So much for the views held here
01-08-2025, 19:46
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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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01-08-2025, 19:59
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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01-08-2025, 21:11
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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01-08-2025, 21:12
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Re: So much for the views held here
well we are pretty screwed voting labour or conservatives . No better options anywhere
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01-08-2025, 21:28
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Re: So much for the views held here
A lot has changed since last month, then...
From the BARB website
https://www.barb.co.uk/monthly-viewing/
Also, from the Press Gazette (where the figures don't match Guido's)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publisher...sky-july-2025/
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GB News marks milestone on mission to be biggest TV news channel in UK by 2028
Average daily viewership for GB News was 81,000, with BBC News Channel on 79,000.
GB News has claimed a major milestone for its TV ratings as it beat BBC News Channel and Sky News for average viewership in several key slots in July.
However Press Gazette understands the total weekly reach for the BBC News Channel through July remained more than twice the size of GB News while Sky News was almost double.
This means GB News appears to be engaging fewer people in total each month but the high average viewership means their audience stay watching for longer.
The BARB figures for July have not yet been consolidated and are therefore broadcast only, excluding on-demand platforms – meaning the BBC’s figures are likely to increase once iPlayer data is added in...
...In the breakfast slot, GB News presenters including Eamonn Holmes, Stephen Dixon, Ellie Costello and Anne Diamond had average viewing of 98,910 between 6am and 9.30am on Mondays to Sundays in July.
GB News said Sky News was on 71,560 in that time slot while BBC News Channel was at 41,250 – but it should be noted that the vast majority of viewing is at Breakfast on BBC One.
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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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01-08-2025, 21:30
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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01-08-2025, 23:13
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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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02-08-2025, 00:24
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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?
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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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02-08-2025, 00:39
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Re: So much for the views held here
Is there another channel so overtly right wing?
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02-08-2025, 10:31
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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. |
”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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Is there another channel so overtly right wing?
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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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02-08-2025, 10:55
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Re: So much for the views held here
‘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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02-08-2025, 11:05
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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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02-08-2025, 11:08
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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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02-08-2025, 11:24
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Re: So much for the views held here
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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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02-08-2025, 12:07
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Re: So much for the views held here
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.
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