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

skyscraper101 said:
I agree but from what I gathered it isn't a phone in show. I might be wrong though I haven't watched it.
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No, it's not a phone in.

I watched it yesterday, and was very disappointed. I had previously only watched Michelle Dewberry, which is wonderfully inspired car-crash comedy. Farage is shitty with low production values (the show as much as the human being), but lacks the three wtf moments per minute I've come to expect. He did have Arlene Foster on Skype and referred to her as Arlene Phillips, but that's about it.
 
According to Broadcast Now, early BARB figures for last week, show they have lost around another 20% of their viewers, meaning the average weekly audience has fallen to just 18k, which is a third that of Sky News & a sixth of BBC News.

Plus, well short of the estimate that they need a average weekly audience of 135k to break even. :thumbs:
 
skyscraper101 said:
What really confuses me - is why after all their bleating about being this fresh, new alternative to the mainstream BBC etc who'll report 'real' news and not the Westminster briefed 'establishment' news - they start by basing their entire setup in London, and then go on to employ this bunch of has-been over 50s white male ex-establishment media presenters with nothing new to offer and no unique/unreported news from around Britain. They seem to have barely any regional reporters at all. The other day, watching for a while I saw a grand total of one live linkup to a reporter in Leeds and that was the only remote link they seemed to have all day, which they kept going back to over and over for this non-story. It was beyond crap.

If they'd actually based themselves outside of London, ditched the old past-it presenters and gone with more interesting new talent/regional reporters and live-links on the ground, instead of this weird anti 'woke' thing with a crap studio - they could've totally carved out an audience by being different and delivering something fresh and identifiably not BBC/ITN/Sky. They had so much opportunity to break new ground but wildly missed the mark from day one by putting Andrew Neil, Alistair Stewart, Simon McCoy et al front and center, trying to hold down these boring ass discussions in a crappy studio and then throwing their toys out because they get caught out with prank calls or a presenter makes a gesture of anti-racism.
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It’s fake ‘anti-establishment’, just the same as the UKIP lot being run by hedge fund libertarians and other private school rabble-rousers. Works on the premis that the 50-something white male is society’s greatest victim, because you can’t do a racism anymore without someone telling you off a bit. Totally sits in this world view and was always intended to, it should be no surprise that it’s not actually something fresh and new, just tedious bog-standard top-down reactionary drivel.
 
DaveCinzano said:
Coincidentally the same guests will also be on the first episode of the flagship weekend entertainment show MICHAEL BARRYMORE'S IT'S ALL WHITE POOL PARTY, with music from Van Morrison, Clapton, Fox and that Mumford & Son's bloke.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Eric Clapton refuses to play venues requiring vaccines for concertgoers

The UK recently announced that proof of vaccination will be required at venues and nightclubs.
www.bbc.co.uk

In May, Clapton said he had experienced a "severe" reaction to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
In a letter to Mr Monotti, he blamed "propaganda" for overstating the safety of the vaccine. He added that he feared the "disastrous" reaction would leave him unable to play music again.

Doh! 😠
 
More figures for everyone's entertainment.

So, Farage kicked off with 96k viewers to his first evening show on Monday, by Thursday's show, down -30% to 67k. :D

Viewing figures - Thursday 22/7
At 19.00 -
BBC News - 132k
Sky News - 72k
GB News - 67k
Average for 7pm - 1am -
BBC News - 117k
Sky News - 71k
GB News - 27k

Highest v lowest average:
Highest -
BBC News at 22.00 - 239k
Sky News at 23.00 - 141k
GB News at 19.00 - 67k
Lowest -
BBC News at 00.30 - 40k
Sky News at 18.30 - 22k
GB News at 09.00 - 10k

I expect figures for Farage will continue to drop, probably to around 50k, piss poor for their new poster boy, what a shame, never mind. :D
 
If I'm reading that right they will disappointed that he's not even out performing the generic BBC news output at that time. I watch a lot of the other news channels in the background when using my laptop and around that time there's nothing noticeable on iirc.
 
BristolEcho said:
If I'm reading that right they will disappointed that he's not even out performing the generic BBC news output at that time. I watch a lot of the other news channels in the background when using my laptop and around that time there's nothing noticeable on iirc.
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Yep, you are reading it right, and yes, it's just basically standard rolling news on the BBC & Sky at that time.

Their dream bubble, in which they thought Farage could save them, has been well & truly burst, and they are now hurtling back down to planet earth.
 
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