Sheik djibouti
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What....both of them?There is speculation within the station that Neil could even present some of his GB News shows from his European base.
Core viewers ain't gonna like that!
What....both of them?There is speculation within the station that Neil could even present some of his GB News shows from his European base.
Core viewers ain't gonna like that!
Have I over estimated?What....both of them?
Possibly....did you count Mike Oxlong and Clee Torres in your estimate [emoji848]Have I over estimated? [emoji15]
I think the answer to that is a big 'no', none of them attract many viewers. Looking at viewing figures for the week of July 5th, GB News was averaged 28,000 viewers between 6pm and midnight, Sky 52,000 and BBC 124,000 - that's 204,000 viewers across all three news channels. If you add in the multitude of international broadcasters (CNN et al), you'd probably still struggle to 300,000.Do any 24 hour news channels get many viewers? I should imagine the combined viewing figures for every one of them is tiny. The world didn’t need more of them so GB news was pointless, especially so in the age of the internet, streaming etc.
Like most people I get my news on here, it’s mostly about whether kneeling is a good thing, with my knee problems I can tell you it’s not.
Isn't the average viewer count a bit misleading for a rolling news channel though? People will dip in and out of the channels, that's the nature of the beast. The average will be 'concurrent users', what would be a more meaningful number would be 'unique users' (apologies for the use of IT-centric jargon), do we have any idea of those numbers?I think the answer to that is a big 'no', none of them attract many viewers. Looking at viewing figures for the week of July 5th, GB News was averaged 28,000 viewers between 6pm and midnight, Sky 52,000 and BBC 124,000 - that's 204,000 viewers across all three news channels. If you add in the multitude of international broadcasters (CNN et al), you'd probably still struggle to 300,000.
Steve, I think you can probably extrapolate those figures from the BARB numbers but they would still be very low. Also, the channel is set-up as a schedule of opinion lead shows, rather than strictly rolling news, as per Sky and BBC.Isn't the average viewer count a bit misleading for a rolling news channel though? People will dip in and out of the channels, that's the nature of the beast. The average will be 'concurrent users', what would be a more meaningful number would be 'unique users' (apologies for the use of IT-centric jargon), do we have any idea of those numbers?
GB isn't a rolling news channel and has never said it wants to be one?Any aspirations they had of being a 'rolling news' channel have now well and truly disappeared. Once the appalling Farage and Wootton have finished broadcasting their 'opinion' lead shows then people just turn off. Even those viewing numbers are poor (peaking at 70,000 I believe) and I can't believe that advertisers are queuing up. They are creating the odd trending piece on Twitter and Tik Tok (?) but you can't monetise that.
I saw the interview that Neil did with Rishi Sunak early on and it just showed what a good political interviewer he is. Sunak was expecting an easy ride and he was taken apart. They are now reduced to Farage shouting at the RNLI and expounding his nasty xenophobic views, while employing right comedians (and I'm being generous with the term 'comedian') such as Mark Dolan.
Be interesting to get the views of Wandering Yellow, the one contributor to the forum seemingly genuinely looking forward to the launch of GB News.
It was nominally a news channel before purely becoming a home for right wing editorial. I’m assuming from your general tone that you’re one of the 70,000?GB isn't a rolling news channel and has never said it wants to be one?
It never showed rolling news like BBC and Sky News and they constantly said they would not be like them. I watched the first few days to see what it's about, that's about allIt was nominally a news channel before purely becoming a home for right wing editorial. I’m assuming from your general tone that you’re one of the 70,000?
No, but it is a 24 hour ’news’ channel, so therefore all of these right wing opinion pieces have to be backed by an element of news gathering. That now becomes irrelevant as the tiny numbers watching seemingly want Farage and the man with a face for radio, the cretinous Dan Wootton. No wonder even the likes of Pier’s Morgan and Nick Ferrari gave it a wide berth!It never showed rolling news like BBC and Sky News and they constantly said they would not be like them. I watched the first few days to see what it's about, that's about all
He certainly says it like he thinks it is and that’s why he’s talking to 25,000 people on GB News. The man who compared fighting COVID measures to opposing Nazi Germany. Never trust a man who wears a scarf indoors.Yes I know the source is GB News but I`ve worked with Neil Oliver a few times over the years and he "says it like it is".
Enjoy.
He certainly says it like he thinks it is and that’s why he’s talking to 25,000 people on GB News. The man who compared fighting COVID measures to opposing Nazi Germany. Never trust a man who wears a scarf indoors.