Virgin Radio is the top commercial Internet broadcast station

NEW YORK (Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings) - Virgin Radio was ranked the number one commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 269,166 hours of Total Time Spent Listening (TTSL) for the week of July 21, according to Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings.

Musicmatch Artist Match was the top non-commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 544,310 TTSL for the week. Total Time Spent Listening is the sum total of hours tuned by listeners to a given station or network.

Radio@AOL Network and LAUNCH were the top ranked commercial Internet broadcasters with 5,659,970 and 2,692,144 hours of TTSL respectively. Musicmatch was the top ranked non-commercial Internet Broadcaster with 1,664,531 hours of TTSL. The Adsertion Network was the top sales network with 1,162,165 hours of TTSL

Demographic Highlights for the Week of July 21� July 27
* The peak listening days were Wednesday, July 23 and Thursday, July 24, with 18 percent of the week's online listening each day.
* 77 percent of weekly online listening took place between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific time.
* 13 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; 31 percent in the West; 19 percent in the Northeast; and 18 percent in the Midwest.