New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

Youtube views will not keep a station on air though, they are bleeding TV viewers and therefore sponsors are bleeding money.

They have 500 videos on their channel. 10m views over 500 videos is an average of 20k views per video.

No wonder it's so warm. GB News is so hot they're setting the world on fire!

Thanks for highlighting an example of a employer reprimanding their employee for expressing their personal opinion.

And double thanks for a BBC one, that was criticizing the UK right wing government and not those socialists.

You're ignoring the fact that Farage has made numerous appearances on GB News already. He's already a regular contributor, the only difference is now he has his own show. So viewing figures with Farage on the channel aren't an unknown quantity, we already know viewership doesn't rise significantly because of him. Also, a quick scan of GB News' youtube page shows that videos featuring Farage don't do any better numbers than most of their other stuff.

They'll see a bump in viewing figures for a week or two with Farage and with Neil coming back. After that they're likely to fall again.

Has Neil confirmed that he is coming back?

nothing extreme at all. you make a big deal about that 7.5M number. I'm asking if that translates to anything useful from the perspective of a broadcaster.

But it isn't doing well and your desperation for it to succeed is just making you look silly as you resort to quoting YouTube views and Farage's tweet figures. Neither of those things matter, it's a tv channel whose success will be determined by its viewing figures. And as we've seen so far, it's failing miserably on that front.

This Nigel Farage?

MEPs have even less influence when they don't bother to turn up to do the job they are elected to do. Farage excelled himself with how little influence he had as an MEP.

It's a bit ironic when you accuse me of "selectively choosing facts" and "opting to spin".

Essentially you're saying Farage would have won a parliamentary seat if it wasn't for FPTP. Like your BARB-Youtube deflection, it's not relevant to the discussion. The parliamentary system in place in the UK is FPTP so under that system, Farage has never succeeded in getting people to back him on anything more than a (very) small scale. "He would have won if we counted it X way" doesn't and couldn't apply. As for the one seat UKIP managed to win, it was an ex-Tory MP!

Cameron called for the Brexit question because there was a large (and increasing) faction within the Tories that were unhappy with the EU. Cameron didn't expect leave to win. Funnily, neither did Farage at the time either. As soon as Leave won, Cameron abandons ship and Mr Farage departs off into the sunset along with a sizable number of those directly responsible for the Leave outcome. I've yet to see any sort of workable plan from Farage and Friends on how the UK should leave other than the UK calling the shots over the EU on what should happen. It's easy to campaign for something, the hard graft is in actually implementing it in a workable way.

Now for the facts you selectively chose not to address:

• Youtube subscriber count is still irrelevant in gauging the success of a broadcast TV channel
• A tweet's impression is not an accurate gauge on viewer potential
• Farage's turnout in the EU Parliament was pathetic
• He was on the fisheries committee and showed up to 1 meeting out of 42
• He subsequently attended protests as part of Vote Leave and Brexit, protesting against issues that were within the remit of, no prizes for guessing this one, the fisheries committee he never bothered his backside showing up to.

But hey, I'm sure Farage will work his finest rabble rousing to date on GB News and you'll be here next week and beyond telling us how GB News and Farage is smashing all of the others out of the park (just ignore the BARB ratings).

Really? He is waffling, something about migrants (nothing new there) then a whinge about the EU flag and the Olympics.... and he calls this a WTF (What The Farage) moment.

Nothing new, nothing interesting, just more right wing hyperbole from a failed politician who's trying to stay relevant.

I didnt call him a "right wing facist" you did, I personally think he is an odious little shìt who appeals to the people of England who are in the lower I.Q range.

I don't think you actually understand the term racist...