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

Does this mean back soon or "back soon" in the Andrew Neil sense of the term 😂

All the random people they've swiped from Talk Radio has given Talk Radio a schedule hole to put Jeremy Kyle on... which is likely to be of more benefit to TR than retaining the presenters who left!

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.

Mentions on Boards is worth about as much as all them claps the NHS nurses were paid so I wouldn't be worried too much anyway

How much, ballpark figure will do, do they get paid when we talk about them?

Really depends on cash flow. I think I read once that they had enough money invested to run themselves into next year. However it might be that the people running GB News might not want to invest their time and effort into the channel if things don't appear to improve soon. You could get to a situation where the channel is unable to operate before it runs out of cash.

All the new hires will be dragging on the bank balance at a higher rate than the original staff.

What talk radio employed Jeremy Kyle? Had thought he was persona non grata in the media business but I suppose not.

Yeah he was, I watched him for 10 minutes. He wasnt in the studio though, Im not sure if they have set up a satellite studio outside London or if it was a studio set up in his own house. Either way he intended conducting his full show interviewing guests from their own homes which is fine for one or two guests but not an entire show.

He had the former UK ambassador to the US on except this fella hadnt been an ambassador since 2003 and had little to offer. The two of them were bemoaning the degradation of the 'Special Relationship' between the US and the UK. Farage got his hits in on Obama and Biden and harked back to the glory days of Trump ("a good friend of mine"). It was actually funny though as Farage was saying because the US acted unilaterally in Afghanistan that the UK needs to find itself more reliable allies. There was no mention of the UK burning their bridges with the EU of course though. After the 2003 ambassador he had Sean Spicer on but I turned off at that point

Their ad sales is outsourced to Sky Media. Sky were at one stage stuffing the breaks with their own ads, you'd often get an ad for Sky Broadband, followed by an ad for Sky Mobile followed by an ad for Sky Sports. Maybe two bullion commercials and perhaps a more "mainstream" ad at peak times. It seems even Sky have given up buying up the ad space if they've resorted to showing holding slates for 3-4 minutes!

Yeah, I remember Andrew Neil launched the channel he spent about 15 minutes talking about the target that was driving him to get involved in this and risk his journalistic reputation was to have 10 to 15 anonymous accounts on an Irish discussion Board post a handful of posts a day about them. That's the goal, who cares about ad sales or viewing figures.

FFS, what a ridiculous statement. Is that what you're left with to try to defend the channel? Kinda hoping people will stop badmouthing them for fear of being said to be justifying the channel in doing so. No chance, I'm not sure they'll fold, but I'm glad to see the lack of appetite there is for that brand of Faux News.

What a load of absolute $h1te. You are trying to sneakily link this to "woke cancel culture" by claiming we want the channel "shut down" because we disagree with it's views.

I want the channel to have no viewers because it means that people don't believe in it's bile. If it has no viewers it goes bankrupt and fails and that is not the same as wanting it "shut down"

This! 100% this.

If you start a station espousing free speech, libertarian, right wing and free market viewpoints?

Who's fault is it when the free market doesn't switch in? And when those that did, switch off in droves?

Because it had/has the potential to a massively significant player in the future evolution of UK society. The chances of this appear to be small right now as if it doesn't generate revenue, it's time might be short unless they were to find some sort of benefactor although they'd want very deep pockets, or be very sure of an outcome they were satisfied with to put their money in to this.

You might think it is far fetched that they become a societal influence but that is what they set out to be given the way they branded themselves in a particular way and you only have to look at the US to see how dangerous this can be. Donald Trump was an objectively bad President, communicator, strategist, politician. That's more than just an opinion, that's a fact and yet a very significant portion of the population believe the election was stolen from him and that the country is doomed without him. More than any other entity, Fox News is responsible for this situation and in a similar fashion for how society feels about climate change, immigrants, science and healthcare.

This isn't just about wanting to see the right wingers taking a loss, it's about not wanting to see society at the behest of a media entity.

Look, I actually agree with the criticisms of the narrow narrative of GBNews. If they are going to go on and on about Woke and cancel culture every day, that is going to get very tired very fast.

But there defiantly are 2 issues they have raised, and I get that's not many, that are not robustly debated in the msm.

On the issue of cross channel migrants/refugees, some think the numbers are going to explode over time, if something isn't done to settle the numbers down a bit. I kinda get that that, without knowing it's a fact. I can't see the numbers reducing, only going up, if some action isn't taken to upset the chain of what is going on. Surely it's not sustainable as it is anyway.

As for other issues, I think the support for Biden is another big one. It's fine to criticize Trump but all I see is soft criticism of Biden. As if because Biden beat Trump, no criticism necessary.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but the channel generally has been very critical of Boris Johnson. Not far-right enough, eh.

Cross channel I'm immigration and Ttump? Trust me, neither of those "issues" are on the tongues of the average person in the UK.

Which also means we have to miss them eating crow about Marcus Rashford's Spectator article.