This statistic shows the quarterly reach of the BBC One television channel in the United Kingdom (UK) from the first quarter of 2012 to the third quarter of 2019. In the third quarter of 2019, BBC One reached roughly 55 million viewers.

The BBC News TV channel has seen a decline in reach over recent years in the United Kingdom. In the second quarter of 2019, there were just over 18 million viewers. Five years previously, the number of viewers stood at 25 million.

Number one for news?

According to a 2019 survey, a quarter of adults in England use the BBC News channel for news. However, it’s not the most commonly used news source. BBC One was used by 58 percent of respondents, and 38 percent used ITV. The third most used news source in England in 2019 was the social media service Facebook. 

What about the most popular TV channel generally?

The most popular television channel in the UK, as of September 2019, was Channel 4 with a 77 percent positivity rating. The second most popular channel was BBC One with 76 percent, and then ITV came in third with 70 percent.

This statistic shows the quarterly reach of the BBC Three television channel in the United Kingdom (UK) from the first quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2015. In the quarter ending September 2014, BBC Three reached 44.95 million viewers. The number of viewers fell to 40.92 million in the third quarter of 2015.

In the year ending March 31, 2024, 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 2024, 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.

An interactive Story Map Series℠ explaining the links between the Demographic Transition Model and population pyramids (population structure) for almost all the countries in the world. It provides an excellent way to make spatial links with the demographic data. For example, each country is mapped using an interactive symbol representing its stage on the DTM. On clicking the symbol for any country, a pop-up provides a statement about its stage on the DTM and its 2018 population pyramid, provided by PopulationPyramid.net.The tabs in the Story Map Series℠ take the reader or presenter through an introduction and explanation of the DTM, followed by detail about particular places / countries currently at each stage including an example of anomalies which are less consistent with the model.The story map will be useful for a wide range of students and teachers of geography, demography and development at secondary and tertiary level.Credits and further study*Story Map template by Esri*Demographic Transition video by GeographyAllTheWay*Population structure diagrams from PopulationPyramid.net by Martin de Wulf based in Brussels, Belgium.*DTM diagram and population pyramid icons from Cool Geography *Population Education / PopEdBlog*BBC Bitesize Population growth and change*Thanks also to Ed Morgan of the ONS for very helpful feedback and further information.NB The DTM stages for each country are estimated and may be altered in due course.

Information about the ethnic affiliation(s) and characteristics of a human population. Includes, for example, information about: the ethnic groups located within a geographic region, their community social structures, their mutual associations and conflicts with other groups, their historic roles and influence, and the physical distribution of their members. Ethnic groups are human populations whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of having a common cultural traditions and heritage (for example: as distinguished by customs, language, religious practices, or common history) or a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.

This statistic shows the quarterly reach of the BBC Two television channel in the United Kingdom (UK) from the first quarter of 2012 to the third quarter of 2019. In the third quarter of 2019 BBC Two hit its lowest number of viewers since 2012 at roughly 49.6 million viewers.

The data are from a large Internet-based survey designed and administered in collaboration with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Between November 2009 and April 2011, 588,014 individuals competed the “Big Personality Test”.

Volunteers were told that the survey was designed to assess personality and that by clicking on the link to proceed to the survey they were giving their consent to participate. Informed consent was not requested from the next of kin, caretakers, or guardians on behalf of minors or children because only individuals 18 and older were eligible to participate. Initiating the survey was used as a record of participant consent. To complete the survey, respondents clicked on a link on the BBC’s Lab UK website.

Before beginning the survey, respondents were asked to create a BBC ID if they did not already have one. This was used to invite participants to take part in future projects and to prevent individuals from repeat responding – the survey could not be completed more than once with the same ID. After completing the survey, participants received customized feedback about their personalities based on their responses to the survey items.

A primary aim of the data was to map the distribution of personality in Great Britain (GB), so of all the participants who completed the survey, only those who reported living in England, Wales, and Scotland were included. Participants who did not complete the personality measure were also excluded. These selection criteria resulted in a total sample of 386,375 respondents.

In the present dataset, the researchers are sharing select demographic variables and the personality data used for mapping personality variation across GB. The dataset includes postcode sector information, which allows for aggregating responses for 380 Local Authority Districts.

Further information can be found on the BBC Lab UK Big Personality Test webpage.

Some participants also took part in other studies hosted by the BBC’s Lab UK (with the same unique ID) so in principle matching is possible across data sets. A combined dataset containing matched respondents who also completed the BBC Big Money Test is available from the UK Data Archive under SN 8132.

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.

As of October 2024, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 were the top three leading TV broadcasters in the United Kingdom (UK). In this regard, the BBC held an audience share of about ** percent. ITV and Channel 4 had audience shares of ** and **** percent, respectively. BBC One viewing BBC One was the most popular TV channel in the UK in 2023/2024, with about ** percent of the population using the service at least once a week. The audience spent on average ***** hours weekly watching the BBC’s leading channel.   BBC finances The BBC relies on the television license as its main means of funding. In 2024, the BBC generated **** million British pounds in revenue, most of which was attributed to the license fees paid by UK households. That same year, BBC One accounted for most of the BBC’s television programming spend, with costs exceeding *** billion British pounds. In addition, the BBC had to incur an overall cost of *** pence per user hour to deliver TV services through its main channels in 2023/2024.

SD, standard deviation.*p values were calculated using Chi-square test and t-test was performed to test group difference for categorical and continuous variables, respectively.Population Characteristics.

This statistic displays the weekly reach of BBC news and national and local radio services in the United Kingdom (UK) from fiscal year 2015/16 to 2019/20, based on the services' local population. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal had the greatest weekly reach, with 57.4 percent of the population using the service at least once.

BBC Good Food magazine had an average monthly reach of 13.9 million individuals in Great Britain from April 2019 to March 2020. Reach was higher among women, with over 10 million women reached by BBC Good Food or its digital incarnation bbcgoodfood.com monthly in this time period.

The Canadian Breeding Bird Census (BBC) Database contains data for 928 breeding bird plot censuses representing all known censuses of breeding birds carried out in Canada during the period 1929–1993. The 928 records in the database represent 640 unique census plots located in all provinces and territories, except Prince Edward Island. The BBC, which was replaced by the current Breeding Bird Survey, is one of the longest-running surveys of bird populations in North America, and was designed to help determine abundance and distribution patterns of bird species. An important feature of the BBC Database is the habitat data associated with each census plot. The most prevalent vegetation species in different layers (canopy, shrub and ground cover) were recorded to reflect the assumption that birds respond principally to vegetative structure.

World Cities provides a basemap layer of the cities for the world. The cities include national capitals, provincial capitals, major population centers, and landmark cities.Sources: Esri; Bartholemew and Times Books; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (The World Factbook); International Organization for Standardization; United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research; GeoNames; Executive Secretary for Foreign Names - U.S. Board on Geographic Names; U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; BBC News; Global Mapping International

BBC Top Gear magazine had an average monthly reach of around 1.4 million individuals in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020. Reach was higher among men, with over 1.1 million men reached by the print title or its website during this period.

This statistic shows the print and digital reach of BBC Gardeners' World magazine in Great Britain from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group. Reach was higher among adults aged over 35, with nearly 2.7 million adults over 35 reached by the print title or its website.

There is an urgent need to understand the factors that mediate and mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on behaviour and wellbeing. However, the onset of the outbreak was unexpected and the rate of acceleration so rapid as to preclude the planning of studies that can address these critical issues. Coincidentally, in January 2020, just prior to the outbreak in the UK, my team launched a study that collected detailed (~50 minute) cognitive and questionnaire assessments from >200,000 members of the UK public as part of a collaboration with the BBC. This placed us in a unique position to examine how aspects of mental health subsequently changed as the pandemic arrived in the UK. Therefore, we collected data from a further ~120,000 people in May, including additional detailed measures of self-perceived pandemic impact and free text descriptions of the main positives, negatives and pragmatic measures that people found helped them maintain their wellbeing. In this data archive, we include the survey data from January and May 2020 examining impact of Covid-19 on mood, wellbeing and behaviour in the UK population. This data is reported in a preprint article, where we apply a novel fusion of psychometric, multivariate and machine learning analyses to this unique dataset, in order to address some of the most pressing questions regarding wellbeing during the pandemic in a data-driven manner. The preprint is available on this URL. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.18.20134635v1

This statistic displays the weekly reach of BBC radio stations in the United Kingdom from fiscal year 2015/16 to 2019/20. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, BBC Radio 2 had the greatest weekly reach, with 26 percent of the population using the service at least once.

During the last quarter of 2023, weekly reach of BBC Radio stations in the United Kingdom amounted to almost 31.3 million individuals. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year this figure stood at 33.2 million.