BBC Radio stations ranked by listener reach in the United Kingdom Q1-Q2 2023

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Marie Charlotte Götting,

Aug 25, 2023

In the second quarter of 2023, the station BBC Radio 2 ranked first in terms of listener reach with roughly 13.46 million listeners tuning in on a weekly basis. BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 1 ranked second and third, each with over seven million listeners per week.

Leading BBC Radio stations in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1st and 2nd quarter 2023, by number of weekly listeners (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Q1 2023	Q2 2023
BBC Radio 2	14,458	13,456
BBC Radio 4 (including 4 Extra)	9,838	9,308
BBC Radio 4	9,399	8,971
BBC Radio 1	7,576	7,694
BBC Radio 5 live (inc. sports extra)	5,530	5,600
BBC Radio 5 live	5,104	5,045
BBC 6 Music	2,711	2,669
BBC Radio 3	1,931	1,703
BBC Radio 4 Extra	1,666	1,574
BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra	1,105	1,394
BBC World Service	1,085	1,078
BBC Radio London	564	607

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Release date

August 2023

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 and Q2 2023

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

The source provides the following commentary: "Reach is the number of people aged 15+ who tune to a radio station within at least 1 quarter-hour period over the course of a week. Respondents are instructed to fill in a quarter-hour only if they have listened to the station for at least 5 minutes within that quarter-hour. Between 00.00-06.00, listening is recorded in half-hour periods."

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