BBC TV audience falls as online usage grows

LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC's share of the national television audience slipped last year with teenagers switching off in "disproportionately large numbers", the corporation said in its annual report for 2005/2006 on Friday.

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The percentage of people watching at least 15 minutes of BBC television programming a week -- the BBC's measure of audience "reach" -- fell last year to 85.3 percent, down from 86.6 percent.