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
59h 26m 40s of this channel's 88h 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.
New: The Camilla Tominey Show...
The police watchdog reported that a Volkswagen Passat involved in a fatal crash near Middlesbrough was believed to be using cloned number plates; the car had been in a police pursuit that was abandoned before it entered the A66 on the wrong side and collided with a police vehicle, killing two officers and five young men. PC Clough's family described him as a hero, and Cleveland Police's chief constable paid tribute. President Zelensky dismissed calls for elections in Ukraine, saying a wartime vote could divide and destroy the country, while Russia withdrew its ambassador to the UK with no replacement announced. A new scheme confining serious sexual and violent offenders to small areas after prison release is to launch in October, and English mayors are to receive new powers to overrule local councils on major planning decisions.
New: The Saturday Five Extra
The broadcast opened with a debate over whether politicians should be paid more, prompted by a Guardian report that MPs had accepted nearly £400,000 of hospitality and concert tickets. Panellists discussed the potential for higher salaries to attract better candidates and reduce reliance on freebies, with disagreement over whether pay increases would improve governance or simply reward mediocrity. The discussion also referenced the earlier 2024 controversy over gifts to the prime minister.
New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late...
The programme reviewed Saturday's newspaper front pages, leading with reports that Meghan Markle is in advanced talks to join the cast of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series The Gentleman, with several papers playing on the title. The Daily Express led with an account from a French mother living near migrant launch sites, who said villagers are afraid after migrants moved in and set up another site, with CCTV showing people crossing her property and police saying they can act only if migrants are caught on her land.
New: Lee Anderson's Real World
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the inaugural National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism that the day shows the country stands with them and pledged to consult victims about creating a permanent national memorial. Prince Harry and six other high-profile figures were ordered to make an initial payment of £9.5 million to the Daily Mail's publisher after losing their High Court privacy case; a former police chief said security for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their return to the UK could cost millions, with their plan to move back now revealed. Footage showed French police under attack while intercepting a migrant boat, with officers using spray and deflating a dinghy; a new elite French police unit has stopped 12 taxi boats as part of the £662 million UK-France deal, which Kemi Badenoch criticised as not value for money, claiming the Labour government stopped the Rwanda deterrent.
On screen
Stills are sampled automatically at 60-second intervals. Where shown, the still is the nearest available frame from the relevant broadcast segment and is included to show what was on screen during that part of the broadcast. A still may not correspond to the exact second of a quoted phrase.
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.
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 · 47 uses
“Expect warm spells with the odd rude interruption.” New: The Saturday Five Extra · Saturday 22 August 2026
- nonsense 20×+ more often · 68 uses
“because they see through the nonsense.” New: The Camilla Tominey Show... · Sunday 23 August 2026
- rude 20×+ more often · 56 uses
“It is rude.” New: The Saturday Five Extra · Saturday 22 August 2026
- bloke 20×+ more often · 33 uses
“would sympathise with the bloke” New: The Camilla Tominey Show... · Sunday 23 August 2026
- voices heard 20×+ more often · 20 uses
“they're people who need to have their voices heard.” New: The Camilla Tominey Show... · Sunday 23 August 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.
Monday 24 August 2026
Topics covered
No topics recorded for this channel on this date.
Stories missed
No coverage gaps for this channel on this date.