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RE: GB News - derek500 - 13-07-2023

(10-07-2023, 06:05 PM)derek500 Wrote:  https://twitter.com/MediaGuido/status/1678418124025090048?t=bpnXa4162OsmoFlc3iWufQ&s=19 

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After an absence there's paid ads again on the radio simulcast.  Heard a Tesco one this morning.

Waitrose ads now.  The tide is turning!!

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RE: GB News - TIGHazard - 14-07-2023

(13-07-2023, 09:24 PM)Keith Wrote:  There's certainly been some interesting allegations regarding his past behaviour, notably from a series of tweets by @rubytrubes. I gather he also got a dishonorable mention in Private Eye recently.

I'm not going to post a direct link to either, though the current discussion on GB News with Mark Dolan feels slightly ironic.

Also Patrick Christys account has been suspended on Twitter, allegedly for 'violent threats'.

https://twitter.com/patrickchristys 

And Calvin Robinson made a substack post entitled 'Why Enoch Was Right'.

I imagine it's busy in GB News HR right now.

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RE: GB News - cando - 14-07-2023

(13-07-2023, 09:15 PM)London Lite Wrote:  Wootton was able to tweet from NZ about the Edwards news, but then deleted all of his tweets after his name was released.

Very strange, perhaps Darren Grimes will fill in 

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RE: GB News - Kim Wexler’s Ponytail - 14-07-2023

I don't know about New Zealand but he can be found in the dictionary under 'Hypocrite'.

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RE: GB News - Adsales - 14-07-2023

(14-07-2023, 09:15 AM)TIGHazard Wrote:  Also Patrick Christys account has been suspended on Twitter, allegedly for 'violent threats'.

https://twitter.com/patrickchristys 

And Calvin Robinson made a substack post entitled 'Why Enoch Was Right'.

I imagine it's busy in GB News HR right now.

"The tide is turning!!" ...likely in a different direction though.

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RE: GB News - all new phil - 14-07-2023

It’s funny. All are names they probably need rid of to be taken more seriously as a channel, but all also pull in the bulk of their viewers.

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RE: GB News - JMT1985 - 14-07-2023

(14-07-2023, 10:46 AM)all new phil Wrote:  It’s funny. All are names they probably need rid of to be taken more seriously as a channel, but all also pull in the bulk of their viewers.

That explains the type of viewers GB News appeals to - always remember this project was established by right wing and centre right broadcasters and funding team who felt BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky etc were all "left leaning" in their news coverage. 

A certain Andrew Neil used to take shots at Channel 4 News for being lefty for example, before then joining them when his GB News career imploded after two weeks, when he suddenly realised the demons he released with launching the channel.

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RE: GB News - Luc - 14-07-2023

Patrick Christys' ratings are poor, if you believe the BARB data posted by the GB News spin room Twitter account. As are Jacob Rees Mogg's, though the figures are all so tiny it's probably one or two OAPs forgetting to switch the channel.
You can imagine Dan Wootton returning from holiday and scripting a monologue against the woke, left Twitterati - I can't see him going anywhere but the schedule is so volatile on that channel that the rest of them are completely dispensable.

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RE: GB News - KrazyKei - 14-07-2023

It's fascinating the amount of people on here slating GB News for it's content and political outlook. Whilst I can be the first to criticise GB News, I see the bigger picture in that people of the centre-right view are ignored or pretty much shouted down by the established media before GB News was set up.

Have any of you thought or looked at yourselves and asked whether it is you that treat people of the alternative opinion as irrelevant or shouted down? Also ask yourselves as well if you think your views are superior to that of those who disagree with you. Then you might understand why more and more people watch GB News rather than the established media.

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RE: GB News - Adsales - 14-07-2023

(14-07-2023, 10:46 AM)all new phil Wrote:  It’s funny. All are names they probably need rid of to be taken more seriously as a channel, but all also pull in the bulk of their viewers.

That's the problem with GBN and has been from the start because what they want(ed) to do makes no business sense. 

The UK population is, in the large majority very much in the centre of the political spectrum. There is a higher percentage to be found left of centre than right of centre and far more at the very left end compared to the far right end. The UK is not like the US and not like Australia.

Because of a number of circumstances, we ended up with a government that sits far further to the right than the large majority of the population. People were always going to grow tired of that mismatch eventually. Since last summer numerous things have happened to expedite that process.

GBN wants to appeal to those who sit further to the right than the current government and that cohort of people is not exactly massive. It also has entrenched views which make it difficult to pivot further to the centre, let alone go anywhere left of centre. If you try, you lose your core audience. If you don't you can't grow your audience. 

A similar problem exists when it comes to presenters. The pool of presenters which are deemed acceptable by the core audience is small, very small. That of course explains the number of Tory MPs who come from the extreme right of the party gracing our screens if we choose to tune in to GBN, along with those other presenters, present and past, which wouldn't get airtime elsewhere.

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