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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho
Subject: Re: Doctor Who Ratings DISASTER | Episode 5 Loses 500,000 Viewers
 with Ncuti Gatwa's Return!
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:58:13 +1000
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Blueshirt wrote on 7/6/24 12:30 am:
> Daniel70 wrote:
>> Blueshirt wrote on 6/6/24 11:02 pm:
>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are the figures you quote now still those same BBC/BRITISH
>>>> org figures or are they Disney+ figures or something
>>>> entirely different??
>>>
>>> It's still BARB and they are for the UK only.
>>>
>>> Disney haven't released any official streaming figures for
>>> the worldwide territories where they stream Doctor Who on
>>> Disney+.
>>>
>> Hmm! So might it be the British Whovians (with Disney+) have
>> deserted the BBC, so deflating the BARB figures .... but,
>> eventually, inflating the Disney+ figures??
> 
> No, as Doctor Who is not streamed on Disney+ in the UK. It is
> transmitted on BBC1 and streamed on the BBC iPlayer. So a
> Disney+ subscriber in the UK (& Ireland) does not get to see
> Doctor Who as a featured show at the top of the Disney+ home
> page.
> 
But a British viewer who ALSO has Disney+ would still be able to view 
'Doctor Who' on Disney+ if they so wanted to, surely!! (Maybe they'd 
think Disney+ had a better quality Picture/Sound, or some such!!)

So then would have no need to watch 'Doctor Who' on BBC.
-- 
Daniel