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Distribution of U.S. radio formats audience in 2016, by age

Audience of various radio formats in the United States in 2016, by age

The data describes a distribution of various radio formats' audience by age in the U.S. in 2016. According to the data, 20.7% of 'all talk' format listeners were between 45 and 54 years of age in 2016.

AAA (Subset of Alternative) 7.5 19.7 20.7 23.5 21.2 7.5
Adult Contemporary 14.4 20.6 21.9 20.9 14.5 7.7
Adult Hits 10.6 16.9 23.9 28.2 15.7 4.7
Adult Standards 1.1 1.8 7.1 12.2 21.1 56.8
All News 4 7.3 13 22.2 25.9 27.8
All Sports 4.5 19 21.8 22.7 17.2 14.8
All Talk 2.7 12.2 18.5 20.7 24.5 21.5
Alternative 18 27 21.8 17.7 10.9 4.6
CHR/Top 40 26 28.7 23 14.4 5.7 2.2
Classic Hits 8.8 12.3 14.6 25.8 25.48 13
Classic Rock 11.2 16.5 19.3 28.3 19.2 5.5
Classical 5.6 11.8 12.9 17.5 20.8 31.5
Country 14.1 20.2 17.4 19.3 15.1 13.9
Easy Listening 2.4 5.1 9.5 10.1 17 56
Ethnic 9.1 9.7 26.2 20.2 24.2 10.8
Gospel 7.7 9.8 15.7 20.8 22.5 23.6
Hispanic (All Genres) 12.5 21.1 22.1 20.7 12.1 11.5
Hot AC (Subset of Adult Contemporary) 19.3 22.5 23.9 19.6 10.9 3.9
Jazz 5.8 10.3 11.3 19.8 24.1 28.8
Mexican/Tejano/Ranchera (subset of Hispanic) 16 26.5 20.9 20.3 8.7 7.6
News/Talk 3.2 10.7 15.2 20.8 23.2 26.9
Oldies 9.3 13.7 11.1 21.7 23.6 20.6
Public/Non-Commercial 6 16.7 18.4 19.5 19.5 19.9
Religion/Christian 9.6 14.4 21.7 21.8 18.5 14
Rhythmic 31.2 30.2 19.7 11.8 4.7 2.4
Rock 17.9 25.9 23.5 20.2 9.9 2.6
Soft AC/Lite Rock 8.1 17 21.3 21.2 18.8 13.6
Spanish AC (subset of Hispanic) 11 18.8 22.3 20.6 16.1 11.2
Tropical (subset of Hispanic) 14.1 20.4 21.3 22.5 10.8 11
Urban 24.6 25.3 17.1 15.2 11.6 6.2
Urban AC (Subset of Urban) 12.2 20.5 18 22.4 18 8.9
Urban Contemporary (Subset of Urban) 33.9 32.7 16.9 8.7 5.1 2.7
Variety/Other 8.9 16.4 20.4 18.1 19.6 16.5