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أغر؟´«أ½'s global news audiences reach record 233m


The أغر؟´«أ½'s combined international news services attracted a record global weekly audience of more than 233 million during 2006/7, according to independent surveys.

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The global audience figure for the combined services of أغر؟´«أ½ World Service radio, أغر؟´«أ½ World television and the أغر؟´«أ½'s international online news service bbcnews.com is up 23 million from 210 million last year.

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Many people used more than one service.

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أغر؟´«أ½ World Service's weekly radio audience estimate is a record 183 million, up 20 million on last year.

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أغر؟´«أ½ World – the commercially-funded international English language news and information television channel – now has estimated record audiences of 76 million viewers a week, up from 65 million in 2005/6.

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The أغر؟´«أ½'s international-facing online news sites attracted a record 763 million page impressions in March 2007, up from 546 million in March 2006. There were a record 38.5 million unique online users across the globe during March 2007, up from 32.8 million a year ago.

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أغر؟´«أ½ Global News Director Richard Sambrook said: "This is a strong and welcome indication that the أغر؟´«أ½'s news services are strengthening their impact with audiences around the globe in the highly competitive multimedia age.

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"People around the world are increasingly turning to the أغر؟´«أ½ when they need quality news and information that is independent and trusted."

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There were large أغر؟´«أ½ radio audience increases in Bangladesh – up 8.3 million.

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Increased survey coverage added 7.5 million to the estimate in Democratic Republic of Congo and 7.0 million in Afghanistan.

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Weekly audiences in radio markets in India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Rwanda all grew by a million or more during the year.

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أغر؟´«أ½ World saw substantial growth in audiences in Africa, Canada, Egypt, India, Pakistan and the USA.

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Notes to Editors

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أغر؟´«أ½ World Service broadcasts in 33 languages including English. The other languages are: Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Caribbean-English, Cantonese, French for Africa, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese for Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.

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In the UK, World Service in English is available on 648 MW in south eastern England. In addition, overnight on أغر؟´«أ½ Radio 4, أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Wales and أغر؟´«أ½ Radioi Ulster and via digital radio, digital satellite and the internet. The English Network can be heard on the أغر؟´«أ½'s digital multiplex in the UK, Freeview digital channel 80 or in Europe on the Astra satellite, channel 865.

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Outside the UK, أغر؟´«أ½ World Service is available on short wave; on FM in 152 capital cities; and selected programmes are carried on almost 2,000 FM and MW radio stations around the world.

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أغر؟´«أ½ World television is the أغر؟´«أ½'s commercially-funded global 24-hour news and information channel. أغر؟´«أ½ World is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, and reaches more than 280 million households (147 million 24-hour homes) and more than 1.3 million hotel rooms. It is also available on 50 cruise ships, 37 airlines and 29 mobile phone platforms.

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The new World Service global audience estimate is derived from a comprehensive programme of independent audience research over a four year cycle. This year's figure incorporates new data from 24 countries - some 69 per cent of this year's audience (some 65 per cent of last year's audience).

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The أغر؟´«أ½ World audience figure is compiled from multiple surveys (syndicated, omnibus and specifically commissioned) across 100 countries.

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The surveys are carried out by independent market research groups and comply with international standards of audience research.

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Date: 21.05.2007
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