Category: Radio

Date: 28.02.2005
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Record unique users and on-demand listening in January

Digital-only networks driving online listening

Radio 3 and Radio 4 break user records

Nearly seven million unique users visited the BBC Radio websites in January, a year-on-year increase of 70 per cent and the highest ever for BBC Radio.

They listened to a record 4.2 million hours of radio on-demand, with digital-only services spearheading the increase: 1Xtra, 6 Music, Asian Network and BBC 7 all reported record on-demand listening, totalling 1.2 million hours.

Amongst the digital-only networks:

6 Music saw record online listening, with a combined live and on-demand total topping half a million hours

Asian Network's Top 40 Soundtracks vote pushed weekly unique users of the network's site over 60,000 for the first time in early January

1Xtra gave another impressive performance with more than 500,000 hours of online listening and 70,000 on-demand requests for the M1X Show

The rise of BBC 7 continues unabated with monthly unique users passing 300,000 for the first time - double last January's total.

Radio 3 surpassed its previous unique user record by 90,000 users in January thanks in no small part to its Awards for World Music 2005 minisite which generated 673,000 page impressions and attracted over 10,000 votes for its Audience Award.

Meanwhile, Radio 4 surpassed its October unique user record and is showing sustained growth across all genres.

(Technical problems with audio servers resulted in significantly lower live listening hours during December and January than we would otherwise expect. These problems have now been corrected).

 

Top 30 on-demand programmes - January 2005

	Programme	Station	Monthly listens
1	The Archers	Radio 4	456,975
2	Chris Moyles	Radio 1	311,625
3	I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue	Radio 4	252,618
4	Essential Mix	Radio 1	187,029
5	The Essential Selection	Radio 1	178,805
6	Dance Anthems	Radio 1	153,493
7	The Official Chart Show	Radio 1	143,186
8	The Afternoon Play	Radio 4	127,133
9	Judge Jules	Radio 1	117,836
10	I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue	BBC 7	109,762
11	Jonathan Ross	Radio 2	100,418
12	Terry Wogan	Radio 2	96,482
13	Gilles Peterson	Radio 1	91,957
14	Today	Radio 4	89,017
15	Blue Room	Radio 1	88,540
16	Lamacq Live	Radio 1	83,912
17	The News Quiz	Radio 4	71,497
18	The M1X Show	1Xtra	70,464
19	Book of the Week	Radio 4	64,258
20	Annie Mac	Radio 1	61,730
21	The Radio 1 Rap Show	Radio 1	61,478
22	In Our Time	Radio 4	55,666
23	Sounds of the 60s	Radio 2	55,553
24	The Consultants	Radio 4	55,015
25	Fighting Talk	Five Live	54,901
26	Annie Nightingale	Radio 1	53,445
27	Book at Bedtime	Radio 4	52,397
28	Mark Radcliffe	Radio 2	49,314
29	Nebulous	Radio 4	44,905
30	6-0-6	Five Live	44,054

Total - All Networks

	All BBC Radio
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	4,104,792	5,697,365	6,971,280
Page Impressions	102,823,286	153,230,109	175,640,011
On-demand listening requests	5,790,529	6,869,943	7,135,920
On-demand listening hours	2,347,803	3,990,014	4,181,015
Live listening hours	5,316,301	3,889,482	5,085,019

Total - By Network

	Radio 1
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	1,537,038	2,267,288	2,474,502
Page Impressions	26,175,481	43,933,418	48,862,715
On-demand listening requests	1,713,544	1,899,086	1,920,172
On-demand listening hours	829,120	1,275,706	1,217,407
Live listening hours	1,378,164	778,595	1,147,216

	Radio 2
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	644,415	870,368	1,015,522
Page Impressions	12,858,514	18,775,421	18,388,475
On-demand listening requests	939,634	1,156,620	1,122,592
On-demand listening hours	368,038	603,850	605,675
Live listening hours	1,176,450	755,329	1,013,223

	Radio 3
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	333,127	377,483	464,868
Page Impressions	4,704,332	5,265,777	6,300,641
On-demand listening requests	459,792	423,954	402,781
On-demand listening hours	176,015	224,079	217,889
Live listening hours	293,318	219,474	265,515

	Radio 4
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	810,232	1,109,724	1,255,767
Page Impressions	16,165,035	25,371,133	27,562,687
On-demand listening requests	1,291,820	1,614,384	1,735,114
On-demand listening hours	590,555	742,180	840,097
Live listening hours	953,029	665,282	856,150

	Radio Five Live
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	515,613	690,976	784,431
Page Impressions	21,330,688	32,877,133	38,811,337
On-demand listening requests	197,718	313,115	315,153
On-demand listening hours	56,350	91,207	102,357
Live listening hours	514,376	550,714	716,772

	1Xtra
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	307,739	384,678	422,857
Page Impressions	5,949,032	5,876,368	6,297,625
On-demand listening requests	610,436	507,653	502,584
On-demand listening hours	193,389	307,136	323,719
Live listening hours	185,440	195,521	199,696

	6 Music
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	303,458	282,850	278,121
Page Impressions	3,305,253	3,356,560	3,472,671
On-demand listening requests	199,703	228,903	238,288
On-demand listening hours	76,456	133,212	144,940
Live listening hours	285,311	295,639	366,983

	Asian Network
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	93,359	142,437	161,111
Page Impressions	1,725,035	1,961,682	2,064,926
On-demand listening requests	107,389	134,846	138,181
On-demand listening hours	40,251	61,745	68,956
Live listening hours	93,258	99,608	110,177

	BBC 7
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	149,507	292,215	306,407
Page Impressions	2,721,607	5,009,856	5,688,985
On-demand listening requests	41,152	269,310	437,411
On-demand listening hours	17,629	550,899	659,975
Live listening hours	334,653	237,079	269,548

	Five Live Sports Extra
	Jan-04	Dec-04	Jan-05
Unique Users	96,436	131,150	141,647
Page Impressions	389,300	563,678	710,461
On-demand listening requests	N/A	N/A	N/A
On-demand listening hours	N/A	N/A	N/A
Live listening hours	20,767	28,433	57,262

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