GBNews will be in HD on Freesat Channel No 216

liamtech

Subscribed to their Email list to keep an eye on things as they develop

Just received the following:

Hi Liam

Welcome to the GB News community.

As you know, we're hard at work building Britain's News Channel and we can't wait for you to meet our news family. We're committed to telling the stories that really matter to you, and celebrating the people of the United Kingdom.

We're excited to announce our new Freesat channel number 216, and that GB News HD will be available for viewers on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat.

You'll also be able to join us on Freeview and YouView channels 236, as well as Virgin Media, Sky and online.

Hopefully if it takes off Sky News might decide to transmit Sky News HD FTA too

Anyway just wanted to post the new info for the board

Atlantic Dawn

Will be interesting how it does, they have signed up a selection of big names for launch.

fryup

more news? no thanks, its nothing but bad news out there

Harry Palmr

Mainly comment I think, news is expensive. Talk is cheap.

The J Stands for Jay

fryup wrote: »

more news? no thanks, its nothing but bad news out there

The name makes me think it'll be some sort of little Englander ukip, fox news style, propaganda channel. I'm willing to be proved wrong, but not willing to Google it in case I'm right and istart getting targeted ads based on it.

Arthur Daley

It'll be an improvement but might be too tame for what is needed. Would like to see Julia Hartley Brewer and James Dellingpole on there. But Dellingpole is probably too 'out there' for Andrew Neil at this stage.

icdg

McGaggs wrote: »

The name makes me think it'll be some sort of little Englander ukip, fox news style, propaganda channel. I'm willing to be proved wrong, but not willing to Google it in case I'm right and istart getting targeted ads based on it.

I don’t expect it to resemble Fox News too much in terms of outlook- the U.K. regulatory authorities (Ofcom) will come down on it like a ton of bricks if it’s too overtly one-sided. Fox News itself is gone from the U.K. (and Ireland) because it kept getting fined for breaches of U.K. regulatory codes. Broadcast news in the U.K. is required to be impartial (no such requirement exists in the US) and although GB News seems that it will be more talking heads than actual news reports, they’ll still need to have their eye on the clock.

Where it will likely resemble Fox News (and most US news channels) is the fact that this is likely to have more talking heads programmes than actual news. I think this in itself might be an undoing. The British public isn’t used to personality driven news programmes in that way (Piers Morgan on GMB maybe an exception, but one which didn’t end well). Sky News tried it in 2005 and ran a mile from it after a few months. They’ve also had other examples like Richard Littlejohn’s programmes in the past which weren’t well received. Just don’t expect the U.K. version of Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly is what I’m saying.

Harry Palmr

Obnoxious/controversial talk works better on radio. The costs are tiny and it's a more personal, individual experience medium.

L1011

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Obnoxious/controversial talk works better on radio. The costs are tiny and it's a more personal, individual experience medium.

And this is why NewsUK have backed out of their plans to create a right-wing news TV channel - its going to just be some video content based on the existing radio stations instead.

fryup

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Obnoxious/controversial talk works better on radio. The costs are tiny and it's a more personal, individual experience medium.

didn't George Galloway have a show on on TalkSport a few years back? spouting his far left propaganda

Arthur Daley

fryup wrote: »

didn't George Galloway have a show on on TalkSport a few years back? spouting his far left propaganda

George was on Talk radio. But also on Russia Today TV

Atlantic Dawn

Arthur Daley wrote: »

George was on Talk radio. But also on Russia Today TV

Yes he regularly does shows on RT, this from yesterday...
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1kvJpoEbrLdGE

mackersdublin

liamtech wrote: »

Hopefully if it takes off Sky News might decide to transmit Sky News HD FTA too

With Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, NHK World, France 24, Al Jazeera, TRT World, Arirang and WION currently all broadcasting in HD and FTA, I don't see Sky News HD going to change just because GB News is just about to launch a new News channel FTA in HD unfortunately

lgs 4

mackersdublin wrote: »

With Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, NHK World, France 24, Al Jazeera, TRT World, Arirang, and WION currently all broadcasting in HD and FTA, I don't see Sky News HD going to change just because GB News is just about to launch a new News channel FTA in HD unfortunately

You can and the BBC World News, 10 years now in HD. DW News and Euronews on Astra 1 19e. Sky News HD no matter where you are in Europe is behind a paywall. When GB news starts, it may give Sky a kick in the ass. They have had an independent monopoly since 1986.

Atlantic Dawn

Here's a tweet from yesterday, I'd say it's a good 2 weeks plus away from launch...
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1393241631848112129

Gerry Wicklow

Set to launch on 31st May

BuzzG

Spotted EPG data on their test channel yesterday.

icdg

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Set to launch on 31st May

That has been officially denied now, it seems.

lgs 4

Does anyone know is there a GB news Picon available to download for a Zgemma H7S

twinklerunner

BuzzG wrote: »

Spotted EPG data on their test channel yesterday.

Will it be on Sky’s Irish epg I wonder?

Gerry Wicklow

lgs 4 wrote: »

Does anyone know is there a GB news Picon available to download for a Zgemma H7S

Try this:-

icdg

twinklerunner wrote: »

Will it be on Sky’s Irish epg I wonder?

Conflicting reports about that - Andrew Neil said it would be available in Ireland when he signed up but nobody else has since, though I don’t think anyone has officially come out and said it wouldn’t be.

It’ll be FTA anyway, so any curious Sky viewer can go down to Manual Tuning to have a look if they are that way inclined.

icdg

icdg wrote: »

Conflicting reports about that - Andrew Neil said it would be available in Ireland when he signed up but nobody else has since, though I don’t think anyone has officially come out and said it wouldn’t be.

It’ll be FTA anyway, so any curious Sky viewer can go down to Manual Tuning to have a look if they are that way inclined.

According to this article,Neil wants it available globally! Ireland is mentioned too!

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2020/09/25/news/andrew-neil-announces-gb-news-channel-to-rival-bbc-and-sky-2078976/

icdg

Launching 13th June at 8:00pm.

https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1397477610310017026?s=21

liamtech

icdg wrote: »

Launching 13th June at 8:00pm.

https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1397477610310017026?s=21

Interesting - thats the day of Englands first Euro 2020(2021) match

is it just me, or is that Odd? I mean Win Loose or Draw, is anyone gonna be paying attention?

Delta2113

zorro2566 wrote: »

According to this article,Neil wants it available globally! Ireland is mentioned too!

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2020/09/25/news/andrew-neil-announces-gb-news-channel-to-rival-bbc-and-sky-2078976/

- Very old article.

OneEightSeven

Here's the frequency: 11307 V 27500 5/6

Harry Palmr

liamtech wrote: »

Interesting - thats the day of Englands first Euro 2020(2021) match

is it just me, or is that Odd? I mean Win Loose or Draw, is anyone gonna be paying attention?

A very soft launch and possibly a very long lunch for Andrew Neil and friends.

Any word on Murdoch's channel?

StreetLight

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Any word on Murdoch's channel?

Won't be going ahead as a standalone channel:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/27/rupert-murdoch-scales-back-plan-for-news-uk-tv-channel

tv3tg4

Sky 515?

https://www.mediamole.co.uk/entertainment/broadcasting/news/gb-news-acquires-nigerian-news-channels-slot-on-sky_449132.html

mackersdublin

twinklerunner wrote: »

Will it be on Sky’s Irish epg I wonder?

It's now on Sky 515 on both ROI and UK boxes and Freesat 216 ahead of its 13th June launch (HD only)

Mav11

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Here's the frequency: 11307 V 27500 5/6

Coming in as 11306 V 27500 for me.

dxhound2005

GB News starting 8pm Sunday 13 June 2021.

https://www.mediamole.co.uk/entertainment/broadcasting/news/gb-news-launch-day-schedule-revealed_450531.html

I re-scanned 11306 V on FTA box, and the channel name has changed from 53395 to GB News HD.

Atlantic Dawn

Live now, the Andrew Neil opener has sound out of sync and picture like it's coming from a feed from south west Siberia.

dxhound2005

Andrew Neil is going to Drain the Swamp in the same way that Donald Trump did.

The "People's News, not the Media News"

Storm 10

Background is terrible not HD certainly a very poor looking start

lgs 4

Storm 10 wrote: »

Background is terrible not HD certainly a very poor looking start

They need to use desk microphones not body microphones and improve the soundproofing in the studio.

stanley1

Picture quality is woeful, more SD than HD.

Widescreen

Watched the breakfast programme around 7.30 this morning. It was one of the most amateurish programmes I have ever seen! Three presenters!
All sitting right next to each other, talking over each other and when something wasn't timed right, they actually started laughing. Just as well there was no really serious news this morning! It can only get better-if it doesn't they'll be gone fairly quickly!

dulpit

I flicked it on last night. The audio was out of sync with the picture. It was maybe 0.5 seconds out, but enough that made me bail immediately without even worrying about the content itself. The set also looked like it was someone's box bedroom with venetian blinds painted black.

Delta2113

They are getting slaughtered on Twitter and rightly so. I hope they go under. Sorry about people's job's but this channel is offering nothing good that's for sure.
In hindsight some very poor career moves for some.

It all seems so amateurish compared to Sky,BBC or even RTÈ news.

rogue-entity

The J Stands for Jay wrote: »

The name makes me think it'll be some sort of little Englander ukip, fox news style, propaganda channel. I'm willing to be proved wrong, but not willing to Google it in case I'm right and istart getting targeted ads based on it.

So long as it doesn't end up mirroring Sky News Australia, I think we'll be fine