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

[8ball]

I give it 3 months before it gets renamed to Spiked!TV

Are any of them not on there?

 

[Fedayn]

GB News is fast becoming the broadcasting wing of spiked/spikedonline. Over the past 24 hours we've had James Heartfield, Andrew Doyle (who has a regular show) Joanna Williams, Fraser Myers. GB News pet conteoversialists clearly

And tonight yet another wee outing for the spiked tribe... Their guru Frank Furedi, Tom Slater and Rob Lyons...... In house controversialist cunts...

 

[eatmorecheese]

Maybe this is good. Maybe this self-exposes how intellectually, morally and practically bankrupt this culture war is to to even their own nutter viewers. The emperor is fucking naked.

It'll be thesis fodder soon.

 

[weltweit]

I can watch TV, and BBC News 24 on my broadband connection, but not GB News, trying to watch GBN is like being back in dialup days, spooling spooling, a bit of video back to spooling.

I don't know exactly what they are doing wrong but they are doing something wrong that is certain.

Still, didn't really want to watch it anyhow so no loss.

 

[Chilli.s]

o watch GBN is like being back in dialup days

I suspect that is the look they're going for

 

[spitfire]

I can watch TV, and BBC News 24 on my broadband connection, but not GB News, trying to watch GBN is like being back in dialup days, spooling spooling, a bit of video back to spooling.

I don't know exactly what they are doing wrong but they are doing something wrong that is certain.

Still, didn't really want to watch it anyhow so no loss.

Gonna put forward a theory on this. I had the experience of organising a leased line broadband internet connection to a large building once. Leased line is proper grown up commercial level internet, straight from the local exchange. We had to wait 18 months and there was no way of skipping the queue. Can't remember how long ago GBN was announced but it wasn't that long. If it is in a commercial building it may have commercial level internet already but upload broadcast level? Could be wrong but it's a possibility.

Might just have a shit IT team.

 

[existentialist]

Gonna put forward a theory on this. I had the experience of organising a leased line broadband internet connection to a large building once. Leased line is proper grown up commercial level internet, straight from the local exchange. We had to wait 18 months and there was no way of skipping the queue. Can't remember how long ago GBN was announced but it wasn't that long. If it is in a commercial building it may have commercial level internet already but upload broadcast level? Could be wrong but it's a possibility.

Might just have a shit IT team.

My bet is that someone decided to just sort out a bunch of ADSL lines and hoped that would be OK.

 

[spitfire]

My bet is that someone decided to just sort out a bunch of ADSL lines and hoped that would be OK.

I wouldn't take that bet as I bet you're right!

 

[tim]

I can watch TV, and BBC News 24 on my broadband connection, but not GB News, trying to watch GBN is like being back in dialup days,

Good evening Operator can I book a connection to the GBBrillos televisual broadcast between 8 pm and 9 pm on Tuesday fortnight. I have already forwarded the relevant ration coupons to the Ministry of Crafty Wanks.

 

[spitfire]

My bet is that someone decided to just sort out a bunch of ADSL lines and hoped that would be OK.

Someone: Mediability selected by GB News to build its HQ in Britain - Mediability

"Oh the ADSL will do for now Sven, we'll get the big connection in soon, surely can't take long in 21st century Britain."

 

[elbows]

They probably subcontracted it to Mediainability.

 

[tim]

Someone: Mediability selected by GB News to build its HQ in Britain - Mediability

"Oh the ADSL will do for now Sven, we'll get the big connection in soon, surely can't take long in 21st century Britain."

Knut A. Andersen, CCO in Fonn Group, says:


“We are of course very proud to play a key role in the birth of a 24/7 news channel in the UK market. Conceptually, we believe GB News will set a new global course on operating models for news channels.”

Sadly, Knut didn't waffle on about Brillo-jeebies turning the tide of British Broadcasting

 

[Dogsauce]

Might just have a shit IT team deep cover woke sabotage squad

FTFY.

 

[tim]

Just been looking at the comments core audience is raging threatening to stop watching . I'm not aware of any presenters on any other news stations taking the knee , so GB news by default is now the official taking the knee station.

After wobbling in their defence of free speech, they've finally caved in to the baying mob.



Knees up GBNews

 

[glitch hiker]

classic Gbeebies

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[elbows]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

It does suggest that the National U75 Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association who are supposed to be watching the channel on our behalf have been sloping off

 

[editor]

LOL

Business editor Liam Halligan and former Labour MP Gloria De Piero attracted no measurable audience to their show between 1pm and 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon. During the same timeslot the BBC News channel attracted 62,000 viewers, while Sky News had 50,000 people watching.

GB News’ audience again briefly dipped to zero at 5pm, during a late-afternoon programme co-hosted by ex-BBC presenter Simon McCoy and former Ukip spokesperson Alex Phillips.

GB News shows attracted zero viewers after boycott over taking the knee

Channel label Guto Harri’s on-air gesture in solidarity against racist abuse suffered by the England team ‘unacceptable’

www.theguardian.com

 

[bemused]

Has the anti cancel culture news channel nobly battling online woke mobs cancelled one of the presenters after pressure from an online mob?

 

[steveseagull]

Classic case of audience not happy because the channel is not extreme enough for their tastes. This is priceless.

 

[steveseagull]

I would like to think than a channel like this would be brought down by the state. But they certainly do not need any intervention.

 

[Raheem]

If they're serious about this, they need to get rid of Andrew Kneel.

 

[krtek a houby]

If they're serious about this, they need to get rid of Andrew Kneel.

Take the Neil

 

[Storm Fox]

classic Gbeebies

I don't get this, I clicked through to the original GBN tweet, they posted a reply at the same time as the first post, but they are contradictory, what's going on?
Two people with access to the twitter account with opposing views???

 

[cupid_stunt]

This bit made me chuckle.

Oliver’s plea for open debate and tolerance had limited impact and he was then bombarded with even more negative messages from GB News viewers pledging to boycott the channel. This included suggestions that GB News should feature itself on the channel’s nightly “woke watch” segment which highlights incidents perceived to be examples of preposterous behaviour on “culture war” issues.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

LOL

This was the bit that surprised me the most.

Andrew Neil, the face of GB News and chair of its board, told viewers earlier that he was taking leave after just two weeks on air after what he described as a “rocky start” but would return “before the summer is out”. The presenter is understood to have gone on holiday to his main residence in the south of France but there is no public return date for his flagship 8pm show.

A cunt who loves Great Britain so much that his main residence is in France.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

This is going to be like when Farage left UKIP isn't it? Fashy but establishmenty enough elder statesman who offered the mirage of respectability fucks off. And the likes of Paul Watson and Count Dankula turn up to fill the void.

 

[cupid_stunt]

A cunt who loves Great Britain so much that his main residence is in France.

And, Chairman of a channel mainly financed with American & Saudi money, who's CEO is Australian, and main peak time presenter is a Kiwi.

 

[cupid_stunt]

This is going to be like when Farage left UKIP isn't it? Fashy but establishmenty enough elder statesman who offered the mirage of respectability fucks off. And the likes of Paul Watson and Count Dankula turn up to fill the void.

I do wonder if Murdoch is waiting in the wings ready to buy it up for peanuts, close it down and relaunch it as his previously planned evenings only 'News UK' channel, use the daytime hours for a general entertainment channel (directly run or just hire out the airtime), with tele-shopping overnight.