Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Old 24-07-2018, 13:44   #1600
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
Back to stats school for you too!

Think about it. If you toss a coin 1000 times, you're going to get about 500 heads and 500 tails. Do it a million or a billion or a trillion times, and the result isn't going to be much different. You'll just be more tired.


"Panel households are selected randomly, with controls in place to ensure that all sectors of the population and all TV viewing environments in the home are represented. Every home has a chance of being selected to join the panel"
Lots more info on their website if you are really interested.
Yes, but polling is much more intricate than that. It may be a 'random' sample, but the last election showed that these random samples were not properly identified in the first place. More emphasis on types of constituency from which the opinions were taken would have yielded a more accurate result.

Anyway, Virgin must have a pretty good idea as to how many people acfually watch these channels on their boxes, and I think that will be what would have convinced them to pull out of the existing arrangements with UKTV. It does sound like it was a pretty poor deal.

All VM are asking for is the same rights to box sets that Netflix and Amazon have, and the same ability to air their free channels without charge as other platforms do. Sounds reasonable to me. UKTV and the BBC need to have some serious discussions, or the former will lose a huge amount of money.
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