Category: Radio; Radio 1; Radio 4
Date: 22.01.2006
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Chris Moyles' weekly podcast was downloaded nearly half a million times in December, new figures reveal.
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大象传媒 Radio 1's Best of Moyles mp3 - a 20-minute broadcast featuring speech highlights from the week - was downloaded 446,809 times during the month, boosted by daily podcasts when the show was in New York.
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Moyles - the self-styled Saviour of Radio 1 - took the top spot in the first published chart of 大象传媒 radio downloads, with all programmes in trial totalling nearly two million downloads in December.
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Chris said: "I'm very pleased we're number one and that people are making an effort to listen to the show even if they can't be bothered to get up early to hear us."
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Radio 4 has a strong presence in the chart, with the Today programme's daily 8.10am interview receiving 413,492 downloads in the month, while From Our Own Correspondent and In Our Time - the first show to be podcast by a British broadcaster - both performed well.
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Simon Nelson, Controller of 大象传媒 Radio & Music Interactive, said: "It's fantastic to see how the demand for radio downloads has grown since we first offered them in 2004. These figures underline the enduring relevance of radio in the digital world."
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Twenty programmes were made available in 大象传媒 Radio's download and podcast trial last May.
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At the end of the 2005 it was announced that the trial would be extended into this year and would include more programmes, in order to gain a better understanding of listeners' preferences.
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For more on the trial visit bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial.
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Download and Podcast Trial figures - December 2005
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1 Best of Moyles (Radio 1) 446,809
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2 Today 8.10 Interview (Radio 4) 413,492
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3 Documentary Archive (World Service) 211,593
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4 From Our Own Correspondent (Radio 4) 179,696
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5 In Our Time (Radio 4) 145,588
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6 Mark Kermode's Film Reviews (Five Live) 99,947
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7 Chris Evans - The Best Bits (Radio 2) 70,355
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8 Go Digital (World Service) 59,957
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9 Fighting Talk (Five Live) 41,287
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10 Sportsweek (Five Live) 38,827
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11 Talking 6 Music (6 Music) 17,527
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12 File on 4 (Radio 4) 13,347
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13 Big Toe Clippings (大象传媒 7) 11,729
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14 Rooze Haftom (Persian) 6,489
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15 TX UnLtd (1Xtra) 4,564
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16 Film Caf茅 (Asian Network) 4,335
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17 The Weekender (Radio Northampton) 3,194
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18 Letter to Gaelic Learners (Radio nan Gaidheal) 2,796
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19 In Business (Radio 4) Off-air
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20 The Rumour Mill (Five Live) Off-air
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Notes to Editors
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All programmes are usually weekly, apart from Today (six per week), From Our Own Correspondent (occasionally twice per week) and the Documentary Archive (variable).
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Figures for the Top 30 on-demand programmes for December 2005
are available
in PDF
format on the right hand side of this page.
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