Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
In which case the same should be applied to the BBC. Taking each programme aired on the BBC and counting the viewing figures for each programme, then the BBC figures would exceed the Ryanair passenger count within a few weeks
Using BARB's figures , the average weekly reach of BBC1 is 44,184,000
Dave
That is exactly my point.
O'Leary is multiple-counting when he's talking about Ryanair's passengers. 64 million people may have flown Ryanair last year, but a high proportion of those 64 million people flew Ryanair more than once.
If you count up all the times a person watched the BBC last year (counting each viewing as a separate person as O'Leary is counting each passenger flown as a separate person) in the same way, you'd have billions of people.
O'Leary is wrong.