• by Jack Loechner , Staff Writer, March 5, 2004

Internet Broadcast Ratings For February 2-8

According to the latest Arbitron data, AOL Radio@Network was ranked the Top Internet Broadcaster with 6,124,864 hours of Total Time Spent Listening, the sum total of hours listeners tune to a given station or network, for the week of February 2. LAUNCH follows as the number two commercial Internet Broadcaster.

MUSICMATCH was the top-ranked non-commercial Internet Broadcaster. The Adsertion Network was ranked as the top Internet Radio Advertising Sales Network. MUSICMATCH Artist Match was the top non-commercial Internet Broadcast Station. Virgin Radio was ranked as the highest commercial Internet Broadcast Station.

Top 15 Internet Broadcasters and Sales Networks (February 2 - February 8)

	Company	TTSL	Cume
1	AOL Radio@Network	6,124,864	1,547,903
2	LAUNCH	4,692,881	987,898
3	MUSICMATCH	2,442,561	571,527
4	The Adsertion Network	724,086	107,673
5	Virgin Radio	484,195	85,331
6	Educational Media Foundation	409,712	56,124
7	AccuRadio	210,047	75,707
8	KillerOldies.com	134,847	26,082
9	KPLU	105,148	14,561
10	Emap	97,065	39,441
11	Mak Radio	94,051	25,928
12	WOXY-FM	93,459	16,273
13	WBUR	91,411	25,879
14	WXPN-FM	83,039	12,057
15	WKSU-FM	78,884	20,802

Source: Arbitron

Top 20 Arbitron Internet Broadcast Stations (February 2 - February 8)

	Station	Format	TTSL	Cume
1	MUSICMATCH ArtMch	Miscellaneous	950,830	309,726
2	K-LOVE	ContempChristian	315,132	39,947
3	Virgin Radio	Adult Contemp	291,483	60,741
4	AOL Top Country	Country	271,146	106,431
5	AOL Smooth Jazz	Smooth Jazz	246,572	53,809
6	AOL Lite Rock	Soft Rock	233,764	42,674
7	AOL Top Pop	Pop	224,087	127,187
8	AOL Awesome 80s	80s	206,332	72,226
9	AOL Classic Rock	Classic Rock	200,182	64,303
10	MUSICMATCH ArtDnd	Miscellaneous	194,462	52,214
11	MUSICMATCH Top Hits	Contemp Hit Radio	194,248	90,813
12	AOL Love Songs	Love Songs	193,267	59,521
13	AOL Oldies	Oldies	161,378	56,391
14	AOL Pop Rock	Rock	151,544	50,487
15	AOL Top Jams	Miscellaneous	143,129	109,524
16	AOL Top Alternative	Alternative	137,423	77,494
17	Killer Oldies	Adult Alternative	134,847	26,082
18	AOL Super 70s	70s	132,623	40,560
19	MUSICMATCH Sft Hits	Soft Rock	131,448	31,821
20	Virgin Radio Classic Trk	Classic Rock	129,723	26,172

Source: Arbitron

1. TTSL (Total Time Spent Listening), sometimes referred to as Aggregate Tuning Hours (ATH), is the total number of hours tuned to a given station or network in the reported time period.
2. Cume 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.