The world’s digital giants Netflix and Amazon Prime are in a ratings war today with competing live streams of the signature count on the barmstorming ‘Revoke Article 50 and Remain in EU’ petition.
Now TV is believed to be also lining up to secure the rights to replay the streams next year, although Dave is understood to be rumoured to be launching a joint bid for the repeats with U.K. TV Gold.
”The BBC were offered exclusive broadcast rights to the vote count by the dozens of Twitter accounts set up expressly for the purpose of alleviating pressure on the petition website, but they declined,” our modern world and its media analyst said,
“and that’s not surprising, given that both the petition website and the BBC News Service are state run. Although to be fair, the petition site is much more impartial and actually works constantly to eliminate errors. No one had said that about the BBC News since David Cameron successfully lobotomised it with the help of overpaid celebratory anchors.”
But the instant success of the streaming broadcasts with the petition count isn’t pleasing everyone.
”The guy who films his fireplace to help people unwind and streams it live is none too pleased,” our analyst notes, “as apparently watching the petition count rise over 5m is causing so much relief for millions of viewers people aren’t watching the flames currently.”
Why it is so popular can only be guessed at, so we will.
”It’s because, as with the massive anti-Brexit march in London yesterday, it says that the U.K. hasn’t yet turned culturally into a far right zombie basketcase, even if it’s government and official opposition has.”
Asked why the BBC declined the offer to broadcast the petition count a spokesman for the BBC said,
”What Revoke Article 50 petition? What people’s vote march?”