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166,000,000

166,000,000 -- weekly audience reach for BBC World Service (2011)

Name: Weekly Audience Reach Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-20

2011 · BBC World Service

BBC World Service reaches a weekly audience of 166 million globally across multiple platforms.

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Value

166,000,000

Unit

Count

Data Vintage

2011

Entity

BBC World Service

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

BBC World Service Primary Tier A

https://about.rferl.org/article/bbg-bbc-call-on-un-to-condemn-iranian-threats-against-independent-me… ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2011 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

BBG, BBC Call On UN To Condemn Iranian Threats Against Independent Media

Original Research

BBC World Service · Original study ↗

Methodology

Official BBC self-reported global weekly audience across radio, TV, online and wireless platforms

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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BBC World Service: 166,000,000 weekly audience reach. Source: BBC World Service (2011). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bbc-world-service-weekly-audience-166m

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