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

to be fair that criticism was entirely justified. I mean, dijon mustard on a burger? Really?

Well, he was at one stage. Now he's just something that sounds like that.

Yup, but now he is an MEP who milks the system to get as much money as he can, employs his wife as his "secretary" and laughs about how easy it is to make loads of money at this "game".

When asked how much money he is holding, Farage replies:

This represents four working days and one journey. We're talking about £1,900. It's a good job this.  

I worked it out that because so much of what you get is after tax that if you used the secretarial allowances to pay your wife on top of all the other games you play I reckon this job in sterling terms is worth over £250,000 a year to you - that is what you would need to earn working for Goldman Sachs or someone like that.

He also claimed he was "skint" but the truth is different.

Nigel Farage has earned up to €790,000 on top of his €100,000-a-year salary, putting him sixth in a list of the highest-earning MEPs.

Now remember.....this is a "man of the people"

But Marcus Rashford who may have got better or new sponsorship deals due to now having a higher public profile has been accused by a poster of doing something illegal without a shred of evidence.

So, according to a poster in the thread

old white millionaire guy who claims to be skint has scammed money off the taxpayers but he's ok

Young Black man that grew up in poverty but is now a millionaire due to hard work, who made sure over a million children were fed during a pandemic, who forced the government to back track on taking school dinners away from impoverished children and has (after being a key player in the English football team reaching the final) become a role model for children may have upped his market value to potential sponsors is labeled a criminal.

Can anyone else see an agenda here?

I'm sure eskimohunt is too busy to respond. Probably recovering from having watched the hard-hitting interview and panel discussion that just happened on GB News.

They've only been on air for about 6 weeks, and already they're getting big interviews with Donny Marie Jimmy Merrill Osmond.

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1419772551752994822?s=19

Probably too busy trying to find a negative in this latest Rashford story.

And lets not forget some of them care about bendy bananas

Ah i see that poster has found the thread, prepare yourself for loads more of that type of content.

Wow no delete function I see!

Did you get those figures from this page? If so, why did you delete the BBC News ratings?

Regardless, as I and others have pointed out, Farage was always expected to come in with fairly high ratings to begin with, which will likely level off a bit after a few weeks. But more importantly if the channel as a whole isn't getting ratings like that, or possibly even higher (again, given that Sky News and BBC News can compensate for low-middling ratings with the rest of their network whereas GB News has to stand/profit on its own), then the audience that GB News does have won't be enough to keep them viable/sustainable.

I switched over last night during ad breaks for something else to see what was happening, and their big Monday night guest was Merrill Osmond. If I had to name four of the Osmonds, I'd only be able to name three, and Merrill still wouldn't have been one of them. Carole Malone's first question to him was to ask him to sing a few lines from one of their songs.

As much as I'm sure Farage would love it, they can't just have him in the background supping on pints for every show. Farage's show won't save the channel. The rest of the channel needs to substantially increase their ratings.

BBC Outside Source is just the programme that was on BBC News at the same time, in the same way Sky News Tonight was the show on Sky News at the same time. If anything it shows that more people watched a show most of us have never heard of, with a presenter most of us have never heard of (Ros Atkins), than watched Farage.

Regardless as I said, most of us said Farage would bring in big ratings for a few weeks. The true tell, as with most new programmes of the like, is what the ratings are like after a month. How much of the audience are they retaining? Is the audience growing? There'll always be a big initial bump for a new show, new host, known figure etc. It's what happens after a month that is key (same as how GB News started off with okay ratings and after a month some shows viewing figures were statistically zero).

The nail in the coffin stuff is more about the desperation in having to shake up their schedule after a month to pander to more of the leaning-right audience after having suspended a presenter for exercising his free speech and opinion (the core values of GB News) because the audience got angsty about it.

He'll be calling for Katie Hopkins to get a slot next.

Imagine going to all the effort to cut out another stations figures etc, just to big up a show having a huge daily decline

GB News is now available to watch live 24/7 on YouTube.

Just clicked on to it (a little bit of me died inside) to see the live number of viewers.

334 viewing it at the time. I'm sure the other 180k subscribers will be along shortly.

Sky had 7.4k watching live just to provide context.

Who is "offended" by it though? For me, the success or failure of the channel is simply an interesting topic of discussion. I haven't watched it bar flicking over to it a few times to see what was happening (and who could possibly be offended by Merrill Osmond?).

It's not about us watching it or not, or if it suits our world view or not, it's about whether the stated target audience watches it or not, and as the ratings are showing the target audience either aren't really watching or are a smaller audience than expected.

Trump is a much more different type of discussion because as a result of his position he has monumentially damaged political discourse in a way that is filtering out into other countries (even when George Galloway lost in the recent by-election in the UK, he went straight to claiming he was going to challenge the results in court, just like Trump). GB News isn't offensive, it's just interesting to see and discuss how it's performing.

Because they are desperate for a "win" any "win" at all even a made up one.

Its all part of this idea that everything is a battleground. Look at this eskimo fella feeling the need to counter everything and convince us with stats that are never going to work as if there are points to be scored or a battle to be won and lost