[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[GigiGalliNo1]

How are the promoters making money with our sport? If there aren't many people watching or we are all complaining the coverage is sh!te... are the promoters lying to advertisers with made up viewer figures and stealing their money?

Trying to make the sport interesting, with WRC+ and so on yet everyone dislikes it?

[Jack4688`]

The difference could be people like me - don't really like it in it's current format, hate the twatbag behind the mic on British coverage yet still I watch and add to the viewing figures.

[Franky]

How are the promoters making money with our sport? If there aren't many people watching or we are all complaining the coverage is sh!te... are the promoters lying to advertisers with made up viewer figures and stealing their money?

Yes, it's statistics. The biggest lie of them all. Took me some time, but found what they've claimed. In 2014 total of 799 million people watched WRC coverage at least once. So that's roughly 60 million per one round.

Now if we'd take two big annual events. Superbowl with it's ca 120 million record in the States and Eurovision with a bit over 200 million viewers. Both of those events are major events in their territories. As much as I'd wish for WRC to do well, I find it highly questionable that the WRC TV programming manages to get anywhere near 60 million unique viewers per event.

[Martins Tolks]

799 million only for TV or including wrc/wrc+ content?

[Franky]

Television

[Simmi]

799 million only for TV or including wrc/wrc+ content?

Maths not my strong point but I think that's just over 10% of the world's population. Is there a link to this claim?

[AL14]

Are you guys kidding me?
799 million people??

God they must be brave to just think to write it somewhere in public.

[dimviii]

number is too high to believe.

[seb_sh]

Is it 799 million individuals? How much does on person need to watch in order to be counted? If someone watches 30s on the news are they counted?

It could also be some kind of metric similar to "views" on youtube not individual viewers. So if I watch preview, each day review and final review for each round that's 5*13 = 65 "views" from me. If everyone watches like that it's 799/65 = 12.3 million people (roughly). Maybe not everyone watches all 5 programmes, let's say you watch 3 per event: that's about 30 million people that watched 3 things for each event totaling 799 million views.

I don't know how they count but I suspect it's something similar to that, here's an article about F1 where their viewership for all 19 races in 2014 is said to be 450 million but each race gets about 20 to 30 milion: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-1...d-prix/5326138

Also from the same article how for one race, the "cumulative" audience for Italy was counted to be more than the population of the country: << The report defined "cumulative audience" as "the sum of the average audiences of each individual broadcast". Italy, for example, had 71 "broadcasts". Adding average audience figures together, the report concluded the "cumulative audience" in Italy was nearly 65 million - more than its then population of 60 million. These numbers included live and delayed coverage and, in some markets, clips in news and other programs. >>

[stefanvv]

799 millions watched coverages, that makes 19 millions per highlight for a wrc round (3 daily + 1 event). May be it is possible.