Internet radio and streaming services are not.
Also broadcast on WNYC radio and streamed live on wnyc.org and symphonyspace.org.org
The event will also be shown in movie theaters, broadcast on radio and streamed online.
The concert will also be carried live on Sirius Satellite Radio and streamed at the Met's Web site.
Internet radio and streaming music were still in their nascent stages, and Dublab had to develop custom software and programs to even be heard.
"Although AM/FM radio remains America's favorite music-listening choice, the basket of Internet radio and streaming services that are available today have, on the whole, replaced CDs for second place," Russ Crupnick, an NPD analyst, said in a statement.
Over the last decade, as traditional radio companies have faced new forms of competition from satellite radio and streaming services like Pandora, the Web has become an important vehicle for the broadcasters to expand their reach.
The debate, at 7 p.m., will be on WNBC-TV and WOR-AM (710) radio, and streamed live at the Web sites of WNBC-TV and The Wall Street Journal.
Most prognosticators did not expect Cardi B to challenge Taylor Swift, whose comeback single, "Look What You Made Me Do," a limp, candied missive, had been engineered to dominate both radio and streaming.
They tend to want a state-of-the-art home music system that lets them listen to music files on their PC, with online radio and streaming services like Rhapsody, Pandora and Spotify, the British music service that premiered last week in the United States.
