New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

An old timey actor with an amateur opinion to join the old timey darts player

I remember when Christopher Biggins was cool...

Well...maybe not.

Biggins? Lmfao

And yet it's still tanking, Presenters taking extended "holidays" and the only guests they seem to be able or want to book are people who are anti semitic, racists, wife beaters etc

No. It demonstrates an exception to the rule. It's like Candace Owens or Dan Bongino shilling for the racist Donald Trump.

Nail meets head

Infamy, infamy, they all have it in for me. No wait, that was Kenneth Williams.

I dunno why some GB News are lofting Biggins as an example of how GBNews definitely isn't homophobic and how Mercy as a presenter means they can't be racist.

Its the literal example of "I cant be racist I have one black friend".

And also ignores gay people can be homophobic and black people racist.

Jaysus I could swear I read this exact post before. You remind me of someone.

Eskimo is Anne? Ah funny! 😂

Have a look at stuff like the Blindboy thread going round and you will easily see how much of a lie that is

That last paragraph is so incredibly daft. So LGBT people vote Tory because Johnson was elected mayor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_London_mayoral_election

Here are some stats ( I probably just done more investigative journalism than done by staff of GBnews through it's whole run )

It's shows that some areas with a high concentration of LGBT people voted Tory but certainly not the big biggies like Southwark and Lambeth. It also shows that the areas nationality with highest concentrations of LGBT people are also Labour (or Green for Brighton) voting areas

Going from strength to strength.

😆

I guess it's now down to how long the investment cash will keep them going. I sort of expected the low-value bulk adverts to hold on for a little longer, (you know, the type of ads that are typical of niche channels at the far end of the channel list). Broadcast Television (outside the likes of the BBC) is all about the advertising cash, and without that there's barely any point financially speaking.

Of course, something might happen to bring them out of this, and there may even be investors out there willing to just burn their cash to support the channel, but really the chances of them avoiding channel closure are getting slimmer by the day. I'm more curious of what form the closure would take. Will they actually plan the closure and do a wind-down of their programming to an eventual end-day? Or, will they just keep running and then hit the wall when they start defaulting on all of their bills, resulting in a very dramatic and public closure? Option 2 seems more like the MO of some of their members. I would half expect the GB News brand to survive the closure and be used on their YouTube channel and potentially their own news website ala Brietbart News. However it would likely be a shell of itself.

their objective is to get people to watch their tv station. that objective has failed miserably.

I know, lads/lasses.

The trouble is most of the people talking about GB News are making fun of it or pointing out the trouble it's in rather than fans of it talking about how good it is. Because even the people who were supposed to be the target audience aren't watching it in nearly the numbers they had hoped, and many who watched in the beginning have dropped off. That's solely down to the quality of their programming not being good enough.

What was their objective, considering the money and reputation those involved both on and off camera put into it? Does anyone seriously believe investors put so much money into this to "trigger woke lefties" or whatever other buzzwords they use?

Even if they were happy enough to not make a profit in the hopes that the cultural changes they may affect would benefit them further down the line, they're not even showing they're capable of achieving that. Those watching already agree with everything they're saying, and they're just pandering more to that base to try keep viewership up.

"Objective achieved"? What the hell was their objective?

Edit: Ah, see your post above. But I'm sure there'll be some people along soon who'll be saying similar.