BBC news and radio: consumption time by service 2015-2020

This statistic displays the time audiences spent weekly consuming BBC news, national and local radio services in the United Kingdom (UK) from fiscal year 2015/16 to 2019/20. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, the most time was spent listening to BBC Radio Cymru, at 11 hours and 37 minutes a week.

Time audiences spent consuming BBC news, national and local radio weekly in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015/16 to 2019/20, by service* (in hours and minutes)

Characteristic	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20
BBC Radio Cymru***	10.47	10.42	13.02	12.05	11.37
BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle***	10.47	11.19	10.18	10.38	9.51
BBC Local Radio***	8.51	8.36	8.52	8.36	8.13
BBC Radio Wales***	8.15	8.19	8.05	7.43	8.1
BBC Scotland***	6.55	7.18	6.25	6.49	6.22
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal	8.27	8.4	7.43	6.39	6.31
BBC News Channel	2.41	2.46	2.46	2.56	3.08
BBC Parliament	2.12	1.52	1.45	2.07	2.06

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Release date

September 2020

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2020*

Age group

4+ (TV) and 15+ (radio)

Supplementary notes

* The source defines reach as: "15 minutes for all channels and services on audiences aged 4+ (TV) and 15+ (radio)"
** BBC's fiscal year ends annually on March 31.
*** Data based on services' Total Survey Area (TSA).
Data for years prior to 2019/20 were published earlier by the source.

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