I saw the Brexit piece by Oliver on Monday morning. HBO tend to publish the major segment on YouTube immediately after broadcast, but they often geo-block viewers in the UK from seeing it - to a large part because Sky Atlantic who have the rights to Oliver (and nearly all HBO programming) broadcast it on Monday evening and obviously they want to keep it fresh for viewers. In this instance HBO very definitely *didn't* geo-block it.
When I saw it on Monday, it was instantly clear that it would be illegal to broadcast it in the UK, and over the course of the next couple of days it was widely shared on social media in the UK. Not that it made a damned bit of difference as 52% of my country-folk are fools and have seemingly voted for a recession. But I'll leave politics out of it. I actually blogged on this subject earlier this week if you want to know more about the legal issues: http://www.adambowie.com/blog/2016/06/john-oliver-on-brexit/ Lisa de Moraes is very wrong about newspaper readership however. The Sun sells 1.7m a day, the Daily Mail 1.5m and The Sunday Time 800,000. The number of readers is greater still, which makes a dent in a population of 60m. To what extent newspapers affected the vote I couldn't say, but while sales are ever diminishing, they continue to have power - and are read particularly by an older readership. Adam On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Bob Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote: > > As required by Ofcom regulations, until after the vote which sadly didn't > go his way. And even though print media (which, the writer observes, nobody > reads there) aren't similarly regulated. > > Lisa D > <http://deadline.com/2016/06/john-oliver-brexit-criticism-last-week-tonight-video-1201779213/> > (link) > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
