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A potential 77.4 million free-to-air terrestrial households now have access to the channel's additional continuous news output, on top of the channel's ordinary distribution of 254 million households globally.
Audience figures for the BBC World Service have reached a record 163 million a week. The figure is 14 million higher than last year and beats the previous record of 153 million listeners in 2001.
2005/2006 was a year in which the digital revolution shifted up another gear. Month after month, the BBC’s website set new records for reach. Page impressions are now more than three billion a month. -- BBC Annual Report 2006, available here