GB News gets a ratings drubbing from the Welsh language PAW Patrol – 9 funniest pupdates

In ‘What a shocker’ news of the day, viewing figures for the two-week-old anti-woke news channel, GB News, have – to use a technical term – tanked.

GB News viewing figures week two update as ratings PLUMMET amid 'establishment' rivalryhttps://t.co/e7oULmX84w pic.twitter.com/Gy0SwWPMe7

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) June 25, 2021

Its best-performing show is the Great British Breakfast at 32,000, though it’s possible that viewers tune in expecting to see Gordon Ramsay. The BBC’s rival breakfast show, however, gets more than a million viewers, and News at Ten pulls in 3.4 million.

GB News audience figures fall through the floor. Max ratings for GB News are just 32k. As a comparison BBC News at 10 figures stand at 3.6 million. Like the Alba Party fiasco this shows the Culture War bullshit from Twitter does not translate to real lifehttps://t.co/bPpOh8HcC2

— NeilMackay (@NeilMackay) June 26, 2021

What really puts the channels plummeting figures into perspective, however, is by comparison to the Welsh language channel, S4C, on which long-running soap, Pobol y Cwm has attracted 44,000 viewers and – better still, Patrol Pawennau – PAW Patrol – pulled in 161,000.

GB News gets just a fifth as many viewers as kids’ cartoon Paw Patrol……in Welsh. https://t.co/kS5Syd9gS3

— David Leask (@LeaskyHT) June 27, 2021

It must all be a little awkward for the GB News chearleaders, who have been boasting about its early rating successes, which appear to have had a curiosity boost.

To @darrengrimes_ remember claiming the BBC felt threatened by GB News; anything to say now its been revealed the latter had fewer viewers than the Welsh language version of Paw Patrol?

— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) June 27, 2021

Twitter couldn’t resist having a pop at their already burst bubble.

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No wonder Andrew Neil has gone on that extended holiday.

GB News is drawing in five times fewer viewers than Patrol Pawennau, the Welsh language version of Paw Patrol.https://t.co/yeEtFb0h8O

— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 27, 2021

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How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/2kPBDleynu

— Pip (@pipmadeley) June 27, 2021

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Welsh-language Paw Patrol: 161,000 viewers
GB News: 32,000 viewers.

I mean that's ruff.https://t.co/62EO2l3KHR

— Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) June 27, 2021

4.

Shocked to discover that a news channel predicated on being a news channel for the sort of people who don't actually watch the news has somehow failed. https://t.co/h8eifd2ckO

— Beau (@DrBeauBeaumont) June 27, 2021

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GB NEWS CAN’T EVEN MANAGE TO MUSTER PAW RATINGS pic.twitter.com/K01Dy0XGwH

— Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra (@FubsyShabaroon) June 27, 2021

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To be fair, the Welsh version of Paw Patrol is an absolute Bangor https://t.co/nUb7ECNdNc

— Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) June 27, 2021

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Seems very unfair to me to compare GB News ratings with programming of a completely different type, it needs to be like for like, how can you possibly expect it to compete with Paw Patrol in Welsh.

— Kenny Stewart (@Kenny__Stewart) June 27, 2021

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Makes sense. There’s significantly more acutely reported current affairs content in Paw Patrol

— Mark🐰#DoGooder (@Mark_G66) June 27, 2021

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BREAKING: GB News brands Paw Patrol ‘woke’, ‘leftist’ and ‘Marxist’ after the welsh language version of the kids’ show trounces them in the viewing ratings

— Gladstone (@shane_gladstone) June 27, 2021

Peter Sketch put the ratings into perspective.

I too would rather watch Paw Patrol in Welsh than GB News. And I don't have any kids. And don't speak Welsh.

— Peter Sketch (@petersketch) June 27, 2021

Perhaps they can turn it all around by being proactive.

Surely the solution here is obvious – get the dog characters off Paw Patrol to present on GB News (in Welsh). Higher ratings and would increase the channel’s credibility – win-win! https://t.co/1jgc6aLcJR

— Ollie Walker (@ollie_walker) June 27, 2021

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