Talk:Glen Michael

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[edit] Dubious: Two billion viewers

Two billion viewers? Several times the population of the US. Two million viewers? Sounds okay.

Yeah, it's probably meant to be two million, but I didn't want to assume that without checking. (Writer could have been making stuff up for all I knew :-) ).

Fourohfour 23:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

It's an accumlative two billion. A nation of five million, a popular show and a thirty year span. Evidenced on SAGA FM site. Think they get their figures from stv. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.143.143.148 (talk • contribs) .

Cumulative? I'm not buying this. If you mean they simply added up (e.g.) two million viewers for each show, then this is misleading and not something I've seen before. Fourohfour 13:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

You've never seen accumulative figures for something before? Just change the article to read accumulative then. It's a very basic statistic to demonstrate popularity, that's all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.143.143.148 (talk • contribs) .

Can you provide a link to the SAGA FM page that provides that statistic? Thanks. Fourohfour 10:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC) Sorry, it was the one at the bottom of the page. I'm still going to ask for advice on this sort of figure though. Fourohfour 10:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Additional: this site defines cumulative figures as "different or unduplicated persons or households listening during a specified period" (my emphasis). We can assume that this is over the lifetime of the show here. If this is the case, then a show which was mainly shown in Central Scotland could never have had that many viewers. Fourohfour 10:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)