Channel profile
GB News
What GB News chose to cover, what it left out, and how its agenda compares with the rest of the roster.
How much the agenda changed
This channel keeps some regular areas of focus while changing enough to follow the daily news cycle.
Stories this channel missed
Number of times this broadcaster did not cover stories that several other channels covered.
Time spent on news stories
126h 18m of this channel's 192h analysed was identified news stories — ad breaks, weather, sport and trails count as “not news”.
Recent broadcasts
The latest broadcasts behind this channel's analysis — open one to see its annotated timeline.
Patrick Christys Tonight Late
Detectives charged 27-year-old Aisha Zaman with firearm offences after a police officer was shot in Nottingham city centre on Sunday; she was due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court and the injured officer remained in hospital in a stable condition. The government launched a resilience campaign urging the public to prepare for emergencies such as cyber attacks, supply-chain disruption, wildfires and flooding, including a nine-point Be Ready checklist. Downing Street confirmed 32 government services were down while officials addressed a critical security flaw affecting PHP software; the National Cyber Security Centre described the outage as unprecedented but said no official breaches had yet been detected.
Farage
The news bulletin reported that the government had launched a campaign to make the UK more resilient to emergencies, including cyberattacks and supply-chain disruption, with a nine-point Be Ready checklist and guidance on wildfires and flooding. It also reported that 32 government services had been offline because of a critical security flaw affecting the widely used software PHP; the National Cyber Security Centre called the outage unprecedented but said no official breaches had been detected. Britain was said to be preparing for two named storms in three days, with Storm Austin bringing amber warnings, 80mph gusts, power cuts and travel disruption to southern Britain, followed by Storm Buelow over the weekend. A US judge ordered President Donald Trump to answer questions under oath by 11 December in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC over a Panorama edit; the BBC chairman apologised over an error of judgement. The bulletin also covered the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, President Macron saying illegitimate protests would be banned after violence in France, and Keir Starmer being named a core participant in the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry, with public hearings due in December.
Patrick Christys Tonight Late
According to a Daily Telegraph report discussed in the broadcast, Russian fishing trawlers have been deployed to spy on the UK's critical undersea cables, with analysis uncovering more than 500 incidents in which Russian trawlers loitered above communications cables linking Britain with Europe and the US or followed their routes. The segment said 17 ships had been tracked over four years and one vessel had been near nine separate cables, and it discussed the vulnerability of the cables and whether the UK was doing enough to protect them.
Farage
The broadcast opened with reports that the government had approved the Jackdaw gas field, with US President Donald Trump welcoming the decision and Kemi Badenoch accusing the prime minister of delay over the approval while the prime minister called it pragmatic. The opening news reports also covered the government's acceptance of an independent report on anti-semitism in English schools, police being given more time to question two men re-arrested in an investigation into a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford, a Metropolitan Police investigation into a rape allegation against former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, and commemorations at Aberfan marking 60 years since the disaster. In the main programme, the Jackdaw decision was discussed further alongside Rosebank, North Sea taxation, investment, energy security, nuclear power and international dependence.
On screen
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Repeatedly missed categories
Categories where this broadcaster often missed stories that other channels covered.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.
Category trend (last 30 days)
How this channel's coverage changed by category over the past month.
Flagged quotes over time
Contested and charged quotes per hour of analysed airtime. Flagged quotes reflect the language this broadcaster aired, not a judgement of its accuracy.
Distinctive vocabulary
Words and phrases this channel used far more often than the rest of UK TV news over the last 30 days. Distinctive vocabulary describes word choice relative to other channels, not accuracy or bias — terms reflect the stories a channel covered as much as how it framed them.
- warm spells 20×+ more often · 24 uses
“Expect warm spells with the odd rude interruption.” Farage · Thursday 22 October 2026
- wandering 20×+ more often · 22 uses
“wandering around the streets of Britain just willy-nilly.” Patrick Christys Tonight Late · Thursday 22 October 2026
- interruption 20×+ more often · 26 uses
“Expect warm spells with the odd rude interruption.” Farage · Thursday 22 October 2026
News agenda by category
How this channel divided its coverage compared with the cross-channel average.
Timeline
This channel's topic coverage day by day — what it ran, and how much time each story got.
Thursday 22 October 2026
Topics covered
crime
Cyber Security
immigration
Immigration
politics
King Charles
immigration
Asylum Seekers
politics
Chagos Islands
crime
Grooming Gangs
politics
Reform UK
Stories missed
medium Significance
Sentencing
medium Significance
Storms
high Significance