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100,000 weekly downloads of BBC Radio
podcasts
Over 100,000 requests per week
for BBC Radio downloads and podcasts (11/08/05)
BBC Radio's download
and podcast trial is proving to be hugely popular, averaging over 100,000
download requests a week during July.
The first published figures show
Radio 4's In Our Time is the most popular programme included in the trial to
date, averaging 30,000 download requests a week since the trial began earlier
this year.
"These figures illustrate the public's appetite for radio on
demand," said Simon Nelson, Controller of BBC Radio and Music Interactive.
"We're delighted to offer new ways of listening that complement other,
increasingly popular technologies like DAB digital radio and digital
television."
The figures refer to the number of individual requests
made for programmes in the trial - as opposed to 'user agents' or 'listens' -
and there is currently no distinction between programmes downloaded and
podcast.
The BBC was the first British broadcaster to podcast when it
made In Our Time available last November, before announcing an extended trial
to include around 20 radio programmes in April this year.
July was also
a strong month for BBC Radio websites, with 7.1 million unique user agents
consuming more than 13.5 million hours of live and on demand radio (streamed
via the BBC Radio Player).
Leading the charge was digital-only station
Five Live Sports Extra, which smashed its online listening record - notching up
560,000 hours of live listening in the month, two thirds of which were live
coverage of the first Ashes Test Parent network.
Radio Five Live also
experienced record usage, attracting 1.2 million unique user agents, half of
whom visited during the week of the 7 July bombings.
The Proms website
was visited by a record 190,000 unique user agents last month - 30,000 more
than the previous record, set in July 2004.
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