GB News / Talk TV

Originally Posted by Pierre

Lovely girl, very good at warding off mosquitoes.

Thought that was her sister…

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Thought that was her sister…

There's a good match in extra time over on ITV!

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

There's a good match in extra time over on ITV!

Macron must be shitting himself! Trouble is France are likely to do better than Switzerland on penalties. I hope not, of course.


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Oh yes!

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mick

Former Boris Mistress on GB News right now lol: Petronella Wyatt.

How many bottles of wine did she have before the interview

Originally Posted by Mick

Neil said from the outset that it would not be a rolling news channel, however, I think that is a mistake, even if it just allocated specific times of the day to rolling news, or have top of the hour bulletins for 15 minutes and then it can choose to discuss elements of those topics brought up after within the same hour.

I think the problem is there doesn't seem to be much of a market for an opinion-led news channel on British Television. It's the type of thing people get on YouTube or other social media.

I know they want to clip their segments for social media but they're doing so at the cost of a major operation whereas YouTube channels are usually a freelance presenter with a camera. Those YouTube channels will get more views as well.

I can't see how GB News is viable in the long term unless they turn this around. They're getting fewer people than Sky News and Sky News runs at a loss subsidised by the wider Sky Television offering. GB News needs to be profitable in it's own right.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Damien

I think the problem is there doesn't seem to be much of a market for an opinion-led news channel on British Television. It's the type of thing people get on YouTube or other social media.

I know they want to clip their segments for social media but they're doing so at the cost of a major operation whereas YouTube channels are usually a freelance presenter with a camera. Those YouTube channels will get more views as well.

I can't see how GB News is viable in the long term unless they turn this around. They're getting fewer people than Sky News and Sky News runs at a loss subsidised by the wider Sky Television offering. GB News needs to be profitable in it's own right.

It just reminds me of the Today newspaper - underfunded with far less news content than its competitors and with technical errors.

But Today was at least innovative with new colour presses and it encouraged changes in Fleet Street working practices. I'm not sure what GB News brings to the table that hasn't been done better on YouTube, LBC or Talk Radio before.

[Sephiroth]

Well put, Andrew. It doesn't meet its hyped objectives and, for the time being at least, it's a fail.

[jonbxx]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

It just reminds me of the Today newspaper - underfunded with far less news content than its competitors and with technical errors.

But Today was at least innovative with new colour presses and it encouraged changes in Fleet Street working practices. I'm not sure what GB News brings to the table that hasn't been done better on YouTube, LBC or Talk Radio before.

Yeah, it's a tough call. As it stands, the viewership is low which will impact advertising revenue. I get the feeling that the expectation was the this channel would be more Fox News for the UK than it is. You could see a drift further right to differentiate which might get more viewers but might also scare off more advertisers.

Bearing in mind advertisers bring in money, not viewers, it's a tough call

Their ratings are in free-fall: https://twitter.com/peteprodge/statu...21888693596166

WEEK 4:
BBC News: Weekly reach: 7.3m/Share: 1.41%
Sky News: 4.9m/0.75%
GB News: 1.8m/0.49%

WEEK 3:
BBC News: 7.2m/1.15%
Sky News: 4.5m/0.67%
GB News: 2.7m/0.62%

As I said I can easily see some of their content working on social media. Still early days but I really think they've taken on a huge budget to appear on a medium where their audience isn't. This would work better online, uploading videos to YouTube, with a much smaller budget and team doing a few hours of programming each day in the evening.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Damien

Their ratings are in free-fall: https://twitter.com/peteprodge/statu...21888693596166



As I said I can easily see some of their content working on social media. Still early days but I really think they've taken on a huge budget to appear on a medium where their audience isn't. This would work better online, uploading videos to YouTube, with a much smaller budget and team doing a few hours of programming each day in the evening.

Relaunch it as UK news

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Damien

Their ratings are in free-fall: https://twitter.com/peteprodge/statu...21888693596166

As I said I can easily see some of their content working on social media. Still early days but I really think they've taken on a huge budget to appear on a medium where their audience isn't. This would work better online, uploading videos to YouTube, with a much smaller budget and team doing a few hours of programming each day in the evening.

The novelty viewers have left and viewerss; like figurehead Andrew Neil; have left, but are even less likely to return than him. There won't be direct competition from News UK as it's done its sums.

Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of his News UK company, told staff the enormous cost of getting a television news channel on air meant it did not make business sense to push ahead.

She said the company would instead focus on reaching news audiences via shows on streaming platforms, adding: “While there is consumer demand for alternative news provision, the costs of running a rolling news channel are considerable, and it is our assessment that the payback for our shareholders wouldn’t be sufficient. We need to launch the right products for the digital age.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-uk-tv-channel

GB News say that they don’t have a company line on taking the knee, but then say taking the knee is an unacceptable breach of their standards.

Both can’t be true.

[daveeb]

Originally Posted by Hugh

GB News say that they don’t have a company line on taking the knee, but then say taking the knee is an unacceptable breach of their standards.

Both can’t be true.

Could be an example of alternative facts crossing the pond

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Hugh

GB News say that they don’t have a company line on taking the knee, but then say taking the knee is an unacceptable breach of their standards.

Both can’t be true.

I don't believe either are true, I mean they have standards

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I don't believe either are true, I mean they have standards

Set by Andrew ‘Don’t" Neil?