iPlayer smoking with a million per day

The BBC's iPlayer web on-demand TV service saw its programme requests top more than a million per day last month.

The latest BBC figures show there were 35 million programme requests during November.

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Total requests for views on iPlayer since its launch in June 2007 hit 237 million by the end of November 2008, with another 61 million requests made via Virgin Media's TV platform to the end of October.

Jana Bennett, director of BBC Vision, described iPlayer's first year as "highly successful".

BBC iPlayer has come a long way since it was mired in controversy at its launch due to only being available as a download service for Windows XP.

By Christmas 2007, the service was available as a streaming service for Macs and Linux as well as Windows XP and Vista. The download service is due to come to Macs and Linux by the end of this year.

The service then received its first major revamp in June 2008.

iPlayer is now available on a range of portable devices, Apple's iPod and iPhone and the Nintendo Wii.

The explosion in online TV viewing has also prompted debates around the ability of the UK broadband networks to cope with the increased data traffic.