WKSU-FM Pushes Way Into Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings

WKSU-FM, the Kent State University broadcast service featuring NPR News and classical music, ranked as the number 15 Internet Broadcaster with 72,501 hours of Total Time Spent Listening (TTSL) for the week of January 12, according to Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings. TTSL is the sum total of hours listeners tune to a given station or network, respectively.

AOL Radio@Network and LAUNCH were the top-ranked commercial Internet Broadcasters with 6,431,407 and 3,425,010 hours of Total Time Spent Listening.

MUSICMATCH was the top-ranked non-commercial Internet Broadcaster with 2,275,786 hours of TTSL.

MUSICMATCH Artist Match was the top non-commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 838,914 hours of TTSL. Virgin Radio was ranked as the highest commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 321,342 hours of TTSL.

Internet Broadcasters and Sales Networks Weekly Top 15 (Jan 12 – Jan 18)

Rank Company Type TTSL CUME
1 AOL Radio@Network commercial 6,431,407 1,597,444 [
2 LAUNCH commercial 3,425,010 875,529 [
3 MUSICMATCH non-commercial 2,275,786 534,715 [
4 The Adsertion Network sales network 827,282 127,207 [
5 Virgin Radio commercial 548,202 95,349 [
6 ABC Radio Network commercial 398,627 76,046 [
7 Educational Media Foundation non-commercial 385,524 48,943 [
8 AccuRadio commercial 317,180 106,586 [
9 KillerOldies.com commercial 163,996 24,363 [
10 WXPN-FM non-commercial 97,986 13,105 [
11 KPLU non-commercial 97,239 13,168 [
12 Beethoven commercial 96,736 14,466 [
13 Emap commercial 83,887 30,337 [
14 WBUR non-commercial 77,281 22,717 [
15 WKSU-FM non-commercial 72,501 19,188 [

- from an Arbitron Press Release