I wish they’d have their licence revoked
Isn’t that censorship
If it was a news channel it would already have been revoked, because they keep breaking Ofcom standards.
Unfortunately, they’re using the same loophole that Fox News uses in the US… “We’re an entertainment channel that covers current affairs. We are not a news channel.”
It’s staggering it works tbh, especially since their name literally has “news” in it.
E: My phone autocorrected news channel to newest channel. Oops. I hope the meaning still got through.
That’s odd. Wonder why that is allowed.
I imagine Labour are scared to go after them because it’ll be called censorship, and the Tories didn’t do anything because they thought they’d benefit from it (short-sighted, now it’s Reform getting the benefit).
Theoretically, Ofcom is independent, so the above shouldn’t be a thing, but in reality, like with Ofgem and Ofwat, I’m not sure that’s actually the case…
Personally I’d be fine with a compromise: you get to keep your licence to air, but you have to be reclassified as a news channel, as that’s clearly what you brand yourself as to the public.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world, you can still have an editorial slant. At the end of the day, Sky News has a mild right bias and Channel 4 News has a mild left bias. GB News just wouldn’t be able to get away with some of the more egregious stuff they do.
They no longer count as a broadcast channel in the UK. As they gave up(before losing).that licence.
So ofcom now has limited control.
They call themselves news but don’t follow the rules of TV news, you know, be balanced and truthful, because they say they are entertainment. The whole point of a license is to stop that kind thing. It should been long gone.
That would be a case for censorship if they reported the actual news but they don’t. They’re like fox news in the United States, they literally make things up.
Only if there’s not legitimate reason to have it revoked.
GB News has claimed a major milestone for its TV ratings as it beat BBC News Channel and Sky News for average viewership in several key slots in July.
However Press Gazette understands the total weekly reach for the BBC News Channel through July remained more than twice the size of GB News while Sky News was almost double.
This means GB News appears to be engaging fewer people in total each month but the high average viewership means their audience stay watching for longer.
Isn’t this the one that had literally zero viewers a while back
They’re useful for their live television coverage of the twelfth. And that’s it.
Twelfth?
Who the fuck are the Press Gazette?
The trade journal for the journalism industry in Britain.
