• by April 11, 2001

Arbitron Inc. yesterday announced that it measured more than 17 million hours of streaming media in the month of January according to the latest Arbitron Webcast Ratings(SM).

StreamAudio (www.streamaudio.com) joined the January Arbitron Webcast Ratings service with three channels ranked in the top 75, including WEEI-AM, ranked at number 43; WAAF-FM, ranked at number 54; and KMTT-FM, ranked at number 56.

"The Arbitron Webcast Ratings results for StreamAudio shows how effective streaming can be for broadcast radio stations and Internet audio," said Bob Case, CEO, StreamAudio. "StreamAudio enables radio stations to get online quickly and cost-effectively with unlimited streams, ad-insertions and 'now playing' features. Listeners are turning to the Internet for a high quality listening experience in the workplace and at home with far greater frequency."

For the second straight month, Beethoven.com (www.beethoven.com), streamed by iBEAM Broadcasting Corp., ranked number one with 727,400 aggregate tuning hours (ATH) - the sum total of all hours that listeners tune to a given channel. Continuing its popularity, WABC-AM (www.wabcradio.com), a New York-based news, talk and information radio station streamed by RealBroadcast Networks, ranked second with 310,700 ATH. Following closely in the third spot is MEDIAmazing (www.mediamazing.com) with 251,600 ATH.

"Our rankings continue to show that people want to listen to original or traditional content online when they don't have access to it on the radio," said Joan FitzGerald, director of marketing and research and development, Arbitron Webcast Services.

The top twenty streamers are as follows:

1. Beethoven.com www.beethoven.com 727,400 (Classical) (Beethoven.com) iBEAM Broadcasting Corp.

2. WABC-AM www.wabcradio.com 310,700 (News Talk (ABC Radio) Information) RealBroadcast Networks

3. MEDIAmazing www.mediamazing.com 251,600 (Variety) (MEDIAmazing) MEDIAmazing

4. KING-FM www.king.org 239,100 (Classical) (Classic Radio, Inc.) RealBroadcast Networks

5. Virgin Radio www.virginradio.co.uk 232,200 (Hot Adult (Scottish Media Group) Contemporary) Ginger Online

6. KNAC.com Pure Rock www.knac.com 226,400 (Album Oriented (Enigma Digital) Rock) Akamai Technologies, Inc.

7. KPLU-FM www.kplu.org 203,400 (Jazz) (Pacific Lutheran University) Activate Corp.

8. Groove Radio www.grooveradio.com 196,300 (Electronica) (Enigma Digital) Akamai Technologies, Inc.

9. CFNY-FM www.edge102.com 184,100 (New Rock) (Corus Entertainment) Activate Corp.

10 NetRadio - 80s Hits(a) www.netradio.com 178,200 (Contemporary (NetRadio.com) Hit Radio) Akamai Technologies, Inc.

11. KVI-AM www.570kvi.com 175,400 (News Talk (Fisher Broadcasting Co.) Information) Activate Corp., GlobalMedia

12. NetRadio - Smooth Jazz(a) www.netradio.com 168,700 (New AC (NAC)/ (NetRadio.com) Smooth Jazz) Akamai Technologies, Inc.

13. KPIG-FM www.kpig.com 145,800 (Album Adult (New Wave Broadcasting LP) Alternative) Activate Corp., GlobalMedia

14. CKRY-FM www.country105.com 141,800 (Country) (Corus Entertainment) Activate Corp.

15. KSFO-AM www.ksfo560.com/ 141,400 (News Talk (ABC Radio) Information) RealBroadcast Networks

16. WPLJ-FM www.wplj.com 135,100 (Hot Adult (ABC Radio) Contemporary) RealBroadcast Networks

17. KPLZ-FM www.star1015.com 134,000 (Contemporary (Fisher Broadcasting Co.) Hit Radio) Activate Corp., GlobalMedia

18. Radio Margaritaville www.radiomargaritaville.com 133,300 (Adult Contemporary)(Radio Margaritaville LLC) BroadcastAMERICA, RealBroadcast Networks

19. NetRadio - Vintage Rock(a) www.netradio.com (NetRadio.com) 129,600 (Classic Rock) Akamai Technologies, Inc.,

20. NetRadio - Cafe Jazz(a) www.netradio.com 121,100 (Jazz) (NetRadio.com) Akamai Technologies, Inc.