Teletubbies - revenues from this year's leading brand, Teletubbies, reached a record £32m. Teletubbies can now be seen in 120 countries and territories and in 20 languages. In a landmark deal, Tomy will distribute BBC-sourced Teletubbies toys made in Asia to the Japanese market.

02
Top of the Pops - is selling around the world in localised versions to countries as diverse as France, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Italy, India and Thailand.

03
Channels - wholly-owned and joint venture - reached 230m* homes around the world.

Our joint venture with Discovery Communications has already generated $46 million co-production and direct commission revenues.

* measured on an aggregated basis

04
Americas: A remarkable year in the USA:

- BBC WORLD started to supply live news bulletins to 66 American public television stations, making it available to 45% of US homes, as well as on BBC AMERICA.

- BBC AMERICA reached 9m households after just one year in existence.

- Successful launch in US of Noddy in Toyland.

05
Radio Times - showed excellent financial performance, held circulation steady and sold over three million copies of the Christmas issue (the first sales increase for this special double issue for eight years).

06
Delia - sold one million copies of her new book Delia's How to Cook: Book One in 1998/99. We also passed the sales milestone of ten million BBC/Delia cookery books sold over the past 20 years.

07
Audio - a strong performance within its market. Talking Heads 2 was the best earning new title, and nine Talkie awards were won, including Talkie of the Year: Ambush at Fort Bragg.

08
Magazines - a strong financial performance across the whole group. Homes and Antiques and Gardeners' World achieved excellent sales. Awards included Top of the Pops and Publisher of the Year, to Family Group's Director Gillian Laskier.

09
Branded blocks of BBC programming on non-BBC channels opened new windows in global markets.

10
New media - beeb.com has more than doubled traffic since March 1998 (ABC audit, March 1999 - 8.7m page impressions). beeb.com ranks in the top five UK entertainment websites. Over £400,000 was donated via beeb's Red Nose Day website.

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CD-ROM: BBC Worldwide broke into the US market on the back of our powerful Teletubbies brand - Play with the Teletubbies hit number one in the US educational CD-ROM chart and helped us more than double our overseas CD-ROM revenues.

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Creative recognition - BBC Worldwide people won a record 38 industry awards, many highlighting our creativity in design, product development and marketing.

Photography
Top of The Pops - Mark Allen
Michael Heffernan
John Ross