Triton: Big Streaming Gains For Broadcasters In September.

September brought big jumps in online listening for several radio companies as the end of summer vacations and a return to normal work week schedules got listeners back into their streaming groove. Beasley and Entercom experienced double digit month-over month increases while iHeartRadio, NPR and ESPN saw mid-single digit gains.

In the U.S. primetime Mon.-Fri, 6am-8pm daypart, iHeartRadio remained the top broadcast radio streamer, increasing from 403,125 Average Active Sessions in August to 419,636 in September, a gain of 4%. NPR Member Stations stayed in second place among broadcasters, rising 6% from 84,566 AAS in August to 89,225 in September. Next was Entercom’s Radio.com with an 11% increase, from 74,355 in August to 82,641 in September.

Here are the remainder of broadcast radio’s top 10 and their August-September AAS comparisons: Cumulus Streaming Network (66,619-68,523, up 3%)), Beasley Broadcasting (24,995-27,985, a 12% gain), Univision (26,641-25,389, down 5%), Hubbard Broadcasting (19,460-20,308, up 4%), EMF (19,720-20,020, up 2%) and ESPN Radio (15,540-16,698, up 7%).

Among streaming pureplays across the same daypart, Pandora remained out front with 2.2 million Average Active Sessions in September, down from 2.3 million in August. Spotify is no longer measured by Triton.

Among U.S. sales networks during the primetime Mon.-Fri, 6am-8pm daypart, iHeartMedia Network continued at No. 1 with 1,170,269 AAS, up from 1,111,601 in August.