The BBC’s catch up tv service, iPlayer has had a happy christmas showing record breaking figures for the month.

The corporation revealed that shows on its online tv service streaming both TV and radio content were shown over 100 million times during December 2009. This  compares to the previous record which had an average of around 80 million streams.

The Christmas schedule, climax of the last season of Gavin and Stacey and Terry Wogan’s final radio broadcast on BBC Radio 2 were thought to be key factors in the figures.

During the last week of December there were 17.3 million requests just for for TV, a new record for TV show requests during a week period, the BBC revealed.

Erik Huggers, director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC said: “Breaking the 100 million barrier is a great way to kick off 2010 and these figures show that by offering simple and varied access to BBC iPlayer people are really finding it easy to catch up with their favourite programmes at a time that suits them.

“I expect more people to start using the service as we continue to make it more widely available and I’m looking forward to some of the new innovations we have coming to the service later on in the year,” he continued.

The BBC like Hulu and Youtube are leading the online tv revolution around the world, thanks partly to the many new features they keep adding such as iPlayer on your tv app.

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