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

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Massive money to be made.

There's nothing to talk about with GBnews. The only half decent ratings they get are at 7pm to 8pm, posters will spring to action, tell us how wonderful that one hour segment was and how rating are sky rocketing and you tube views are astronomical. And then that's it for another twenty four hours.

Given how he counts viewers as cumulative over the course of a month I wonder if he actually earns as much as he thinks he does or was just adding up the bank account balance each day.

Leaving aside the fact that Thatchers policies were in no way driven by even the remotest concern about the environment, you can also argue that the benefits of closing fossil fuel sites were somewhat cancelled out by leaving entire communities to rot that then forced thousands of people out to add to the choke holds in the bigger towns and cities. Filletting their manufacturing sector has pretty much had the same consequence while also ensuring the uks carbon footprint could simply be exported to Asia.

Farages concern for the miners is very touching, though. I know the fishermen really appreciated it when it was their turn.

Just struck me that almost 2 months in to the GB News adventure, and there hasn't been a single topic they introduced, uncovered, or gave significant time to which has generated a response from any political figure or has been taken up by another station or paper to delve deeper in to it or to giver an alternative view.

They've been in the news for 3 things since they launched. Disciplining a guy for taking the knee in support of footballers who experience racist abuse, Andrew Neil going on sabbatical after just a couple of weeks and the hiring of Farage.

That's it, no calling truth to power, no uncovering topics that business or industry would like to keep hidden, just the above as their supporters bleat on about being anti-woke. I think they could end up being hoisted by their own petard in that they went to such efforts to sell themselves as something, that that's all people see them as and the appetite for people who can offer nothing more than simply complaining about others is gonna be quite small long term.

It would be like hiring a contractor for a renovation who can do nothing more than blame the last person who worked on the house.

From the little bits I've seen, their whole schtick seems to be about "you.... the ordinary people....", thereby trying to drive home to their audience that they are the ordinary people, and everyone else is an "other".

Indeed you will do anything to not address the valid questions posted like this

It's obvious the spike in the last two years is attributable to the pandemic and the necessary move to continuous assessment rather than end-of-year exams. The grades were pretty static prior to that (based on a chart posted earlier today regarding UK grades on BBC News).

The pandemic necessitated a different form of assessment, which has resulted in a different grading system, which has produced different results. However, college/university courses will most likely adjust their entry requirements based on same which will balance it out. Even in the future, people who got their results in pandemic years basically have an asterix next to their name.

Grade inflation is not "out of control", there's simply been monumental changes made in the last two years due to the pandemic, one of the consequences of such was higher grades compared to non-pandemic years.

Come off it, BARB is universally accepted as the defacto measurement of broadcast TV viewership in the UK for decades now.

It is the basis on which advertisers base their ad spend - low BARB ratings, low ad sales.

Youtube clicks (subscriptions, views, comments) can be bought online for about €5 to the 1,000.

Youtube income is derived solely from a combination of number of views and the average view duration, the later being the most important factor and one which is known only to GB News themselves. Wonder why they aren't shouting it from the rooftops? Besides the point, you don't rely on Youtube monetisation to fund a broadcast TV channel!

BARB was also the bees knees when the numbers looked like they were increasing at the start.

Unless someone can put forward a more accurate account of the viewing figures, then we should probably stick with them.

Thats not how statistics and market research works. You dont need to ask all 27 million households what they are watching to get an accurate picture of it. Instead they take a sample size that is representative of the population and statistically significant to extrapolate across the entire population. Opinion polling is the same, you dont need to poll everyone in the country to get an accurate picture. In fact doing so would be a complete waste of time and money because there are finite political parties to vote for, just as there are finite tv channels to watch.

In any case BARB is a not for profit that has been going for 40 years and is funded by the big British tv channels themselves, I think they know what they're doing at this stage.