14-03-2023, 12:42 AM
(13-03-2023, 11:10 PM)matthieu1221 Wrote:(13-03-2023, 10:25 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: Wow, I just decided to pop back to GB News and Talk TV tonight to watch 5 to 10 minutes each from 9pm. GB News was appalling and Talk TV was actually fairly decent.
GB News had Dan Wootton back from his holiday, and he got into a slanging match with Benjamin Butterworth about the Lineker story, and of course being GB News, totally unbalanced, as there was Carol Malone and another right winger either side of Benjamin, both agreeing with Dan, as they shouted down Benjamin when he tried to make a point, with Dan entering into a rant how the BBC should be de funded.
Talk TV actually looked sane. The Talk show, with the four panel members talked without shouting over each other. They covered the Lineker story, but in a much balanced way. I never ever thought I would say that a Murdoch owned station would have a show which was balanced.
One rates well, one doesn't.
Problem is, people don't equate TalkTV with balanced. And then again, even if they did, would they even switch away from whatever they are watching now?
GB News has tapped into a very FOX News-esque viewerbase. Why change anything if it's rather successful? For every viewer they gain by being a little more balanced, they might lose a viewer who likes it as it currently is. There's 0 incentive for them to be a little more balanced.
Neither rate well in real terms. IF GBNews was a real commercial broadcaster it would have closed ages ago with practically no viewers and ads selling for about 15 pounds a time (and I'm probably being generous there) The same of course could be said for Talk TV but as they have a bigger organisation behind them there might be some reason for the station to stay on the air.