BBC World News America recently launched on DirecTV in High Definition, taking it above 40 million homes in the United States.

"MultiChannel News" states that "BBC World News" has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world, available in 200 countries and territories.

The BBC Media Centre goes on to report that:-

"Top U.S. distributors including DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Charter, AT&T U-verse and Cablevision, are now all carrying the BBC’s 24 hour news network.

More than 101 million unique browsers visited BBC.com and the BBC News app globally during the month of January 2015, generating a record 1.35 billion page views, which was an all-time high.

More than 500 local public radio stations in the U.S broadcast BBC World Service content - mainly news and current affairs programming, including the flagship global newscast Newshour, reaching 10.5 million listeners a week."