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According to the recent Arbitron 2009 Radio Today report, News/Talk/Information is still America’s number 1 format with a share of 12.6% of listeners over the age of 12. More people are listening to News/Talk radio via streaming, whether it is from their computer or wireless device. And speaking of news/talk/information; streaming already accounts for 8-10%…

Consider these online growth facts and statistics... Online listener segment continues to grow, and aggregate listening hours grew by a whopping 37.6% to 6.67 billion hours in 2008 (AccuStream iMedia Research). Extending market reach and name branding to the workplace and home PCPotential listeners spend a lot more time in their office or workplace than…

ESPNRadio.com is the most listened-to online stream of any terrestrial station in the world. They reach more than 420,000 unique listeners per month and pull in a total of 1.9 million sessions per month, an increase of 25 percent compared to last year. ESPNRadio.com’s audio stream averages about 2.5 hours per session. Even their website…

Tonight at 5:00PM Eastern, President Obama will be joining faith leaders from across the country for a nationwide call to action on health care. The show, "40 Minutes for Health Reform," can be heard here. President Obama, and others, will be communicating live through streaming audio. BlogTalkRadio is the social radio network that allows users…

http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/ There are plenty of Internet radio applications for web-connected mobile phones that let you tune in to your favorite webcasts on the go, but what about other devices that lack cellular connections? A new series of portable routers take an Internet connection from cellular providers like Sprint and make it available on a Wi-Fi…

If you haven’t heard of BlogTalkRadio, chances are, you soon will. BlogTalkRadio is a provider of thousands of internet talk radio shows and has been becoming quite popular. Their live and archived shows are produced by anyone that wants to be an internet radio host. You don’t need your own radio station, website, or studio.…

Do you know what the daily online listener peak hours are vs. traditional morning/afternoon drive? Did you realize that online listeners have a much higher ‘dwell time’? That’s right. The online listener spends far more time listening than the traditional listener, as we spend much more time at the workplace than we do in the…

The prices that you can charge for online, Internet-only replacement ads and banners for your players is going to vary widely, depending on the reach and scope of your market coverage and terrestrial spot pricing. This overview is intended to provide you some pricing examples and ideas and insights that you can use in your…

6/17/2009 - PRESS RELEASE Securenet Systems Announces New Skins for Streaming Radio Players Contact: Diego Baeza Director of New Business Development Securenet Systems 356 SW 12th Avenue Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 (866) 568-9402 Deerfield Beach – June 26, 2009 - Securenet Systems, Inc., http://www.securenetsystems.net/ a streaming services company in South Florida, continues to roll out…

By Adam Satariano at Bloomberg June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Global music sales, squeezed by Internet piracy and tumbling demand for compact discs, will fall at a 2.5 percent annual rate over the next five years as non- physical formats overtake CDs, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said. Spending on recorded music will drop 12 percent to $26.1 billion…

Here is Aribtron's list of the top 50 radio markets. It's not surprising that New York has the largest radio market. Rank Type DST Qual Type Market Name Metro 12+ Population 1 PPM BH S/PPM New York 15,393,700 2 PPM BH S/PPM Los Angeles 10,877,600 3 PPM BH S/PPM Chicago 7,813,900 4 PPM BH S/PPM…

Clear Channel, the largest radio group owning over a thousand AM/FM stations, reported revenue of $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2009...compared to $1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2008. That’s about a 23% decrease in one year. According CC Media Holdings CEO, Mark Mays, "Our companies performed well on a relative basis…

Last week we posted some interesting facts and figures from The Infinite Dial 2009 report, but after reviewing Arbitron's whole study, here are some more statistics. An Estimated 69 Million Americans Listened to Online Radio in the Last Month Weekly Online Radio Audience Up by Nearly One-Third in Last Year Online Radio Reaches One in…

The worldwide digital radio market has been growing, as most of you know. But most of you probably don’t know which markets are growing at the fastest rates. Between 2007 and 2008 digital radio experienced growth of 85%, as reported by http://www.in-stat.com/, which is a tremendous increase in just one year. Asia/Pacific was the main…

Last week Arbitron Inc. and Edison Research released their latest study “The Infinite Dial 2009.” This study showed that the usage rate of digital audio platforms, suck as online radio, iPods, podcasting, etc., has significantly increased since 2008. Interestingly enough, weekly online radio audience has grown to roughly 42 million Americans, up from 33 million…

According to the latest reports, online revenue nearly quadrupled last year, growing from $67 million to $247 million. It doesn’t stop there - on average, online revenue is expected to increase an average of $132 million through 2013. Most experts agree that the increasing popularity of online radio - driven by expanding wifi and mobile…

Securenet Systems has just finished implementing a brand new feature for station managers which allow station managers to earn commission on music purchased from Amazon.com. There is now a “Buy Now” Amazon button on all players running DCS which automatically updates to the song currently playing. Clicking on the button takes the listener directly to…