krtek a houby
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GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
They are now planning to launch nationwide on DAB radio.
radiotoday.co.uk
GB News Radio to launch on Digital One nationwide
GB News Radio is planning to launch on Digital One in July.
radiotoday.co.uk
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
It's all getting too exciting now.
www.theguardian.com
I do know at least one person (a colleague) who sounds like he's planning on watching.
How GB News is bringing US-style opinionated TV news to the UK
New channel is keen to reject comparisons with Fox News despite positioning itself as ‘anti-woke’
I do know at least one person (a colleague) who sounds like he's planning on watching.
My inclination with this is to ignore it, block them on social media, don't retweet their manufactured outrage, don't discuss them on Urban, and if anyone in real life mentions it just stare at them blankly like they've tried to discuss an obscure piece of Thai cinema.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Great Ballbags Network.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Brillovision are going to sue the BBC for trying to shut them out. Sadly, I was shut out from discovering more by the Telegraph paywall.
BBC accused of attempting to shut out GB News at 11th-hour
BBC accused of attempting to shut out GB News at 11th-hour
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
The last jamon sat alone in the room, there was a knock on the door.
Crank Lot's Half Hour
Honestly, what a line up. Not a clue among them. Yet they'll spend the entire evening whining about freedom.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
What the fuck is going on here?? 
E2A: oh, wait, it's not the news desk, it's their kitchen 
Still think just having a tea set in one bit and then leaving the others empty is odd, so I'm not totally climbing down from this
E2A: oh, wait, it's not the news desk, it's their kitchen
Still think just having a tea set in one bit and then leaving the others empty is odd, so I'm not totally climbing down from this
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
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Raheem
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Watching a repeat of the launch show. Looks extremely cheap. A long rambling monologue from Brillopad to a standard definition camera, audio out-of-synch. Now introducing their star talent, starting with that one off the Apprentice who's not Katie Hopkins. Unbelievably dull. Really doubt this is going to turn into a phenomenon.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Thank you for watching.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
So the normal BBC isn't biaised?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Biased news already is normalised.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Apparently the audio was out of sync for the launch program across all platforms and it looked blurry.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
The Guardian is not keen.
www.theguardian.com
GB News review – Andrew Neil’s alternative BBC? Utterly deadly stuff
The ‘anti-woke’ news channel had Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar, but no Piers Morgan – and the opening night felt like the furthest thing from appointment TV imaginable. I give it a year
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
The Guardian is not keen.
GB News review – Andrew Neil’s alternative BBC? Utterly deadly stuff
The ‘anti-woke’ news channel had Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar, but no Piers Morgan – and the opening night felt like the furthest thing from appointment TV imaginable. I give it a year
Shocked.
It’s also absolutely irrelevant what the other news outlets think of it
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Reading that review does remind one of the desperate need for a quality, fun, news alternative both in "print" and broadcast.The Guardian is not keen.
GB News review – Andrew Neil’s alternative BBC? Utterly deadly stuff
The ‘anti-woke’ news channel had Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar, but no Piers Morgan – and the opening night felt like the furthest thing from appointment TV imaginable. I give it a year
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Fuzzy, poor syncing and looking like it was produced in a bedroom by a teenager on YouTube apart the thing that stuck me most was how dated the content appeared. Day one seemed to have been various individuals popping up to grind the specific axe that they’ve been grinding across the media for ages. Rather than a news channel it seemed to be a run through of complaints of the last period. It was also aggressively polemical rather than an attempt to give the impression that it would delve into a subject.
As such it felt like a weird historical account of what’s happened rather than news based or of now.
As such it felt like a weird historical account of what’s happened rather than news based or of now.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Shit on the lot of them. Still amazed at how much publicity and hype they've garnered.
not a trot
Well-Known Member
Does it do a decent weather forecast ?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Looked like the ITV weather broadcast over YouTube
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
For the 1950s, yes.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Well, I've dipped in, and I think it's absolutely brilliant. 
Brilliantly shit, an absolute fucking shambles, fucking hell I thought Taunton TV* was amateurish back in the days, but compared to this lot they were a shinning beacon of professionalism!
* Taunton TV was part of the original 'channel 6 experimental local TV plan' back in the late 90's and staggered on for a couple of years, which is probably longer than GB News will manage.
Forgetting Andrew Neil being out of sync last night, the breakfast show is totally embarrassing, three presenters constantly talking over each other, occasionally bringing a fourth to their breakfast bar for no apparent reason, and who has a much lower sound level. The 3 or 4 of them basically just waffle, there's no substance to it at all, and nothing you could describe as being news as such.
Not even getting sound levels right in the studio didn't bode well for when they went live to some of their regional reporters, which you simply couldn't hear without turning up the volume, before having to turn it down again when someone in the studio spoke. Surely, they could get it right with pre-recorded inserts? Nope! Even a pre-recorded interview with Priti Patel had similar low sound levels.
As well as the sound levels being all over the place, and often with added echo for some reason, the picture quality is dreadful too.
For a channel that has been in planning for about a year, recruiting since the end of 2020, and originally due to launch in March, it's amazing they stumbled on air in such a technically inept manner.
Sure they may iron out the technical side of things, but that's only a small part of their problems, the breakfast show hosts are so amateurish, and they simply don't work together, they have little material to work with, they don't even have a proper news bulletin to kick off the hour, which at least would give them something to reference, it's mainly just inane waffle, which for some reason seems to make them laugh, I can only assume as a result of nervous embarrassment. They have had a couple of live guests on, but there was little effort in actually interviewing them as such.
Even the set is shit, it's so dark and gloomy, I was expecting some sort of modern funky back-drop, bright & colourful, using red, white & blue - yet we got what looks like corrugated iron painted black, with a blue light appearing in a gap between the sheets of corrugated iron. WTF?
It is basically shit on so many levels.
Brilliantly shit, an absolute fucking shambles, fucking hell I thought Taunton TV* was amateurish back in the days, but compared to this lot they were a shinning beacon of professionalism!
* Taunton TV was part of the original 'channel 6 experimental local TV plan' back in the late 90's and staggered on for a couple of years, which is probably longer than GB News will manage.
Forgetting Andrew Neil being out of sync last night, the breakfast show is totally embarrassing, three presenters constantly talking over each other, occasionally bringing a fourth to their breakfast bar for no apparent reason, and who has a much lower sound level. The 3 or 4 of them basically just waffle, there's no substance to it at all, and nothing you could describe as being news as such.
Not even getting sound levels right in the studio didn't bode well for when they went live to some of their regional reporters, which you simply couldn't hear without turning up the volume, before having to turn it down again when someone in the studio spoke. Surely, they could get it right with pre-recorded inserts? Nope! Even a pre-recorded interview with Priti Patel had similar low sound levels.
As well as the sound levels being all over the place, and often with added echo for some reason, the picture quality is dreadful too.
For a channel that has been in planning for about a year, recruiting since the end of 2020, and originally due to launch in March, it's amazing they stumbled on air in such a technically inept manner.
Sure they may iron out the technical side of things, but that's only a small part of their problems, the breakfast show hosts are so amateurish, and they simply don't work together, they have little material to work with, they don't even have a proper news bulletin to kick off the hour, which at least would give them something to reference, it's mainly just inane waffle, which for some reason seems to make them laugh, I can only assume as a result of nervous embarrassment. They have had a couple of live guests on, but there was little effort in actually interviewing them as such.
Even the set is shit, it's so dark and gloomy, I was expecting some sort of modern funky back-drop, bright & colourful, using red, white & blue - yet we got what looks like corrugated iron painted black, with a blue light appearing in a gap between the sheets of corrugated iron. WTF?
It is basically shit on so many levels.
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