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GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

killer b said:
The BARB figures look impressive for the launch. Reckon if they can sustain anything like these numbers they'll be happy.

www.theguardian.com

GB News launch gains more viewers than BBC or Sky news channels

‘Proud to be British’ new channel has backers including US Discovery and a Dubai-based fund
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I’ll bet a good portion of those opening viewers were leftists and centrists who just could not resist the temptation to rubber neck the RW car crash, just like they couldn’t resist the temptation to signal boost the launch all over Twitter, despite wiser heads suggesting why that would be a bad idea. Ho hum. Pavlovian masochism.
 
killer b said:
The BARB figures look impressive for the launch. Reckon if they can sustain anything like these numbers they'll be happy.

www.theguardian.com

GB News launch gains more viewers than BBC or Sky news channels

‘Proud to be British’ new channel has backers including US Discovery and a Dubai-based fund
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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This thread is just like a rolling news station. Every four pages or so BARB's Monday figures will come up again and the ensuing bunfight will be rehashed.
 
GBnews fans are upset about some sort of boycott of companies advertising on GBnews. I doubt the Boycott will come to much ,but the same people wanted to boycott Cadbury's recently , because they cancelled Easter, supported men kissing eggs and were halal or something.
 
marty21 said:
GBnews fans are upset about some sort of boycott of companies advertising on GBnews. I doubt the Boycott will come to much ,but the same people wanted to boycott Cadbury's recently , because they cancelled Easter, supported men kissing eggs and were halal or something.
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koppaberg pulling the adverts. Truly this is the forge of struggle cmrds
 
Jeremiah18.17 said:
I’ll bet a good portion of those opening viewers were leftists and centrists who just could not resist the temptation to rubber neck the RW car crash, just like they couldn’t resist the temptation to signal boost the launch all over Twitter, despite wiser heads suggesting why that would be a bad idea. Ho hum. Pavlovian masochism.
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It's been claimed in this thread that as none of us have BARB boxes our viewing won't count or something.

(I do wonder if having a BARB box affects how you watch the telly - I didn't watch the launch obv, but I guess I'd be much less likely to watch it if I had one of those boxes and knew it would actually count towards their figures...)
 
marty21 said:
GBnews fans are upset about some sort of boycott of companies advertising on GBnews. I doubt the Boycott will come to much ,but the same people wanted to boycott Cadbury's recently , because they cancelled Easter, supported men kissing eggs and were halal or something.
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Kopparberg has suspended advertising and Grolsch seems to be minded to do the same. I can't see GB News viewers being a major part of their demographic, so they wolud probably be squandering their advertising budget regardless of any boycott.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2021/06/15/which-brands-knowingly-or-not-advertised-gb-news
 
I suspect a lot of the issues are from an alt-right management, who think anyone being paid less than them, has an easy, simple job and where ignoring any complaints or issues raised as not their problem, so nothing was done to fix the issues.

Also in regards to OFCOM, they can't really issue an enforcement notice without the evidence. So I'm guessing they will leave it long enough to gather evidence and bring the ban-hammer down big style.
Or Bojo will have a word with OFCOM and they will let it slide 🙁
 
tim said:
Kopparberg has suspended advertising and Grolsch seems to be minded to do the same. I can't see GB News viewers being a major part of their demographic, so they wolud probably be squandering their advertising budget regardless of any boycott.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2021/06/15/which-brands-knowingly-or-not-advertised-gb-news
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It is worth noting that a lot of big brands use 'media buyer's' who bulk buy advertising at discounted rates then allocate it across a portfolio of brands. I once got three full pages in the Independent (this was when people read papers) for £450 via a media buyer.

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Octopus Energy are not likely to stay with this long, especially given their 'ethical' claims. The fact they only paid £1k does make me think that this Gammon Broadcast News is not reliant on ad revenue for the short term. Same sort of cunts who bankrolled Brexit will be happy to prop it up sadly.
 
Badgers said:
It is worth noting that a lot of big brands use 'media buyer's' who bulk buy advertising at discounted rates then allocate it across a portfolio of brands.
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There's that, but also 'Sky Media' acts as a sales house for most TV channels, the only exceptions I know are ITV & C-4 who both handle their own sales, and they have some sort of automated system the bundles up stations into packages, which in turn media buyers will buy for clients, hence these brands denying knowledge of their ads appearing on GBN.
 
A little off topic, but in response to some nasty mocking comments on here, generation wars are about as useful for the left as culture wars and age discrimination and senior-directed hate are toxic. Hopefully some of you will be part of the “older demographic” one day. There is a critique to be made of the companies and corporations that exploit and manipulate older people - but the comments on this thread are not about that are they?
 
Have all the racist and cruel fuckwits emigrated yet? Are they rushing to the airporrts as we speak? ANd shall we replace them with decent refugees from tyrannical states instead?
 
Jeremiah18.17 said:
A little off topic, but in response to some nasty mocking comments on here, generation wars are about as useful for the left as culture wars and age discrimination and senior-directed hate are toxic. Hopefully some of you will be part of the “older demographic” one day. There is a critique to be made of the companies and corporations that exploit and manipulate older people - but the comments on this thread are not about that are they?
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I'm fucking ancient and wouldn't dream of drinking and wouldn't dream of drinking strawberry flavoured, shite, Swedish cider. I was merely pointing out that the aged degenerates for who GB News probably share my palate.
 
killer b said:
It's been claimed in this thread that as none of us have BARB boxes our viewing won't count or something.
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yup, your viewing will only count if you have already been recruited by them

“TV ratings are compiled daily by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board. BARB recruits 12,000 people across 5,100 households representative of the overall UK viewing public. As well as demography and geography the panel is selected according to platform, whether the TV set or via desktop, laptop or tablet. The devices themselves log data about who in the household is viewing and what they are watching.”
 
belboid said:
yup, your viewing will only count if you have already been recruited by them

“TV ratings are compiled daily by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board. BARB recruits 12,000 people across 5,100 households representative of the overall UK viewing public. As well as demography and geography the panel is selected according to platform, whether the TV set or via desktop, laptop or tablet. The devices themselves log data about who in the household is viewing and what they are watching.”
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I know this. But someone yesterday was telling Orang his complaints about rubberneckers pushing the figures up weren't valid because none of us have BARB boxes - so either some rubberneckers have BARB boxes and GB News can claim their views as evidence of a successful launch, or GB News had a successful launch.
 
tim said:
I'm fucking ancient and wouldn't dream of drinking and wouldn't dream of drinking strawberry flavoured, shite, Swedish cider. I was merely pointing out that the aged degenerates for who GB News probably share my palate.
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I’ve no doubt some of us are already in an older demographic. I was not so much referring to Cider advertising as people making snarky comments about stairlifts, incontinence pads and equity release plans...
 
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