AlarmManager, BroadcastReceiver and Service not working

I'm refactoring some code so that my app will pull data from a website once a day at a given time. From my research, it seems like AlarmManager is the most appropriate approach.

The tutorial I have been following is: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-fundamentals-downloading-data-with-services/

So far, AlarmManager and the BroadcastReceiver seem to be working, however the Service never seems to start (ie. onStartCommand doesn't seem to be called)

Here are the important snippets of the code I have so far:

MyActivity.java

private void setRecurringAlarm(Context context) {
    Calendar updateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    updateTime.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
    updateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 20);
    updateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);

    Intent downloader = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class);
    downloader.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, downloader, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
    AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    // should be AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY (but changed to 15min for testing)
    alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, updateTime.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_FIFTEEN_MINUTES, pendingIntent); 
    Log.d("MyActivity", "Set alarmManager.setRepeating to: " + updateTime.getTime().toLocaleString());
}

AlarmReceiver.java

public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Intent dailyUpdater = new Inten