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Television audiences measured using GfK Media's electronic system revealed BBC One to be the most popular channel, with 42m viewers and a 94% weekly reach. ITV1 came second with 38m weekly viewers and an 85% reach.

BBC Two lost 1% of its audience but secured the third place with 37m viewers and an 83% reach.

Channel 4 maintained its fourth place with 35m and a 78% share while Five managed 30m and a 66% share, down 1% on its reach for the previous period.

Top of the multichannel offering was Sky Sports One, with almost 11m weekly viewers and a 24% share. Sky News came second with 9m viewers and 20%, with Sky Sports Two hot on its heels with 8.5m and a 19% audience share.

The GfK data also confirmed Capital FM's dominance over rival Heart FM, making it London's top commercial radio station with 2.7m listeners each week.

The station, owned by the Capital Radio Group, managed to increase its audience share to 27%, attracting an extra 128,000 listeners over the past six months.

It was closely followed by Chrysalis-owned rival Heart FM, with 2.6m and a 25% share. Emap's Magic FM came in third position with 2.1m listeners and a 21% share.

Emap-owned Kiss FM increased its audience by more than 60,000 to 1.6m and came in fourth place.

All four radio stations occupying the top spots increased their audience share from January, when the preliminary set of results were released: Capital and Magic by 2% and Heart and Kiss by 1%.

Figures also revealed that Euro 2004 gave national sports station TalkSport a boost, increasing its audience from 5.4m to 5.8m listeners.

Classic FM did not fare so well. It lost more than 300,000 listeners, falling to fewer than 5m a week.

At the BBC, Radio 4 came out top of the national survey results with more than 15m listeners and a 35% audience share, despite being down 1% on its previous audience share.

BBC Radio 2, down 2%, stayed at second place with 13.9m listeners and a 31% share.

BBC Radio 1 had a 25% audience share and 11.3m listeners, while Radio 5 Live and Radio 3 managed 8.3m and 3.9m listeners respectively.

The figures were measured by the Telecontrol Group, a subsidiary of worldwide market research company GfK Media Group.

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