Streaming audience for American Forces Network, June 2025 – June 2026 (13 months). Source: Triton Digital Webcast Metrics — Audience Details, Stations, and CDN Usage reports, generated 6 Jul 2026.
Avg. unique listeners / month
223K
CUME, range 201K–245K
Tune-ins over 13 months
7.51M
Session starts, network-wide
Avg. time spent listening
41 min
per session, network-wide
Hours of audio streamed
5.18M
≈ 591 listener-years
Network footprint
23
active stations, 3 regions
A large audience, every single month
Unique monthly listeners held a tight band for eleven straight months. The step-down in May–Jun '26 (marked below) is AFN narrowing focus to its local/regional stations — the digital-only "global" feeds were retired May 1, 2026 because command information spots weren't reliably airing there.
Unique listeners per month (CUME)
Cannot be summed across months — each bar is that month's own deduplicated count.
Avg. time spent listening / session
Network-wide average session length, in minutes (ATSL).
Where the audience is
Streaming sessions by region, trailing 13 months, current local/regional station lineup only (retired global feeds excluded — see note above). Japan-based stations dominate volume; Europe and Korea offer smaller, more targeted regional buys.
Top markets by unique listeners
The 12 highest-reach active stations by CUME over the 13-month period (retired global feeds excluded — see the full roster, including discontinued stations, in the data table below). Values aren't additive across stations (a listener can appear in more than one) — use this to see concentration, not to sum a network total.
Station spotlight
Pick any active station to see its own numbers and 13-month trend — for when a sponsor wants to know exactly what buying a spot on one specific station gets them, not just the network blend.
Unique listeners (CUME)
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Avg. concurrent listeners (AAS)
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Tune-ins (Session Starts)
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Avg. session length
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Monthly sessions, 13-month trend
CDN Usage report, this station only.
Why this matters for a sponsor
223K / month
A large, stable audience. Unique listeners held between 201K and 245K every month for 13 straight months — a predictable reach advertisers can plan a flight against, not a one-time spike.
7.5M tune-ins
Millions of chances to be heard. That's the total count of listening sessions network-wide over the period — each one an opportunity for a :30 or :60 spot to run.
Hard-to-reach demo
A captive, niche audience. Listeners are active-duty service members, DoD civilians, and military families stationed in Japan, South Korea, and across Europe — a demographic with little access to local commercial radio, and one AFN reaches better than almost anyone else.
2–4.5 hrs/session
Listeners stay tuned. Several individual stations — concentrated in Europe (Souda Bay, Spangdahlem, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden) — average well over two hours of listening per session, per the Stations report. That's a stream left on, not a quick check-in.