I should imagine the coast to coast guy won't be everybody's cup of tea now he's left the BBC and joined gbnews with these kind of thoughts.
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Faux News minus fit (though dumb) birds.
He's taking no prisoners this week either.
GB News has entered the new year with a new plan: cut costs, hire more major talent, get off an advertising blacklist – and force all producers and presenters to take training workshops brushing up on “the law and Ofcom”. Alan McCormick, the GB News chairman, is aiming to make the operation more “disciplined” and none of the approximately 200 editorial staff will be exempt. In a new year missive to staff outlining the priorities for the business in 2023, seen by the Guardian, McCormick said the first step will be a training schedule designed to help GB News avoid repeatedly falling foul of the media regulator Ofcom’s broadcasting code.
Building credibility is another key aim, particularly after the reputational blow of losing names such as the former lead presenter and chairman Andrew Neil, and the launch editorial director John McAndrew, the ex-Sky News senior executive who has gone to BBC News.
Recent hires include Michael Portillo, the Daily Mail’s Andrew Pierce, and Camilla Tominey from the Telegraph, alongside the former ITV star Eamonn Holmes. They join an on-air lineup that includes the polarising figure of Nigel Farage, who fronts GB News’s most popular show.
According to Guardian research, GB News attracted almost 170 advertisers or campaigns in the first half of last year, and more than 180 in the second half, including brands such as Camelot, Burger King, Jet2, TalkTalk and Weetabix.
In December the TV channel reached 2.87 million viewers, comfortably ahead of TalkTV at 2 million, although average daily viewing is only 41 seconds. Sky News achieved a monthly reach of 8.5 million and the market leader, BBC News, clocked in at 11.4 million.
GB News Radio is also growing its audience, with weekly reach up 50% to 415,000 from the second to third quarter last year.
@theGuardian
Building credibility is another key aim, particularly after the reputational blow of losing names such as the former lead presenter and chairman Andrew Neil, and the launch editorial director John McAndrew, the ex-Sky News senior executive who has gone to BBC News.
Recent hires include Michael Portillo, the Daily Mail’s Andrew Pierce, and Camilla Tominey from the Telegraph, alongside the former ITV star Eamonn Holmes. They join an on-air lineup that includes the polarising figure of Nigel Farage, who fronts GB News’s most popular show.
According to Guardian research, GB News attracted almost 170 advertisers or campaigns in the first half of last year, and more than 180 in the second half, including brands such as Camelot, Burger King, Jet2, TalkTalk and Weetabix.
In December the TV channel reached 2.87 million viewers, comfortably ahead of TalkTV at 2 million, although average daily viewing is only 41 seconds. Sky News achieved a monthly reach of 8.5 million and the market leader, BBC News, clocked in at 11.4 million.
GB News Radio is also growing its audience, with weekly reach up 50% to 415,000 from the second to third quarter last year.
@theGuardian
Andrew Neil seen as a loss, how quickly his star fell when he left the cosiness of the BBC.
Pandering to ofcom, says it all. Another media outlet put back in it's box. I expect we won't be getting an alternative view on the jab anytime soon or any other contentious issues.
Pandering to ofcom, says it all. Another media outlet put back in it's box. I expect we won't be getting an alternative view on the jab anytime soon or any other contentious issues.
Oh yeah pandering to regulations.
Censorship being another word for it.
Censorship being another word for it.
I do have an affinity for your stance on media censorship - just that we seem to approach from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
GB News still wants to be seen as a 'disruptor' to the sstatus quo but sets out an agenda that remains unsympathetic to a changing world it can do little to prevent.
'Tilting at windmills' is exhausting, no?
Immigrants; for example. GB News expounds the views of people who wish to see fewer migrants integrated into British society yet a recent survey says...
Ethnic segregation in England and Wales is on the wane as more people live alongside neighbours of different backgrounds, creating “rainbow” towns and cities, research reveals.
Neighbourhood diversity more than doubled nationally between 2001 and 2021, with huge transformations in some places. There was close to a tenfold increase in diversity in Boston, Lincolnshire, albeit from a low base; Barking and Dagenham recorded a ninefold increase, while diversity in Watford and Reading increased fourfold.
Newham was the most blended place and outside London the most diverse areas were Slough, Luton, Birmingham and Leicester. The trend has been charted by a team of international population geographers crunching the latest 2021 census data on ethnicity and using a “diversity index” that ranks places by the spread of different ethnic groups represented.
Part of the effect is down to a decline of 1.1 million in the white British population and increase of 8.7 million in all other ethnicities over the past 20 years.
“But it is not solely a function of white British decline,” said Gemma Catney, population geographer at Queen’s University Belfast and a co-author of the study. “We do see growing diversity and spread. There is a broader rainbow of different ethnic groups represented across districts than ever before.”
“A lot of communities have come and gone,” said Paul Skinner, the leader of Boston council. “The rate of change has made some people uncomfortable, but it is a question of embracing the differences.”
@theGrauniad
Ethnic segregation in England and Wales is on the wane as more people live alongside neighbours of different backgrounds, creating “rainbow” towns and cities, research reveals.
Neighbourhood diversity more than doubled nationally between 2001 and 2021, with huge transformations in some places. There was close to a tenfold increase in diversity in Boston, Lincolnshire, albeit from a low base; Barking and Dagenham recorded a ninefold increase, while diversity in Watford and Reading increased fourfold.
Newham was the most blended place and outside London the most diverse areas were Slough, Luton, Birmingham and Leicester. The trend has been charted by a team of international population geographers crunching the latest 2021 census data on ethnicity and using a “diversity index” that ranks places by the spread of different ethnic groups represented.
Part of the effect is down to a decline of 1.1 million in the white British population and increase of 8.7 million in all other ethnicities over the past 20 years.
“But it is not solely a function of white British decline,” said Gemma Catney, population geographer at Queen’s University Belfast and a co-author of the study. “We do see growing diversity and spread. There is a broader rainbow of different ethnic groups represented across districts than ever before.”
“A lot of communities have come and gone,” said Paul Skinner, the leader of Boston council. “The rate of change has made some people uncomfortable, but it is a question of embracing the differences.”
@theGrauniad
GB news wanted to mop up a section of the audience for its own gain.
Ofcom said your stretching it, back in the box.
So more of the same, so we can get reports and polls saying everythings going swimmingly.
Ofcom said your stretching it, back in the box.
So more of the same, so we can get reports and polls saying everythings going swimmingly.
As a regular consumer of GB news via tv and radio, i don't agree that it expounds the views of people wanting to see fewer migrants. In my opinion it expounds the views of people that want to see an end to uncontrolled migration and specically the channel crossing economic migrants.
As an example, there has been no negative reporting on the Ukrainian refugees.
I suspect the Ofcom awareness is to help them move more into the mainstream and get off Ofcom's naughty step.
Racist laws anything to do with this move to all singing kumbyyah?
I seem to remember they said they weren't going to do the usual boring stuff like hourly or half hourly bulletins. That didn't last long.
Even if you want to be 'different' you still have to comply to a certain degree if you want to attract major advertisers and presenters.
Even if you want to be 'different' you still have to comply to a certain degree if you want to attract major advertisers and presenters.