Internet at each station’s web properties and iHeartRadio.com, and on the iHeartRadio mobile application on iPads and smartphones, and used via navigation systems from TomTom, Garmin and others. The company’s operations include radio broadcasting, online and mobile services and products, syndication, music research services and independent media representation. Clear Channel Radio is a division of CC Media Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CCMO), a leading global media and entertainment company. More information on the company can be found at www.ccmediaholdings.com.

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CONTACT:

Clear Channel Radio
Angel Aristone, 212-377-7802
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Microsoft
Eric Kwan, 323-202-1052
eric.kwan@edelman.com

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