MeasureCast today reported that Clear Channel Worldwide's 197 streaming AM and FM stations delivered 6,941,043 hours of entertainment, making it the leading
Internet radio network measured by MeasureCast (based on the total time spent listening (TTSL), or total number of hours streamed).
Together, Clear Channel stations streamed 2,068,013 more hours
of radio programming in April than they did in March. Radio Free Virgin moved up a notch into second place by streaming 3,263,211 hours - 870,131 more hours than it streamed in March.
Virgin
Radio: Top Web Radio Station Again
For the second month in a row, Virgin Radio won the top spot in the monthly MeasureCast Top 50T Internet radio stations ranking. The London-based webcaster
streamed 1,269,079 hours of programming to 158,858 people. JazzFM came in second place based on the total number of hours streamed, but enjoyed the largest audience of any Web radio station measured
by MeasureCast, delivering its entertainment to 224,451 listeners. The New York Times' WQXR-FM took third place by streaming 738,208 hours to 93,373 people. In April, MeasureCast measured 1,351
Internet radio stations - 63 fewer stations than it measured in March. These on-line broadcasters streamed a combined total of 34,104,851 hours of music, news, and talk programming (up from 27,783,465
hours streamed in March) to some 3,937,884 people worldwide (up from 3,359,283 people in March).
Peak Web Radio Listening Day Comes Before "Day of Silence"
The peak listening day was
Tuesday, April 30, with 4% of all listening taking place on this day (total of 1,491,027 hours streamed). This was the day before many online radio stations protested a recently proposed royalty rate
by going silent, or by streaming a 12-hour talk show about the proposed rates. The day of least listening was Sunday, April 21, with only 1% of the month's listening. 10% of total Internet radio
listening took place on weekends (down 3% from March).
The majority of people listening to stations measured by MeasureCast in January resided in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada,
Japan, and Mexico. In the U.S., 32% of listeners were in the South, and 29% were in the West. 21% lived in the Northeast, and 18% in the Midwest. 57% of listeners were under 35 years of age, 29% were
younger than 25, and 7% were over 55. The largest single age group listening to Internet radio was 25-34 year-olds (28%). 76% of all Internet radio listening occurred between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Pacific. 31% of Internet radio listeners were women.