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WUNC Ranked One Of Top Five Public Radio Stations

WUNC was ranked the number 5 public radio station in the country.
Laura Candler

A new report by The Media Audit names WUNC one of the top five public radio stations in the country. The report used cume ratings – the estimated number of people who have listened to the station during a given period – to determine stations’ popularity. WUNC was ranked number five, with nearly 17 percent of adults in the market listening to the station in the past seven days at the time of the report.

The report also found that public radio has the third-largest reach of all radio formats, with an estimated 22.5 million listeners in the country. Sixty-four percent of those listeners also tuned in to their public radio station more than any other channel.

According to the report, the top five public radio stations are:

  1. WUOM/Ann Arbor: 25.1% of adults 18 and over listened in the past seven days
  2. KQED/San Francisco: 18.8%
  3. KNOW/Minneapolis: 17.7%
  4. WMEA/Portland, Maine: 17.3%
  5. WUNC/Raleigh-Durham: 16.9%

The Media Audit’s report also looked at demographics of public radio listeners, finding that many are likely to be wealthy consumers with active lifestyles. The report determined that 67 percent of those who listened to public radio in the past week are likely to have a household income of at least $150,000, and 79 percent are heavy consumers of domestic air travel.

Laura moved from Chattanooga to Chapel Hill in 2013 to join WUNC as a web producer. She graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in the spring of 2012 and has created radio and multimedia stories for a variety of outlets, including Marketplace, Prairie Public, and Maine Public Broadcasting. When she's not out hunting stories, you can usually find her playing the fiddle.
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