BBC One had the greatest weekly reach among the BBC's television services in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. All channels in the ranking experienced a decline in audience reach over the past years. The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday and enters a period of uncertainty The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the public broadcasting service of the United Kingdom and the oldest broadcasting organization worldwide. It was established in London on October 18, 1922, but after an entire century on air, the BBC now enters an uncertain future in terms of funding. Around 70 percent of the BBC's annual income is generated via license fees, but as the government announced the termination of this tax by 2027, the BBC will have to explore new avenues to stay afloat. So what will the future hold for the BBC and its programming now that consumers will no longer be required to pay the annual fee? Sources speculate that funding alternatives could include a subscription service, part-privatization, or direct government funding. The portfolio goes with the (digital) flow The BBC operates several television channels in the UK and worldwide, including the news-only channel BBC News and the politics-centered BBC Parliament. As of 2024, BBC One remained the company's flagship service, and data showed that the lion's share of the BBC's total television programming spending was allocated towards BBC One content that year. In addition to offering cross-genre television and radio broadcasts, the corporation keeps expanding its range of online services to resonate with audiences in the UK and abroad. The BBC runs a designated news platform alongside the on-demand video streaming platform BBC iPlayer.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News, featuring 18,900,000 subscribers and 6,471,977,915 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Entertainment category and is based in GB. Track 27,669 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

According to the results of a nationally representative survey held in the United Kingdom in October 2024, BBC News had an audience of 14.2 million people aged 15 years and above that month. Apple News ranked a close second with 14 million users. With the exception of Sky News, MoneySavingExpert, and The Guardian, all other news apps in the ranking had an audience of under two million, including Google News and Mail Online.

RealTimeData Monthly Collection - BBC News

This datasets contains all news articles from BBC News that were created every months from 2017 to current. To access articles in a specific month, simple run the following: ds = datasets.load_dataset('RealTimeData/bbc_news_alltime', '2020-02')

This will give you all BBC news articles that were created in 2020-02.

  Want to crawl the data by your own?

Please head to LatestEval for the crawler scripts.

  Credit… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RealTimeData/bbc_news_alltime.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News Mundo, featuring 4,560,000 subscribers and 1,064,567,142 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Entertainment category and is based in MX. Track 5,572 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

In February 2025, the BBC had a total of **** million monthly visits in the United Kingdom, according to the results of data designed to be nationally representative taken from ** thousand people across ** thousand devices measuring website and app usage. Mail Online followed with **** million visits, and then The Sun with **** million. Digital native site Money Saving Expert also made the top 20 ranking with just under ** million visits.

According to Airnow, there were *** thousand active users of the BBC Sport app in July 2020 in the UK. In July 2018, there were close to *** million active users of the app.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News عربي, featuring 12,900,000 subscribers and 5,646,994,479 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Entertainment category and is based in GB. Track 46,707 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News Japan, featuring 561,000 subscribers and 449,113,589 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Lifestyle category. Track 5,830 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

BBC News online was by far the most popular news brand in the United Kingdom, with ** percent of respondents stated that they accessed it for news information every week as of February 2024. The Guardian online, Sky News online, and Mail Online were among the other leading news brands as of early 2024, with The Guardian reaching ** percent of users weekly, and both Sky News and Mail Online achieving ** percent weekly penetration.

In the year ending March 31, 2025, the BBC saw an income of approximately *** billion British pounds. Of this, **** billion British pounds were attributed to the license fees paid by UK households. The BBC is a cornerstone of the British TV industry, with BBC 1 being used weekly by roughly ** percent of the population. BBC iPlayer In July 2007, the BBC launched its on demand internet service, the iPlayer. Today, the platform is seeing weekly viewing times of over *** million minutes. Landmark series such as Blue Planet II, saw almost **** million requests on the platform for its first episode. Viewership The BBC is the most popular broadcaster in terms of viewers in the UK. In july 2025, the BBC had an audience share more than *** percent higher than the next largest broadcaster. The BBC 1 channel alone, had a quarterly reach of approximately ** million in the third quarter of 2019.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News اردو, featuring 3,620,000 subscribers and 852,444,276 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Lifestyle category and is based in GB. Track 12,676 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

This dataset contains the headlines generated by the top 15 UK news websites over a time span of roughly 20 days. The headlines were scraped from the sites' respective RSS feeds.

• Time frame: 2023-02-13 to 2023-03-05

• Headlines were scraped in 12 hour intervals

• The dataset consists of two files:

  • The scraped data consisting of the headlines
  • Auxiliary data containing additional information for each of the news outlets

• Identification of the top 15 news websites in the UK: statista.com

• Data dictionary for scraped data:

  • website: BBC, Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, Independent, Telegraph, Guardian, Manchester Evening News, Sky News, Metro, Daily Express, Times, Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Live, Evening Standard.
  • timestamp scraped: Date and time when a particular headline was scraped.
  • headline: Headline of news article.

• Data dictionary for compiled auxiliary data:

  • website: BBC, Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, Independent, Telegraph, Guardian, Manchester Evening News, Sky News, Metro, Daily Express, Times, Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Live, Evening Standard.
  • RSS URL: URL to RSS feed for each of the above websites.
  • visitors unique monthly: In millions; taken from statista.com.
  • ownership: Entity owning a particular news outlet and thus the associated website. Source: General internet search.
  • political bias: left-center, center, right-center, right. Source: General internet search.
  • party support GE 2019: None, Conservative, Labour, Unknown. Source: General internet search. GE = general election.
  • journalism style: quality, tabloid. Source: General internet search.

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Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News Uzbek, featuring 2,100,000 subscribers and 940,021,014 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the News-&-Politics category and is based in GB. Track 10,901 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News Telugu, featuring 2,020,000 subscribers and 1,476,945,481 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the Lifestyle category and is based in IN. Track 18,455 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

In 2020, a year after the sitcom Gavin and Stacey dominated the list of most viewed television programs in the United Kingdom, the "Prime Ministerial Statement" of Boris Johnson emerged as the most viewed TV program . Its viewer count totaled nearly 19 million, outstripping reality shows "BBC News Special" and "I'm A Celebrity..." in second and third places by a wide margin of nearly 5 million individuals.

TV ownership in the United Kingdom

The number of adults who own a digital TV in the United Kingdom has increased over the years, with 94 percent in 2019 owning one. Unsurprisingly, the percentage of individuals who did was lower among 16 to 24 year olds but only by a marginal 3 percent. Over 55 year olds as a group had the highest percentage of TV ownership overall. By 2019, TV in the United Kingdom had a higher reach among women and children than men.

The future of broadcast TV advertising

In 2019, television advertising prices were forecasted to continue increasing until 2020. This hasn’t been an indication of growth however, as broadcast TV has been steadily loosing its audience due to the rise of video-on-demand services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, as well as the increasing popularity of YouTube. In a survey run from 2017 to 2019, viewing time decreased year by year for live TV, as more and more viewership time is being spent on video-on-demand platforms, YouTube, and catch-up-TV. This decline of live TV is also reflected in the reduction of broadcast TV commercial reach, which was dropped since 2016with fewer and fewer viewers watching ads in their entirety each year.

4.5 million headlines from 2007-2022, sourced from the top 10 news outlets by internet viewership*

Sourced from: - The New York Times - CNN - FOX News - New York Post - BBC - Washington Post - USA Today - Daily Mail - CNBC - The Guardian

If you'd like to see what data was scraped, import availability.csv into a spreadsheet, and use conditional formatting to highlight "True" green and "False" red.

• https://www.statista.com/statistics/381569/leading-news-and-media-sites-usa-by-share-of-visits/

Comprehensive YouTube channel statistics for BBC News, featuring 18,900,000 subscribers and 6,479,004,315 total views. This dataset includes detailed performance metrics such as subscriber growth, video views, engagement rates, and estimated revenue. The channel operates in the News-&-Politics category and is based in GB. Track 27,716 videos with daily and monthly performance data, including view counts, subscriber changes, and earnings estimates. Analyze growth trends, engagement patterns, and compare performance against similar channels in the same category.

The aim of the Great British Class Survey project was to understand the landscape of class and stratification in contemporary Great Britain. It was a joint project between the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Lab UK, BBC Current Affairs, and a team of academic researchers. The BBC initiated the research as part of an interest in exploring class dynamics in the UK in a new way, both theoretically and methodologically. Theoretically, the set of questions was inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's 'capitals' approach to social stratification; thus many questions are similar or identical to those in the Culture, Class, and Social Exclusion survey carried out by some of the academic team in 2003-2005. Methodologically, the GBCS was primarily carried out online, and included an interactive component as well as integration into social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The survey was widely publicized by the BBC, and completed by 326,712 respondents - 298,571 of them in the UK. Because the GBCS was a non-representative, non-random-sample survey, respondents were disproportionately university-educated and higher-income, paralleling the demographics of BBC viewership. A representative sample survey with identical questions was also carried out by the research firm GfK in order to facilitate comparison between GBCS respondents and the population of the UK as a whole.

The GBCS web survey is no longer online, but the BBC 'Class Calculator', derived from the initial analysis of the survey, is available.

The Independent had a monthly audience of over 28.1 million individuals from April 2019 to March 2020 in the United Kingdom. Reach was higher among adults over the age of 35 than for the 15 to 35 age group, with 19.2 million and 8.9 million readers respectively. The Independent on the internet

The Independent was established as a broadsheet paper in 1986 but after 30 years it stopped printed editions and is now an online only news publisher. However, it was not in the top ten most accessed online news brands in the UK in 2019, being placed 15th on a list topped by BBC News online.

Online news popularity

In a 2019 survey in the UK, it was revealed that the most popular printed or online newspaper (in terms of people holding a positive opinion of the paper) was the Metro. The Independent was seventh most popular with a positivity rating of 28 percent.