GB News viewing figures overtake BBC for the first time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/01/gb-news-overtakes-bbc-for-the-first-time/#:~:text=GB%20News%20has%20overtaken%20the,just%20after%20its%20fourth%20birthday.
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Oh blimey!
I’d always thought of GBNews as bit of a tin pot station that no-one took seriously
GBNews needs to be shut down for simply being a propaganda channel for ReformUK.
BBC News has lost trust of the population but ITV News is the most balanced news channel in UK right now.
Kind of amazed anyone watches any tv news channels.
GB News is basically the UK’s version of Fox News. Look what Fox News has done to America. We are fucked
I’ve never watched GB News but the quality of BBC’s journalism both on TV and in articles has plummeted over the years.
When you read an old BBC article it’s shocking how detailed and thorough it is in comparison. There are so many examples now where the BBC omits random details (often important ones) for no reason.
You can still get odds of 5 to 2 on Farage being next PM, might as well make hay while the sun shines.
GB News is just a cash dump for right wing billionaires,
2021, -2.9million. Revenue, 0
2022, -31million. Revenue, 3.6million
2023, -42.4million. Revenue, 6.6million
2024, -33.4million. Revenue, 15.7million
They keep losing millions every year while only seeing growth in revenue from online ads
[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339/filing-history](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339/filing-history)
BBC hosting every GB News personality on their political programmes may have exacerbated this problem, me thinks.
Misleading headline as usual from the NigelGraph.
GB News’ viewing figures have overtaken *BBC News’* viewing figures (and Sky News).
Not “the BBC”, certainly not BBC One or Two.
This is bollocks – see the actual poll data and just the BBC News @ 6 gets 3.5 million viewers vs tens of thousands for all GBNews shows in total…
[https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/](https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/)
And how Reddit mocked it ‘no one watches’
Well…!
There’s a very easy way to beat the growth of extremist groups: democracy.
If people want benefits cut and immigrants out? Do that. Then suddenly there aren’t angry folks screaming about stuff.
All our issues stem from a Government that can’t demonstrate it listens to anyone.
What I’ve noticed is that GB News seems to be one of the few channels that you can view without having any form of TV subscription (on LG tvs anyway), this probably contributes to that.
We need to learn from this.
Maybe the country is even further right than I thought. I quite like some of the Talk TV presenters as they seem rational and intelligent. Some of them are barking mad.
GB News however struck me as a little too right for my liking.
The people are making the opinions clear by voting in the polls, with their wallets, with their viewing habits.
Trying to shut down channels and media like this will only fuel even further right parties than Reform.
You can’t contain a problem by shutting down access to media sources like these.
Well done BBC in courting populist shysters like Frog face.
Well done British people for falling for it again. You dumb cunts.
> The latest data show GB News pulled in an average audience of 80,600 across each day in July. That was ahead of BBC News on 78,700 and 67,000 for Sky News.
TLDR News gets around 100k views for each of their videos on YouTube. Sure there’s the global audience for YouTube versus TV but this is more a sign that people who would normally be BBC News’ demographic are getting their news from other sources like YouTube whilst those still tuning in to 24 hour news channels on TV are much more likely to want something like GB News.
Well they beat the BBC news *channel* presumably, not the actual news broadcast proper. As who tunes into that on the regular. GB news is “entertainment” so probably beats all sorts.
This far-right tabloid is awful with the headlines.
It’s fucked by I’ll benefit from this. Reform are going to reduce taxes on high earners, cut the NHS to shreds and deregulate everything.
People with lots of money (me) basically will be fine.
The people voting for them are beyond fucked.
Think they’ve been creative with these figures. If you [look at the official stats on Barb](https://www.barb.co.uk/monthly-viewing/) in a month (which is a better measure of popularity):
GB News 3.7m
SKY News 8.3m
BBC News 9.9m
This suggests GB News prob has a loyal following while a broader audience dips into Sky and BBC. Which makes sense.
Still – quite an achievement for GB News. And problematic when it’s filled with bias and rage
I’m going to say the unpopular opinion.
People are turning away from the BBC because it’s clear to see that it has a bias that isn’t acknowledged.
People like GB News more because it’s clear what the presenters and news reporters think.
They’re both biased in their own ways, but GB News doesn’t hide this fact.
Viewers don’t like being lied to or manipulated, and they especially don’t like it when that motive is hidden.
Doesn’t surprise me, TV is almost 100% boomer focused now and when boomers want news they want a right wing slant.
I’m noticing that the older generation – the only ones left who watch and believe TV – are becoming increasingly racist. Even ones that don’t watch GB News.
Probably because the BBC refuses to report on the massive illegal immigration problems the UK has.
We have more racists than any time previously. Yes, we know.
This country is so fucked, if this trend continues into the next election I’m bailing for the EU
Bit random but this just reminded me, I was on a high dependency unit for a few weeks last autumn.
The guy across from me watched GB news like 8 hours a day…loudly…getting worked up by whatever they were going on about…when he had visitors, mainly his wife, he would rant about immigrants and how the country is not what it used to be.
The guy was fucking dieing, he could barely breathe half the time, they were gradually stopping medical interventions and increasing his palliative meds yet he spends most of his time in his last few days??? He spends a large portion of his time with his family on this???
I mean I guess you don’t know what you’d do in someone else’s shoes but still…