• by Jack Loechner , Staff Writer @mp_research, February 13, 2003

Jazz Jumps

According to Arbitron's MeasureCast Ratings two jazz stations were ranked within the top ten individual Internet radio stations ratings for the week of January 27. RADIOIO Eclectic was the top ranked individual Internet radio station with 324,323 hours of listening. MUSICMATCH Artist Match was ranked number two with 305,374 hours and Virgin Radio was ranked number three with 286,312 hours of TTSL.

MUSICMATCH topped the webcast network with 1,285,584 hours of TTSL. StreamAudio was ranked number two with 1,016,610 hours of TTSL. Clear Channel Worldwide was ranked number three with 641,913 hours of TTSL

Demographic Highlights for the Week of Jan. 27 – Feb. 2

• The peak listening day was Thursday, January 30 with 23 percent of the week’s online listening.
• 76 percent of weekly online listening took place between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific time.
• 15 percent of the week’s total listening took place during the weekend.
• 85 percent of the measured listeners were between the ages of 18 and 54.
• 70 percent of listeners were men; 30 percent were women.
• In the U.S., 32 percent of listeners resided in the South; 30 percent in the West; 18 percent in the Northeast; and 20 percent in the Midwest.

Top 10 Webcast Networks (Jan. 27 – Feb. 2)

RANK	Company	TTSL	CUME persons
1	MUSICMATCH	1,285,584	378,561
2	StreamAudio	1,016,610	158,428
3	Clear Channel Worldwide	641,913	135,143
4	Warp Radio	633,008	105,447
5	Moontaxi	544,777	91,503
6	StreamGuys	491,552	125,759
7	Virgin Radio	473,161	77,437
8	SurferNETWORK	420,185	44,514
9	Radio Free Virgin	371,591	44,621
10	Radioio.com	324,323	62,198

Weekly Top 10 Jan. 27 – Feb. 2

Rank	Station		Format	TTSL (in hours)	Cume Persons
1	RADIOIO Eclectic	(Internet-only)	Adult Alternative	324,323	62,198
2	MUSICMATCH Artist Match	(Internet-only)	Miscellaneous	305,374	131,195
3	Virgin Radio AM & FM	(London)	Hot Adult Contemp	286,312	48,780
4	WQXR-FM	(New York)	Classical	237,739	35,763
5	JazzFM	(London)	Jazz	210,141	31,434
6	K-LOVE Radio	(Sacramento)	Contemporary Chris.	182,671	28,595
7	MUSICMATCH Top Hits	(Internet-only)	CHR / Top 40	161,839	88,489
8	Beethoven.com	(Internet-only)	Classical	154,706	25,171
9	KPLU-FM/	(Tacoma)	Jazz	151,189	23,390
10	KING-FM/98.1	(Seattle)	Classical	107,175	15,229

Notes: 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. 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.