[leewilliams]

So delighted are GBN at Nigel’s win that they’ve already devoted vast swathes of airtime to it and he’ll be giving the “inside story” to Dan Wootton tonight.

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Trying to think of any other news operation that would play out an acceptance speech for an award ceremony no-one’s heard of, filmed on someone’s phone, purely to stick it to the mainstream elite.

[eyeTV]

I can't really take seriously an award ceremony that didn't nominate any BBC or Sky programmes for the news category, but did list Talk TV Breakfast.

[London Lite]

I remember the TRIC awards having a right wing skew even back in the day when talkSPORT presenter James Whale would get nominated.

[chinamug]

These appear to be the awards for non mainstream channels. A bit like Football's FA Trophy. You're Semi Professional and you know it!

[TVViewer256]

Trying to think of any other news operation that would play out an acceptance speech for an award ceremony no-one’s heard of, filmed on someone’s phone, purely to stick it to the mainstream elite.

Since when have GB News tried to be like 'any other news operation' though?

They do things differently, whether you're a fan of that or whether you're not. That includes perhaps celebrating more than other channels when they win an award.

Not giving an opinion on whether I think it's right or not that they're devoting this much time to it, but pointing out that doing things differently is exactly the point of GB News.

[London Lite]

if it stops them from the usual wheel of culture war topics, then it's a bonus.

[derek500]

I can't really take seriously an award ceremony that didn't nominate any BBC or Sky programmes for the news category, but did list Talk TV Breakfast.

But last year's were OK as both Sky and BBC had nominations in the news category?

[leewilliams]

But last year's were OK as both Sky and BBC had nominations in the news category?

The whole thing’s a bit meaningless seeing as the nominations themselves are decided by public votes - and there was a concerted social media campaign by GBN this year to get their Twitter followers to take part, pretty much guaranteeing the inclusion of GBN programmes on the shortlist.

The TRICs are the product of lobbying and pretty meaningless for any recipient, which is why GBN crowing about them feels a bit pathetic. It’s like those food awards companies proudly stick on their packaging without telling you they had to pay to enter in the first place.

If GBN had won a TV BAFTA for their news output, then they might have cause for real celebration.

[derek500]

The public vote on a list, which is then shortlisted to five. Who decides what's in the list the public vote on?

[DavidWhitfield]

I don't know anything about the TRIC awards other than the fact that I recall GMB having a reference to being a TRIC award winner in their graphics previously, but I would have thought that an award voted for by the public was more valuable than one decided by some form of panel of industry insiders.