So much for the views held here
 

From Guido fawkes


In a busy month for TV news, the latest BARB viewing figures reveal that GB News has outpaced BBC News and Sky News on average for the whole of July. GB’s total average viewership across the month stood at 1.37%, compared to the BBC’s 1.33% and Sky’s way down on 1.14%. Summer of content for the People’s Channel…

Yesterday, GB News raked in an average of 92,400 live views, while BBC News had 58,100 and Sky News only 54,900. A reminder that Comcast has not yet renewed their contract with Sky. Britain’s news channel leaving the mainstream media in the dust…

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I may be way off but I do not consider this a working class forum more middle class and often out of touch with what lower levels of society want I do not mean that offensive it is what it is . I think the general population have had enough and that is why Reform did so well recently

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CF is mostly old male cable TV/broadband nerds (me included). A representative sample of the the population, it isn't. But that doesn't matter there's a place for everyone ;)
As for Reform (and their GB news pals), once elected as we've seen in local Govt they're a busted flush. All very well protesting but that's all they can do. If you use a protest vote prepare for the consequences.

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well we are pretty screwed voting labour or conservatives . No better options anywhere

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A lot has changed since last month, then...

From the BARB website

https://www.barb.co.uk/monthly-viewing/

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...3&d=1754075981

Also, from the Press Gazette (where the figures don't match Guido's)

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publisher...sky-july-2025/

Oh, I see - GB News is beating the BBC News Channel in the morning, when most people watch the BBC News on BBC1...

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Gb news must be doing something right to get all those views, question is what are they doing that the others aren't

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They're spouting the views that their fans want to hear.

In the words of Jim Cornette, "For the people who like that kind of thing, that's the kind of thing they like".

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Doesn't that kind of work for everything?

example:
Years ago you watched on TV what your dad wanted to watch.
Now everyone has a Phone, or laptop, and probably a TV in each bedroom, so you can watch watch, listen to, and read whatever you're into . . within reason :)

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Is there another channel so overtly right wing?

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”Busted flush” as regards Reform UK needs yet to be seen. But Labour is definitely a busted flush and the Conservatives, my party, ar simply busted.


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Here we go. “Right wing” - what’s wrong with GB News understanding the feelings of the average Brit?

What is wrong is for Government to ignore those feelings and for the likes of the BBC to do likewise.

Indeed what is “right wing”? Gas the Muslims? Gas the Jews? Gas the Catholics? Gas the Tories? You can’t put a valid finger on “Right Wing” in the general UK context. Yet everyone knows what the “left wing” is - and it is the opposite of what the average Brit believes.

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‘Understanding the values of the average Brit’ you say. Do you have the numbers/evidence to support that or are you just testiculating*

*the art of waving one’s arms about whilst talking complete balls

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The recent local elections not enough for you ?

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Could you explain how that statistically defines ‘average’ ? Are you making the assumption that watchers are reform
Voters ? Or?

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I do not feel the need or urge to quantify anything to you

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I rapidly drifted away from BBC News when almost every topic became about women.

Rich women, poor women, fat women, thin women, artistic women, sporty women. No matter what the major event was, they morphed it into something about women.

Women may be around 50% of the population, but does all reporting have to be about them?

Sky News just seems biased and full of adverts, but so is GBNews in most respects. But at least GBNews has the guts to invite people from opposing political views to join in their debates.