BBC TV: weekly consumption by channel UK 2023

In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, the largest share of BBC television viewing time was spent watching BBC One, at approximately seven hours and five minutes a week, down by eight minutes from the figure recorded in the previous year. The channel CBeebies recorded a time spent of around four hours and 35 minutes.

Time audiences spent watching BBC television each week in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015/16 to 2022/23, by channel (in hours.minutes)

Characteristic	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
BBC One	7.34	7.33	7.21	7.02	7	7.43	7.13	7.05
CBeebies	4.21	4.1	4.13	4.07	4.21	4.15	3.35	4.35
BBC Two	3.06	3.08	3.07	3	3.01	3.1	3.02	3.05
CBBC	2.31	2.3	2.33	2.25	2.24	2.15	2.16	2.22
BBC Four	1.43	1.46	1.45	1.43	1.55	1.49	1.41	1.41
BBC Three**	1.44	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.2

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2023*

Age group

4 years and older

Special properties

excluding news channels

Supplementary notes

* BBC's fiscal year ends annually on March 31.
**BC Three was discontinued in February 2016 and relaunched in February 2022.
Data for years prior to 2021/22 were published earlier by the source

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