GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

[not-bono-ever]

Need a shouty comment on UK fishing benefits from Mr C.Lions of NW1

 

[cupid_stunt]

Channel 4 has always been funded with as revenue from the word go and they were pretty contraversial from the off.

TBF, from their launch in 1982, C-4 was actually funded by ITV, who had the right to sell the airtime on C-4, but there was a sizeable a subsidy from the ITV companies. It wasn't until 1990 when a change in funding came about, and they had to start funding themselves. From 1990 to 1998 they still had a "safety net" guaranteed minimum income by ITV, should their revenue fall.

 

[equationgirl]

TBF, from their launch in 1982, C-4 was actually funded by ITV, who had the right to sell the airtime on C-4, but there was a sizeable a subsidy from the ITV companies. It wasn't until 1990 when a change in funding came about, and they had to start funding themselves. From 1990 to 1998 they still had a "safety net" guaranteed minimum income by ITV, should their revenue fall.

My bad, I was 9 at the time. Thanks for the clarification. Point 1 still stands though.

 

[skyscraper101]

TBF, from their launch in 1982, C-4 was actually funded by ITV, who had the right to sell the airtime on C-4, but there was a sizeable a subsidy from the ITV companies. It wasn't until 1990 when a change in funding came about, and they had to start funding themselves. From 1990 to 1998 they still had a "safety net" guaranteed minimum income by ITV, should their revenue fall.

Yeah I was just recently discussing how ITV used to actually plug Channel 4 shows back in the day. Like announce Brookside was starting in a few minutes on Channel 4. Seems weird now.

 

[Petcha]

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I seem to recall my favourite weatherman Tomas Schafenaker giving the actual finger to Simon McCoy when he thought he was off camera. Was priceless

 

[cupid_stunt]

I seem to recall my favourite weatherman Tomas Schafenaker giving the actual finger to Simon McCoy when he thought he was off camera. Was priceless

McCoy, "every now and then, there's always one mistake, and that was it."

He can't say that anymore.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Need a shouty comment on UK fishing benefits from Mr C.Lions of NW1

Peter File should comment on the Prince Andrew story.

Said "he done no wrong".

 

[cupid_stunt]

Coming up, we hear from our reporters from across the cunt...

 

[existentialist]

Coming up, we hear from our reporters from across the cunt...

Saboteur sound engineer: "OK, so here's what we do - any time it looks like he's about to say the word "country", switch to another stream after the first syllable, or, y'know, wiggle a plug a bit... He'll never realise"

 

[Storm Fox]

WTF:

 

[two sheds]

Almost as if he doesn't understand the market system

 

[glitch hiker]

Surely if it were free, they wouldn't need advertising!

Aside from their studio looking like shit flat, I'm not seeing enough flags.

 

[Cerv]

Coming up, we hear from our reporters from across the cunt...

what on earth is that wallpaper?

 

[Raheem]

My ten year-old son just put GB News on and then walked off!

 

[belboid]

My ten year-old son just put GB News on and then walked off!

he wants to punish you

 

[brogdale]

Strong contribution from Howfu

 

[DaveCinzano]

My ten year-old son just put GB News on and then walked off!

Everyone's a critic

 

[brogdale]

Everyone's a critic

There was me reading that as Raheem 's kid leaving the job.

 

[marty21]

Seen it referred to as Wetherspoons TV.

Tbf to 'spoons , they have better sound and lighting , and arguably, better carpets .

 

[brogdale]

'kinnel, laughs aside, this is genuinely tragic....

 

[existentialist]

'kinnel, laughs aside, this is genuinely tragic....

"OK, he's going for the picture, take the server offline on my count...3...2...1. Excellent. And now, back up...no, wait until he scrolls into his porn collection..."

 

[glitch hiker]

So now we know the real reason Debenhams went bust. They had to use their furnishings department to host GB News

 

[Doodler]

I have been waiting for them ( GB News ) to show Gammons sat eating a full English while having a pint, at 9 in the morning, in Wetherspoons, this morning, while showing adverts to join the Armed Forces and shoot people and Union Jacks everywhere on the walls. No doubt there has been HP Sauce adverts on every ten minutes.

People would watch that. No one wants to watch you eating your 'smashed' avocado on toast and flipping through the Guardian on your iPad.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Apparently Neil is promising to address the advertiser boycott on his show tonight, and point out his show has beaten BBC News and Sky News in the ratings in its timeslot the last three nights.

Hardly a fair comparison, when both BBC News and Sky News are broadcasting actual news at that time, rather than a political discussion show.

I guess he'll not be comparing his ratings with those of 'Peston' or 'Question Time'.

 

[tim]

Nobody expected the Magnificent Seven to lash out with the ginger beer.

 

[steveo87]

Nobody expected the Magnificent Seven to lash out with the ginger beer.

See, since all this started, for me it's all been about that word I can't say or spell (the German one about taking delight of other people's misery), but this one genuinely made me laugh harder than I have for weeks.

 

[cupid_stunt]

That 'GBNews Fails' twitter account had just over 1k followers yesterday morning, it's over 26k now, which seems fairly impressive growth.

They have doubled that to over 52k in under 12 hours.

Wouldn't it be funny if they over-take the 282k followers that GBH News has built up over months?

Come on everyone let's encourage people to follow https://twitter.com/GBNewsFails. and make it so.

 

[existentialist]

They have doubled that to over 52k in under 12 hours.

Wouldn't it be funny if they over-take the 282k followers that GBH News has built up over months?

Come on everyone let's encourage people to follow https://twitter.com/GBNewsFails. and make it so.

Already there

 

[existentialist]

SSG: "OK, with this one, imma going to...no, hang on, let's just let her fuck this one up herself - she goes amusingly vacant when shit goes down. But can we get the lighting up high, and the monitor down low, to get us that heavy-lidded 'coked-it-a-bit-hard-last-night' look? Excellent, muahahaha"

 

[existentialist]

sudo /usr/local/bin/iptables_block_zoom_traffic --seconds=5

"So good, I wrote a script"