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yourLDSradio.com Ranked Number Two in Nation Among Live365-Hosted Online Inspirational Radio Stations; Worldwide Listening Audience in 63 Foreign Countries; More Than 35,000 Streams a Month

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 09:17 CDT

SALT LAKE CITY, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Six months after being launched, yourLDSradio.com is the number two ranked online inspirational radio station among thousands of stations hosted by the Live365 internet hosting service, and has established a worldwide audience in 63 foreign countries with more than 35,000 monthly streams.* Concurrent with the release of these statistics, yourLDSradio.com announced the creation of a sister station LDS Classics.

Gaylen Rust, president of a new and emerging LDS-targeted music empire that includes yourLDSradio.com and LDS Classics, said the success of yourLDSradio.com "has exceeded all our expectations. We're getting a consistent, true following."

LDS Classics went live May 23 and can be accessed through yourLDSradio.com. Program director, Sam Payne said LDS Classics was created by popular demand for radio listeners who wanted to hear LDS songs from "the dawn of the LDS pop music era." These songs include tunes from standards such as the Saturday's Warrior soundtrack, the filmstrip Families are Forever, Michael McLean's You're Not Alone or Janice Kapp Perry's I'll Walk By Faith.

Live365 is an international radio network that provides comprehensive statistics about the online radio industry. It evaluates and monitors more than 260 music genres, produced by 5,000 broadcasters in over 150 countries.

Since its November launch, yourLDSradio.com has seen steady growth in streams - which is the number of times the broadcast was launched - total and average listening hours, VIP listening hours, station pages and station presets. Overall, yourLDSradio.com ranks 118 among more than 6,000 online radio stations of all genres.

Payne said the international appeal of www.yourLDSradio.com "is a tribute to LDS audiences, who are, it seems, looking all over the world for this kind of thing. We've discovered there's a hunger among far-flung Latter-day Saints to connect with the music of their culture."

Payne added that the station has received positive email messages from listeners in places such as Afghanistan, the Philippines, Scandinavia and India including one from an Air Force Master Sergeant stationed in Afghanistan. In the email he said, "after hearing some of the great messages, I quickly bookmarked you on my laptop. Now, I find myself on my sixth tour of duty in Afghanistan listening to this wonderful music."

*Statistics provided by Live365.

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Source: PR Newswire

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