For December, J1 reports a slight decline in total listening hours (TLH).  Much of this can be attributed to the expected reduction in listening as a result of the Christmas and New Years holidays.

During this period, the Japan/Asia at-work segment had a strong showing over their American at-work counterparts, especially near the end of the year.

J1 thanks you for listening in 2009 and we are looking forward to 2010.

Total Listening Hours
Overall TLH: December 10,479 / November 10,916
VIP TLH: December 804 / November 837
Stream Launches:  December 14,829 / November 18.227
Average Listening Time (mins): December 42 / November 36
Average Simultaneous Listeners: December 14.08 / November 15.16

J1 Worldwide listening (% is share of world market)
TLH based on 12/4~1/3
USA - 3,778 - 36% (November 4,367 - 39%)
JAPAN - 2,547 - 24% (November 2,907 - 26%)
Canada 779
Singapore 465
United Kingdom 187
France 179
PR China 148
Lithuania 141
Mexico 141
Malaysia 107
(19) Philippines 48
(26) Thailand 23
(36) Hong Kong 8
(38) PR Korea 6

J1 USA Metro Markets (% is share of USA market)
TLH based on 12/4~1/3
Los Angeles 453 - 12%
Bay Area 361 - 9.5%
NYC area 334 - 8.8%
Hartford/New Haven - 264
Honolulu 170 - 4.5%
Baltimore 168
Seattle/Tacoma - 160 - 4.2%
Boston 141
Philadelphia 132
(15) Austin 61

Website statistics
Page loads: December 3185 / November 3239
Unique visitors: December 1638 / November 1598
First time visitors: December 1077 / November 1111

Programming ratings
For the first time, we will also rank the weekly and block programming aired by J1 in the month.  Shows are ranked by Average Simultaneous Listeners (ASL) during the entire length of the show.

12/26/2009    Countdown #447 first run    18.85
12/19/2009    Countdown #446 first run    17.63
12/19/2009    Kohaku Preview first run    17.35
12/12/2009    Countdown #445 first run    16.18
12/5/2009    Countdown #444 first run    15.80
12/24/2009    X’mas 2009 (8AM-4PM JST X’mas day)    15.69
1/2/2010    Countdown #448 first run    14.15
12/6/2009    Countdown #444 second run    13.18
12/31/2009    Top 100 Countdown first run (for Midnight Japan)    13.01
12/31/2009    Kohaku Preview third run    11.98
12/13/2009    Countdown #445 second run    11.38
1/1/2010    Top 100 Countdown third run    10.89
1/3/2010    Countdown #448 second run    10.48
12/20/2009    Countdown #446 second run    9.50
12/31/2009    Night of Red and White first run (NYE against Kohaku)    9.11
1/3/2010    Night of Red and White third run (special encore)    8.27
12/27/2009    Countdown #447 second run    7.83
12/31/2009    Night of Red and White second run (NYE for USA))    5.32
12/20/2009    Kohaku Preview second run    5.15
12/25/2009    X’mas 2009 (8AM-4PM PST X’mas day)    5.10
1/1/2010    Top 100 Countdown second run (Midnight USA)    4.02