BBC radio websites gain record figures
Posted by
Caitlin Pike
on 23 February 2006 at 17:24
Tags: BBC, Journalism, New Media, Online, Radio
The BBC’s radio websites were visited by a record 8.2 million unique users in January, who consumed 17 million hours of live and on demand radio.Â
The month beat the previous record of 8.1 million users, set in November 2005, as BBC Radio 1 pulled in more than three million users and Radio 4 contributed 1.5 million.Â
But it was BBC Radio Five Live which showed the biggest increases, with the main site tipping the million mark, whilst offshoot sites 606 and Sportdaq showed huge growth.Â
In the last full month, with 20 programmes, the download and podcast trial generated a record 1.9 million MP3 downloads.Â
Radio 4’s In Our Time saw the biggest rise in demand - up 38,000 downloads on December - while the Today 8.10am interview took the top spot with more than 400,000 downloads.
Tags: BBC, Journalism, New Media, Online, Radio
