Category: Radio; Radio 1; Radio 4
Date: 22.01.2006
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Chris Moyles' weekly podcast was downloaded nearly half a million times in December, new figures reveal.
BBC Radio 1's Best of Moyles mp3 - a 20-minute broadcast featuring speech highlights from the week - was downloaded 446,809 times during the month, boosted by daily podcasts when the show was in New York.
Moyles - the self-styled Saviour of Radio 1 - took the top spot in the first published chart of BBC radio downloads, with all programmes in trial totalling nearly two million downloads in December.
Chris said: "I'm very pleased we're number one and that people are making an effort to listen to the show even if they can't be bothered to get up early to hear us."
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Radio 4 has a strong presence in the chart, with the Today programme's daily 8.10am interview receiving 413,492 downloads in the month, while From Our Own Correspondent and In Our Time - the first show to be podcast by a British broadcaster - both performed well.
Simon Nelson, Controller of BBC Radio & Music Interactive, said: "It's fantastic to see how the demand for radio downloads has grown since we first offered them in 2004. These figures underline the enduring relevance of radio in the digital world."
Twenty programmes were made available in BBC Radio's download and podcast trial last May.
At the end of the 2005 it was announced that the trial would be extended into this year and would include more programmes, in order to gain a better understanding of listeners' preferences.
For more on the trial visit bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial.
Download and Podcast Trial figures - December 2005
1 Best of Moyles (Radio 1) 446,809
2 Today 8.10 Interview (Radio 4) 413,492
3 Documentary Archive (World Service) 211,593
4 From Our Own Correspondent (Radio 4) 179,696
5 In Our Time (Radio 4) 145,588
6 Mark Kermode's Film Reviews (Five Live) 99,947
7 Chris Evans - The Best Bits (Radio 2) 70,355
8 Go Digital (World Service) 59,957
9 Fighting Talk (Five Live) 41,287
10 Sportsweek (Five Live) 38,827
11 Talking 6 Music (6 Music) 17,527
12 File on 4 (Radio 4) 13,347
13 Big Toe Clippings (BBC 7) 11,729
14 Rooze Haftom (Persian) 6,489
15 TX UnLtd (1Xtra) 4,564
16 Film Café (Asian Network) 4,335
17 The Weekender (Radio Northampton) 3,194
18 Letter to Gaelic Learners (Radio nan Gaidheal) 2,796
19 In Business (Radio 4) Off-air
20 The Rumour Mill (Five Live) Off-air
Notes to Editors
All programmes are usually weekly, apart from Today (six per week), From Our Own Correspondent (occasionally twice per week) and the Documentary Archive (variable).
Figures for the Top 30 on-demand programmes for December 2005
are available
in PDF
format on the right hand side of this page.
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