There was a big increase in live listening hours from 1.29m in May to 1.95m in June, but on-demand listening hours actually fell from 144,000 to 118,000.
's audience dwarfed that of its commercial rival, , which attracted 400,000 users during June. TalkSport offered live commentary from the World Cup, but did not broadcast its programming on its website.
BBC Radio's other national station websites went through a seasonal drop in listening, with the result that its total web audience dropped from 9.21m in May to 8.69m in June.
Year-on-year growth figures tell a different story. The total audience for June is up 34% from June 2005's total of 6.48m users. Live listening hours increased by 61% to 13.18m and on-demand listening hours increased by 30% to 6.11m.
However, the internet is still very much a minority platform for listening compared with total listening across all platforms.
In an average week, the BBC's national stations attracted 466m listening hours and reached 28m people, according to the Rajar survey for the first quarter of 2006.
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