Britain - All BBC Digital Stations Lost Listeners

The Guardian reports "Every one of the BBC's five digital radio stations has lost listeners over the second quarter of this year, despite the corporation ploughing more than £70m into the services." (annoying but free registration required to read it).

That's worth repeating "Every one of the BBC's five digital radio stations has lost listeners...".

Add to this the steep decline in BBC television viewers and it's clear the British public are fed up with the left wing bias coming from the BBC. Read further down in my referenced post and you'll see why.

Figures published tomorrow [Jan 11, 2005] will show that the BBC's audience share has fallen to its lowest level for years. Industry body Barb (the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board), will report that the BBC's overall share of viewers dropped from 38.3 per cent in 2003 to 36.62 per cent in 2004, a fall of just under 4.5 per cent.

The corporation's critics are likely to seize on the figures as proof that the BBC's share of the overall TV market is now in terminal decline, despite the launch of several expensive digital channels, including BBC3, BBC4 and BBC News 24.

'If current trends continue, the BBC will account for less than a third of the total TV audience by the end of 2006,' claimed an executive at a rival broadcaster last night. Commercial broadcasters argue that this would cast doubt on the future of the licence fee. 'The BBC is locked in a spiral of increasing spend and declining audiences,' said one rival.

And we're forced to pay for it.
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