Three New Networks Move Into Top 25 for January Arbitron Webcast Network Ratings; NetRadio and Live365 Continue to Top the Chart.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001 Arbitron Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ARB) today announced that three new webcast networks -- StreamAudio, Public Interactive and MidWest Family Broadcasting Group -- recently joined the Arbitron Webcast Ratings(SM) network and ranked in the top 25 in January. Webcast networks are defined as radio station owners that stream their content online or companies that aggregate online audio programming. Webcast networks are ranked according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their total monthly aggregate tuning hours (ATH) -- the total sum of hours that listeners tune to a given station. StreamAudio ranked fifth with 1,387,700 ATH; Public Interactive streamed by Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Inc., ranked 13th with 324,500 ATH; and MidWest Family Broadcasting Group streamed by Activate Corp., BroadcastAMERICA, GlobalMedia and RealBroadcast Networks, ranked 25th with 104,100 ATH. In January, NetRadio, an Internet-only aggregator of online audio, streamed by Akamai Technologies Inc., maintained its number one spot with more than 2.9 million ATH. Live365, a leading 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. provider that enables consumers, terrestrial radio stations and organizations to create their own radio stations or listen to thousands of stations created by others, remained in the number two spot with more than 2.4 million ATH. Arbitron Webcast Ratings currently measures 2,300 stations and channels that provide Arbitron with access to their server data. These channels represent more than 17 million total hours of tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune January 2001. The rankings included in the January 2001 Arbitron Webcast Ratings are based on those stations and channels that have provided Arbitron with access to their server data by March 15, 2001. The ratings may not reflect all tuning for the measured stations or channels, since Arbitron may have received data after the cut-off date, received incomplete server data or received some data that was not usable. Background and Methodology Arbitron Webcast Ratings debuted with October 1999 data as the world's first streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. ratings service Ratings Service A company, such as Moody's or Standard & Poor's, that rates various debt and preferred stock issues for safety of payment of principal, interest, or dividends. . Arbitron Webcast Ratings provides ratings for streamed media because webcasters need objective, third-party audience measurement to demonstrate the value of their audiences to agencies and advertisers. Arbitron Webcast Ratings is a server-side measurement, which captures all tuning to participating streamed media channels by compiling a near census of Internet tuning sessions. This ratings report compiled Aggregate Tuning Hours during the month of January for listeners to over 2,300 Internet audio See RealAudio. channels being streamed by or affiliated with ABC Radio ABC Radio is a broadcasting unit of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation.[1] ABC Radio was, from 1945 until 2007, the division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. , ABC Radio Networks, AccelerNet, Activate Corp., Akamai Technologies, Inc., Beethoven.com, Beta Lounge, BroadcastAMERICA, The BroadcastWeb Network, Inc., Cablemusic Networks, Inc., Classic Radio, Inc., Control Room Technologies, Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment Inc. TSX: CJR.B NYSE: CJR is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, advertising and digital audio services, television , CyberAxis, DiscJockey.com, Dublab, Enigma Digital, Entravision, eYada.com, Fordham University Fordham University (fôr`dəm), in New York City; Jesuit; coeducational; founded as St. John's College 1841, chartered as a university 1846; renamed 1907. Fordham College for men and Thomas More College for women merged in 1974. , GAYBC Radio Network, Ginger Online, GlobalMedia, GUS GUS Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten (German: CIS) GUS Gravis Ultrasound GUS Great Universal Stores GUS Grown Up Soda GUS Giornalisti Uffici Stampa (Italian) GUS Guide to the Use of Standards Networks, House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically Digital, Inc., iBEAM Broadcasting Corp., Live365, MEDIAmazing, NetRadio, Northwestern University, NRJ nrj energy NRJ Natural Resources Journal NRJ National Research Journal (periodical of the National Research Guild) NRJ Nero Jukebox Compilation File (file extension) Energy Radio Sweden, Pacific Lutheran University Pacific Lutheran University is located in the Parkland suburb of Tacoma, Washington. As of September 2007, PLU had a student population of 3,669 and approximately 250 full-time faculty. , Public Interactive, RadioValve, RealBroadcast Networks, Rivals.com, Salem Communications, The Sporting News Online, StreamAudio, SyncCast, TigerRadio.com, the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. 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Arbitron Webcast Networks Ratings Report -- January 2001
Top 25 Aggregate Tuning Hours (ATH)
Rank Corporate Affiliate ATH Internet Services
1 NetRadio(a) 2,920,500 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
2 Live365 2,431,400 Live365
3 GlobalMedia 1,992,100 Activate Corp.,
GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks
4 ABC Radio Networks 1,879,500 RealBroadcast Networks
5 StreamAudio 1,387,700 Akamai Technologies, Inc.,
StreamAudio
6 Beethoven.com 727,400 iBEAM Broadcasting
7 Cablemusic Networks, 618,800 Cablemusic Networks, Inc.
Inc.
8 Corus Entertainment 526,500 Activate Corp.
9 Enigma Digital 465,700 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
10 DiscJockey.com(a) 371,100 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
11 Fisher Broadcasting 356,800 Activate Corp.,
Co. BroadcastAMERICA,
GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks
12 Bonneville 345,900 Activate Corp.,
International Corp. GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks
13 Public Interactive(a) 324,500 Akamai Technologies, Inc.,
Public Interactive
14 BroadcastAMERICA 320,800 Activate Corp.,
BroadcastAMERICA, Control
Room Technologies,
RealBroadcast Networks,
Rivals.com
15 MEDIAmazing 251,600 MEDIAmazing
16 New Wave Broadcasting 243,700 Activate Corp., Akamai
LP Technologies, Inc.,
GlobalMedia, StreamAudio
17 Classic Radio, Inc. 239,100 RealBroadcast Networks
18 Scottish Media Group 232,200 Ginger Online
19 Salem Communications 206,900 AccelerNet, Activate Corp,
Corporation Akamai Technologies, Inc.,
BroadcastAMERICA,
GlobalMedia, Oneplace.com,
RealBroadcast Networks,
StreamAudio
20 Pacific Lutheran 203,500 Activate Corp., Akamai
University Technologies, Inc., Public
Interactive, StreamAudio
21 House of Blues 182,600 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Digital, Inc.
22 Standard Broadcasting 159,300 GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks
23 Radio Margaritaville, 133,300 BroadcastAMERICA,
LLC RealBroadcast Networks
24 Clear Channel 131,300 Akamai Technologies, Inc.,
Communications, Inc. CyberAxis, SyncCast,
GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks, StreamAudio
25 MidWest Family 104,100 Activate Corp.,
Broadcasting Group BroadcastAMERICA,
GlobalMedia, RealBroadcast
Networks
(a) Arbitron has been informed that this channel/station had reporting
difficulties or only partial data was given during the reported
period. Please contact the webcaster for further information.
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