Net Radio News Traffic Rises During Attacks

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In a new report released Tuesday, Portland, Ore.-based MeasureCast, an Internet radio measurement service, revealed substantial increases in Web listenership for online AM News/Talk station sites following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11. The surges in traffic reached, in at least one case, almost 9000 percent.

Some examples of the jump in Net news radio listening include KSCO-AM 1080 in Santa Cruz, Calif., which experienced a 669 percent increase in the number of hours streamed last Tuesday compared to the same day a week earlier.

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