Our role and purpose, objectives and highlights
Category: Performance
Network television
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Radio
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Future Media
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News, national and local radio services
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Global performance
The BBC World Service Group is the global division of BBC News and includes the World Service, World News, bbc.com/news and Media Action. BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on radio, TV, online and via mobile. BBC World News and bbc.com/news, the BBC’s commercially funded international 24-hour news and information platforms, are owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd, a member of the BBC’s commercial group of companies. BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. It uses media and communication to inform, connect and empower people around the world.
| Audience by service (m) | 2013/14 | 2012/13 | Year on year change |
| World Service Group (Total Global News audience) | 265.3 | 256.0 | +9.3 |
| World Service | 191.4 | 192.2 | -0.8 |
| WS TV | 58.7 | 41.5 | +17.2 |
| WS Radio | 127.8 | 144.8 | -17.0 |
| WS Online | 18.8 | 14.0 | +4.8 |
| World News | 75.8 | 70.9 | +4.9 |
| bbc.com/news | 27.7 | 24.8 | +2.9 |
Source: BBC Global Audience Estimate (GAE). The GAE is a snapshot of the BBC’s global news weekly audience using the latest data available as of February 2014, covering 240 countries and territories. Data is compiled from a combination of market surveys, ratings data and web analytics. UK Domestic news is excluded from the calculation.
