AM News/Talk Stations Make Strong Showing in Measurecast, Inc. Weekly Top 25 List for Week of September 10 Through 16.Business Editors, Entertainment Writers PORTLAND Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , Ore.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001 Internet Radio Listening to audio broadcasts via the Internet. There are more than 4,000 broadcasts available on the Internet that can be streamed and played by a software media player in the computer or in a stand-alone Internet radio with the software built in. Listening Growth Rate Flat from Previous Week MeasureCast, Inc., the first company to provide Internet radio broadcasters with next-day Courier services that are defined as being delivered on the next day within a country. Next day deliveries usually fall into service categories depending upon the time that delivery is able to be guaranteed. audience size and demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. reports, today announced that five AM News/Talk stations measured by MeasureCast -- WSB-AM/750, WLS-AM/890, KRLA-AM/870, WTMJ-AM/620 and CFRB/1010-AM -- made the MeasureCast Weekly Top 25(TM) List for the week of September September: see month. 10-16. All of these stations are first time entrants to the list, and all streamed coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attack on America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. . In addition, Santa Monica College Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately station KCRW-FM/89.9, which switched programming to cover the September 11 events, reached number eight on the list -- the highest ranking the station has ever achieved. London-based terrestrial Dealing with the earth. See terrestrial link. broadcaster jazzfm (www.jazzfm.com) retained the number one spot in the rankings, with Seattle's KING-FM/98.1, a classical terrestrial station owned by Beethoven Corp, moving up to the second spot from fifth the previous week. Boston's WAAF-FM/107.3 was another big mover mover /mov·er/ (moo´ver) that which produces motion. prime mover a muscle that acts directly to bring about a desired movement. , entering the Top 25 for the first time at number nineteen. Overall, the total time spent listening Time spent listening (TSL) is one of the measurements surveyed by Arbitron in determining ratings for radio stations in the U.S.. The TSL is the amount of time the average listener surveyed spent listening to each radio station at one time, before changing the station or (TTSL TTSL Tata Teleservices Ltd. (India) TTSL Total Time Spent Listening TTSL Trying To Supress Laughter ) to a spectrum of Internet radio stations tracked by MeasureCast for the week was roughly the same as the previous week, with the MeasureCast Internet Radio Index(TM) dipping a half a percentage point to 215. This number indicates, however, that listening to Internet Radio has more than doubled since the beginning of this year.
The MeasureCast Weekly Top 25(TM)
(Monday, September 10 to Sunday, September 16, 2001)
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Total
Owner/ TSL(1) Cume
Rank Station Format Network (in hours) Persons(2)
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1 JazzFM/102.2 Jazz JazzFm.com/ 184,536 55,602
FM & 100.4 FM ejazz.fm
(London)
URL: www.jazzfm.com
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2 KING-FM/98.1 Classical Classic 84,861 14,337
(Seattle) Radio Inc.
Real Broadcast
Networks
URL: www.king.org
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3 Virgin Radio/1215 Adult Virgin Radio 66,956 12,884
AM & 105.8 FM Alt. New Media
(London)
URL: www.virginradio.co.uk
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4 WSB-AM/750 News/Talk Cox Radio, 57,597 10,021
(Atlanta) Inc./StreamAudio.com
URL: www.wsbradio.com
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5 ESPN Radio Sports Talk The Walt 57,383 14,185
(Internet-only) Disney Internet
URL: www.espnradio.com Group
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6 MEDIAmazing Listener MEDIAmazing 57,341 25,297
(Internet-only) Formatted
URL: www.mediamazing.com
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7 Radio Classic Radio 45,880 8,315
Margaritaville Rock Margaritaville
(Internet-only)
URL: www.radiomargaritaville.com
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8 KCRW-FM/89.9 College Santa Monica 45,105 8,741
(Los Angeles) College
URL: www.kcrw.org
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9 WLS-AM/890 News/Talk ABC Radio 40,863 12,731
(Chicago) Networks
URL: http://www.wlsam.com/
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10 WFXZ-FM/93.7 Classic Sea-Comm Media/ 38,676 6,340
(Wilmington, NC) Rock Warp Radio
URL: www.937thebone.com
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11 WEEI-AM/850 AM Sports Entercom/ 33,607 5,104
(Boston) Radio StreamAudio
URL: www.weei.com
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12 KRLA-AM/870 News/Talk Salem 32,121 5,515
(Los Angeles) Communications
URL: www.krla870.com
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13 Alice New Media Misc. Alice New Media 31,521 3,532
(Internet-only)
URL: www.aliceonair.com
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14 3WK Alt. Rock3WK 29,318 8,815
Undergroundradio
(Internet-only)
URL: www.3wk.com
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15 Radio 13 Misc. Radio 13 29,247 10,340
(Internet-only) Network
URL: www.radio13.net
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16 WTMJ-AM/620 News/Talk Journal 26,965 3,108
(Milwaukee) Broadcast Group/
SurferNETWORK
URL: www.620wtmj.com
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17 CFRB-AM/1010 News/Talk Standard 26,648 3,766
(Toronto) Broadcasting/
SurferNETWORK
URL: www.cfrb.com
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18 Cablemusic Jazz Cablemusic.com 26,448 4,126
Smooth Jazz
(Internet-only)
URL: www.cablemusic.com
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19 WAAF-FM/107.3 Active Entercom/ 26,116 4,584
(Boston) Rock StramAudio.com
URL: http://www.waaf.com/
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20 BeOnAir Rock Rock BeOnAir.com 23,274 3,415
(Internet-only)
URL: www.rock.beonair.com
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21 Cablemusic Country Cablemusic.com 21,755 5,286
Country
(Internet-only)
URL: www.cablemusic.com
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22 Cablemusic CHR/Top 40 Cablemusic.com 19,400 4,575
Top 40
(Internet-only)
URL: www.cablemusic.com
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23 BeOnAir Alt. RockBeOnAir.com 17,456 2,396
Alternative
(Internet-only)
URL: www.alternative.beonair.com
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24 WKXB-FM/99.9 CHR/Top 40 Sea-Comm Media/ 16,639 2,573
(Burgaw, NC) Warp Radio
URL: www.jammin999.com
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25 CKFM-FM/99.9 Adult Standard 16,015 2,010
(Toronto) Cont. Broadcasting/
SurferNETWORK
URL: www.mix999.com
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Notes: All reported stations stream through Globix, RealBroadcast Networks, SurferNetwork or a broadcaster's in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. servers. 1. Total TSL TSL Texas State Library TSL Transport Layer Security TSL Techsideline.com (website) TSL Teen Second Life (website) TSL The Svedberg Laboratory (Uppsala, Sweden) (Total Time Spent Listening) is the total number of hours streamed by the broadcaster in the reported time period. 2. Cume Cume Cumulative Audience (not an acronym) Persons is an estimate of the total number of unique listeners who had one or more listening sessions lasting five minutes or longer during the reported time period. This estimate is derived using an algorithm algorithm (ăl`gərĭth'əm) or algorism (–rĭz'əm) [for Al-Khowarizmi], a clearly defined procedure for obtaining the solution to a general type of problem, often numerical. that takes into account unique media player GUIDs, unique IP addresses, and other variables during the reported time period. Other facts for the week of September 10 to September 16: -- 82% of all listening occurred between 5 a.m. Pacific and 5 p.m. Pacific. -- The peak listening hour was 9 a.m. Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern), with 8.5% of the day's listening. -- 10% of the week's TTSL occurred over the weekend. -- The peak listening day was Monday, Sept. 10 with 22% of all TTSL occurring on this day. -- The largest single age group listening to Internet radio last week: 25-34 year-olds (31%). -- 55% of listeners were under 35; 25% were younger than 25, and 6% were over 55. -- 69% of listeners were men; 31% were women. -- Top streaming nations include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Australia. -- 31% of U.S. listeners were from the South, with the Western U.S. accounting for 29%. About MeasureCast, Inc. MeasureCast, Inc. is the first company to provide Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the broadcasters, advertisers, and media buyers with true third-party audience size and demographic information with the MeasureCast Streaming Audience Measurement Service(TM). MeasureCast employs patent-pending Active Event Monitoring In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signalling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. (TM), a unique server-side Refers to any operation that is performed at the server. Contrast with client-side. (World-Wide Web) server-side - Processing or content generation that is done on the web server or other server, as opposed to on the client computer where the web browser is running. technology, to record the exact number of streams requested from Internet broadcasters' streaming servers Refers to a dedicated computer system delivering streaming media or to a streaming service within a Web or application server. See streaming audio and streaming video. . Accurate, secure reports are available to customers within 24 hours of a webcast via a password protected web site. MeasureCast supports Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media Technologies, RealNetworks (RealNetworks, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.realnetworks.com) The company behind the RealMedia and the RealPlayer technologies. Originally Progressive Networks, product names have a Real prefix (RealPlayer, RealOne, RealArcade, RealAudio, etc.). See RealMedia. RealSystem servers and other proprietary streaming technologies. The company issues a weekly MeasureCast Top 25(TM) list of Internet radio broadcasters, and a weekly MeasureCast Internet Radio Index(TM), which tracks the growth of on-line radio listening. For additional information and a demonstration, visit www.measurecast.com. Corporate headquarters is located at 921 SW Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. St., Suite 800, Portland, Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. 97205. |
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