GB News wins award for Best News Channel for 4th year running

It is a Thread about an award that GB News didn't actually win.
Does accuracy not matter, when discussing this popular channel?

Maremia

Sky and BBC news are watched more than GB news so wondering how they have 'won'. Was the vote only on the GB programme? I didn't have access to a vote and nor did others I know who also don't watch GB news.

Awards are highly subjective whether the decisions are made by industry judges or the public but at least with a panel of judges one might assume there's discussion, debate and consensus.

Voting in the hands of the public is a lottery. Boaty McBoatface comes to mind. And Brexit. And even Reform who split the right wing vote in 2024 and put Labour into power with a massive seat majority on fewer votes that they received in 2019.

Strictly Come Dancing? Is it really won by the best dancer? In 2025, should Amber Davies and Lewis Cope have been in a dance off against one another? Was the overall winner Karen Carney really a better dancer than Davies (or Cope) or was it because people didn’t take to Davies because she’s a professional dancer?

To be fair, the programme that won the TRIC news award was not the nightly Farage show although he did win best new presenter two years in a row, which is surprising when we have such quality presenters on other channels. TRIC have now ditched that category and I wonder why? Might they have received some ridicule for that?

2023 'It's a disgrace!' Nigel Farage slams TRIC Awards as it 'DELETES' tweet announcing him winner of News Presenter of the Year - after he was booed and heckled by media industry audience during acceptance speech.

www.dailymail.com/news/article-12242717/Farage-slams-TRIC-Awards-DELETES-tweet-announcing-winner-News-Presenter-Year.html

It’s fair to discuss the channel (as that what’s in the thread title) and to point out that GB News is a propaganda channel for the right and particularly Reform. What else can it be when its owned by Paul Marshall? You can’t argue that’s not the case when it broadcasts regular shows from Farage, Lee Anderson and Matt Goodwin. I don’t know of any other news channels which hosts regular shows from MPs and wannabe MPs.

A Parliamentary career can be short so I doubt many would have objections to those with valuable skills doing a small amount of work to keep those skills up to date so long as their job as MP takes priority.

Farage is paid £3,000+ an hour for his work for loss-making GB News - income that he consistently failed to declare on the Member’s Register. “Man of the people” who a few weeks ago was driving around with “plumber” Rob Kenyon, both complaining that £8 an hour was far too much to pay to an apprentice.

No, AGAA4 but GB news regularly reminds people to vote.

There is a huge campaign around it.
They have links and QR codes everywhere. They spend air time on it and send out reminders daily (- and more than dally towards the end of voting period) to anyone who they have contact details of.

NotSpaghetti

No, AGAA4 but GB news regularly reminds people to vote.

There is a huge campaign around it.
They have links and QR codes everywhere. They spend air time on it and send out reminders daily (- and more than dally towards the end of voting period) to anyone who they have contact details of.

Thanks. That explains a lot.

I am non partisan but it does strike me as 'news' for the angry, home-owning working class. It has tapped into the less educated labyrinths of British society and doing rather well it seems ;)

Not my cup of sencha, daaarling.

Oreo

Is the heat affecting judgement on here? This is/was a lighthearted thread about posters being pleased that GB News is doing well, and the presenters and programmes they enjoy on it.
The lead ballon of the ‘worthy’ soon descended on it as usual.

GB news is not doing well. It is running at a loss owing thousands to it's parent company and others.

By doing well I mean that it’s gone from strength to strength in the number of viewers.😃

Tallis

I am non partisan but it does strike me as 'news' for the angry, home-owning working class. It has tapped into the less educated labyrinths of British society and doing rather well it seems ;)

Not my cup of sencha, daaarling.

Blimey!
That’s non partisan is it?😂

This is/was a lighthearted thread about posters being pleased that GB News is doing well, and the presenters and programmes they enjoy on it.

Was it?

I am so heartened I am and never have been a 'lefty'!

NotSpaghetti

^This is/was a lighthearted thread about posters being pleased that GB News is doing well, and the presenters and programmes they enjoy on it.^

Was it?

I think it was the third annual attempt at a GB News fans gloat. But Hey Ho, these things don’t always work out how one intends.

I don’t think that a thread about a well known right-wing television programme would ever be “lighthearted” on a discussion forum.
Provocative rather than lighthearted perhaps, as it has shown to be.

This is/was a lighthearted thread about posters being pleased that GB News is doing well, and the presenters and programmes they enjoy on it.

The thread title was GB News wins award for Best News Channel for 4th year running,
OP left a statement after that:
I say well done GB News. 👏👏👏👏

Obviously Primrose is feeling light hearted about it but I see no reason why we can't discuss the actual award.
And now we know that it's not even correct.

I see no invitation to discuss what people like about it and which presenters etc - though obviously that seems fine to me. It is a chatty sort of thread in my opinion.

Farzanah

I don’t think that a thread about a well known right-wing television programme would ever be “lighthearted” on a discussion forum.
Provocative rather than lighthearted perhaps, as it has shown to be.

There was nothing provocative in the title of the thread and why shouldn’t it be deemed lighthearted? It isn’t a serious political discussion it’s talking about a channel we like ( or don’t like in some cases) but it always amazes me how much posters who don’t like it resent it even being there at all.Or how much they claim to know about it since they don’t ever watch it.
There’s so much intolerance, even on a thread about a tv programme/ channel .🤔

There was something inherently provocative in titling a thread which was inaccurate in what it was praising Oreo, there’s no getting away from that. Had the thread title been accurate, the thread would have died long ago I suspect.

I think that was just an unfortunate mistake is all Casdon

The best move would have been to change the title, unless of course heated discussion is the aim though Oreo. Its been interesting, anyway.

"it always amazes me how much posters who don’t like it resent it even being there at all" Oreo

I recent it being called a news channel because IMO it isn't a "news channel" it's a propaganda channel. What amazes me is that it is allowed by Ofcom to call itself a news channel. Despite being sanctioned on numerous occasions for breaking the code of conduct with many of those sanctions being considered "significant" Ofcom still hasn't removed it's licence and a fine of £100k in October 2024, is peanuts for a company that clearly doesn't need to make a profit as it's made a loss of nearly £150 million since it started.

It's strange that the company persists despite the economic losses.
There must be something else the owners gain, that make up for that.
What could that be? 🤔

Duh, "resent" not "recent" !!

Who owns GB news and is prepared to run it at a loss?

Sir Paul Marshall, right winger with Christian Nationalist tendencies, pro Brexit, anti woke and has money to burn.
Legatum, a private investment firm for billionaires based in Dubai. the main investors are:
Christopher Chandler a billionaire from NZ who made millions asset stripping in Russia during the 90's and who is rumoured to have links to Putin.
Mark Stoleson, here's a quote of what he said about GB news if you think it is unbiased and impartial,
" GB News will provide an opportunity to “change the status quo”, “help shift the national conversation” and demonstrate that “Britain has once again found her voice”.
Alan McCormick, the well known climate change denier with strong financial links to the coal and oil industry
Philip Vassiliou, Dubai based and again with links to fossil fuel energy companies especially UAE

OH, it's of note that the only Legatum investor born in the UK is AMc and he now lives in Dubai.

Let your imagination run wild, what do they want from financing GB news? Answers on an energy bill please written in oil.

None of those foreign owners of GB news have the good of the British people in mind.
Willing to run the programme at a loss? Something worrying about this.