So 166 million people watched the Euro Cup final last year, but 1.5 billion people watched Elvis in 1973? You kidding me? This was not even shown in China, India, or the USSR.
it was shown in 40 countries.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=3ixnhUy9Ma0C&pg=PA61viewed in prime time in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines, and by American servicemen in Southeast Asia. The next night the show would be shown in twenty-eight European countries via a Euro vision simulcast. NBC would air the concert in the United States [three months later].
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That's five short, but that figure may include some of the smaller South East Asian countries the US servicemen were stationed in.
1973 population figures AsiaJapan: 108,079,000
Philippines: 39,758,820
Thailand: 39,271,380
Korea, South:33,934,870
Australia: 13,380,000
New Zealand: 2,956,000
Asian Total: 237,380,070
28 Euro vision Countries in 1973: my generous estimate is at 400 million
US: 211,909,000
Total: 849,289,070
Even if every single man, woman, child, fetus, pet cat, goldfish in each and every one of those countries watched the fucking thing, it doesn't add up to a billion, let alone 1.5 billion.
And I was right: the source for the figures was the colonel!
http://books.google.ca/books?id=nOTxE8YQbWAC&pg=PT52&dq=Elvis+in+Hawaii++By+Jerry+Hopkins"The Colonel characteristically claimed that Elvis attracted a billion viewers--a boast impossible to prove or disprove [unless you're malek]. . . . " --
Elvis in Hawaii By Jerry Hopkins
"The Colonel characteristically insisted that Elvis got not just a half-billion but a full billion viewers" --Elvis in Hawaii By Jerry Hopkins
I'm going for a walk in the park. Fuck this forum!
