Two BILLION watched the Royal Wedding?

[Brighton Breezy]

What a load of RUBBISH. As if one in three people in the WORLD watched it.

I love it when people make up a random figure and none of the press question it.

 

[Triggaaar]

Have you got a link to that? I'm not even sure that many people have access to a tv.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Royal wedding watched around the world - Telegraph

This makes a convincing case.

 

[Racek]

How do they work it out?

 

[sydney]

i'm not up with this sort of thing but in true nsc fashion i am going to contradict you and say the two billion viewers would be a 1 in 4 or 25 % rather than 1 in 3........

 

[Brighton Breezy]

i'm not up with this sort of thing but in true nsc fashion i am going to contradict you and say the two billion viewers would be a 1 in 4 or 25 % rather than 1 in 3........

My bad. I thought the overall population of the Earth was about 6 and a half billion.

Even if it is one in four, that is still BALONEY.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

I think it is probably true. The BBC feed went to 180 countries (there is only 195 countries in the world)

 

[KZNSeagull]

Anybody know who owns the TV rights?

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

I would suggest that the royal household own the TV rights.

 

[bhaexpress]

I have to confess given the time differences across the World I find two billion a bit extreme as well. The press and media do like to hype these things up as they think that statemnets like this make good 'feel good' copy.

 

[sydney]

My bad. I thought the overall population of the Earth was about 6 and a half billion.

Even if it is one in four, that is still BALONEY.

BALONEY isn't that a sausage...

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Take out the 1,331,460,000 who live in China and the shed loads of people in the Third World or elsewhere who don't have access to a TV and it is clearly a bonkers figure.

Good article here: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-unites-the-world-in-mathematical-lunacy/

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Take out the 1,331,460,000 who live in China and the shed loads of people in the Third World or elsewhere who don't have access to a TV and it is clearly a bonkers figure.

Good article here: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-unites-the-world-in-mathematical-lunacy/

The Chinese did tune in...so you need to put that 1.3 billion back into play. Not all of them obviously!

 

[Triggaaar]

Good article here: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-unites-the-world-in-mathematical-lunacy/

Well said that man - utter nonsense

 

[kalinski]

talked about here as well Sporting Intelligence

 

[Fungus]

My bad. I thought the overall population of the Earth was about 6 and a half billion.

Even if it is one in four, that is still BALONEY.

I doubt that one in four Brits watched it, unless you include those force-fed it on the news highlights.

 

[Mellotron]

I'm certain a LOT more than 1 in 4 Britons watched at least some of it. Also I can guarantee ALL of India would've watched it, theyre obsessed with our royals, so that's near a billion on it's own.

 

[BensGrandad]

Its a good job that our royalty are not poular cos god knows what the viewing figure would have been if they were

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Apparently the choirboys in Westminster Abbey will earn £7,500 each in royalties for the broadcast of their choral anthems

 

[Husty]

i'm not up with this sort of thing but in true nsc fashion i am going to contradict you and say the two billion viewers would be a 1 in 4 or 25 % rather than 1 in 3........

The earth's pop is 7.2 billion (ish) but how many of those have access to a TV?