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

mcmoustache · 17-06-2021 08:00PM

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

A murder on Twitter yesterday

https://twitter.com/MatthewStadlen/status/1405292609963270148?s=19

Are you related to Mike Oxelong? He's been calling into the station quite a bit.

17-06-2021 08:01PM

Tonight Live with Dan Wooton has just started.

Guests include Dan Hodges, Lionel Shriver, Konstantin Kisin, and Jeffrey Archer.

Quality guests for what is likely to be an eventful and edifying evening.

hots · 17-06-2021 08:02PM

astrofool wrote: »

So, how long before they start trying to blame cancel culture for, em, being cancelled?

It is pretty unwatchable, for a human.

Already started when the corporates pulled ads

17-06-2021 08:02PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The real murder occurred to the same person who applied to become a presenter on GB News:

https://twitter.com/johnlucius/status/1405407859035316228

:rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/MatthewStadlen/status/1405419468101197825?s=20

He hadn't the sense to just slouch off

Smee_Again · 17-06-2021 08:03PM

mcmoustache wrote: »

Are you related to Mike Oxelong? He's been calling into the station quite a bit.

Speaks a lot of sense does Mike Oxelong.

hots · 17-06-2021 08:04PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

The real murder occurred to the same person who applied to become a presenter on GB News:

https://twitter.com/johnlucius/status/1405407859035316228

:rolleyes:

That's pretty funny tbf

17-06-2021 08:05PM

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

He hadn't the sense to just slouch off

He can hardly complain about a station he was perfectly content to join. Had he joined it, I have no doubt he'd be defending the glitches as just that, glitches.

Sour grapes on his part.

Vindictive behaviour. He got caught out. And thank goodness for that.

17-06-2021 08:06PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

He can hardly complain about a station he was perfectly content to join. Had he joined it, I have no doubt he'd be defending the glitches as just that, glitches.

Sour grapes on his part.

Vindictive behaviour. He got caught out. And thank goodness for that.

Totally roasted.

Smee_Again · 17-06-2021 08:07PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

He can hardly complain about a station he was perfectly content to join. Had he joined it, I have no doubt he'd be defending the glitches as just that, glitches.

Sour grapes on his part.

Vindictive behaviour. He got caught out. And thank goodness for that.

Of course he can if he thought he was applying to a serious news broadcaster but it transpires it was actually a Transition Year school project.

17-06-2021 08:14PM

GB News acknowledge these have been teething issues and a handful of gremlins.

That's the kind of modesty you will not see with other channels.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1405052518841950208

KildareP · 17-06-2021 08:16PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

GB News acknowledge these have been teething issues and a handful of gremlins.

That's the kind of modesty you will not see with other channels.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1405052518841950208

Indeed - because I have never known other channels to have the level of technical incompetence as GB news

L1011 · 17-06-2021 08:21PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

GB News acknowledge these have been teething issues and a handful of gremlins.

That's the kind of modesty you will not see with other channels.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1405052518841950208

No other channel has been so utterly technically incompetent since L!VE, if even, so such an acknowledgement would not have had reason to occur this millennium.

breezy1985 · 17-06-2021 08:24PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

GB News acknowledge these have been teething issues and a handful of gremlins.

That's the kind of modesty you will not see with other channels.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1405052518841950208

Clutching at straws if that is what you call a win

L1011 · 17-06-2021 08:35PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

I suspect it's more true to say that you're pleased about this, given your political alignment.

I've said it many times already, but it deserves to be said once again: the technical issues are a cover for the Left to voice their disapproval of a station they already disapproved of before it even existed.

It really seems that its more that the defence of the absolute hilarity is because of being upset that something that has had so much energy and hope put in to it by believers is run so incredibly badly.

You'd be sent home by a hospital radio station training day for engineers for the sound issues. You'd be taken off basic production work for the constant typos and gaffes.

There are people blaming an untested virtual set software package which, if true, at least externalises a bit of the blame - but that's what you have testing periods for. And for a 60m company, you can afford a proper testing period.

17-06-2021 08:39PM

L1011 wrote: »

It really seems that its more that the defence of the absolute hilarity is because of being upset that something that has had so much energy and hope put in to it by believers is run so incredibly badly.

You'd be sent home by a hospital radio station training day for engineers for the sound issues. You'd be taken off basic production work for the constant typos and gaffes.

There are people blaming an untested virtual set software package which, if true, at least externalises a bit of the blame - but that's what you have testing periods for. And for a 60m company, you can afford a proper testing period.

Are you seriously suggesting that, if there were no glitches or sound issues etc., you would objectively rate the station favorably?

Really!? :rolleyes:

I've been watching it for the past 3-hours. No sound or technical issues. Quite edifying discussion, far more than I've heard on other stations. Quite a nice amount of disagreement, too, which is important for someone such as myself. I'd hate if it were totally uniform opinion.

Tell me how · 17-06-2021 08:41PM

I'm not convinced that they are not doing this on purpose, partly in order to get people to tune in even if it is to see how bad it is.
They're still selecting the channel.

And, as I've said already, it will give them an opportunity to show they're improving albeit when starting from such a low base.

DeepBlue · 17-06-2021 08:41PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

RTE were caught colluding with a privately funded lobby group to write and air segments on COVID-19 through the Claire Byrne show.

Curious about this as I never heard of it. Is there any link to a report on it?

L1011 · 17-06-2021 08:41PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

Are you seriously suggesting that, if there were no glitches or sound issues etc., you would objectively rate the station favorably?

Really!? :rolleyes:

No, and to even try and draw that from what I've said is an incredible stretch.

There are huge technical and production standards issues. Nobody can actually realistically deny that.

There are ridiculous attempts to try and justify those and make up strawman arguments about 'if this happened to another channel people wouldn't complain' and so on. There are ridiculous attempts to defend all these issues.

This is being done out of blind loyalty to the concept of the channel and nothing else.

archfi · 17-06-2021 08:41PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

Tonight Live with Dan Wooton has just started.

Guests include Dan Hodges, Lionel Shriver, Konstantin Kisin, and Jeffrey Archer.

Quality guests for what is likely to be an eventful and edifying evening.

I've finally tuned it in on my satbox and that was because I knew Andrew Doyle and Konstantin Kisin were to be on this evening.
Both very good value guests - will I agree with everything they opine, probably not but I like both their logic and intelligence in debate.

Dan Wooton wouldn't be a big draw for me but then James O'Brien started out as a cut throat gossipy hoor of a journalist for the Express newspaper and look at his spot on opinion radio in the UK.

PS I think the glitches are over from what i've seen so far

17-06-2021 08:45PM

archfi wrote: »

I've finally tuned it in on my satbox and that was because I knew Andrew Doyle and Konstantin Kisin were to be on this evening.
Both very good value guests - will I agree with everything they opine, probably not but I like both their logic and intelligence in debate.

Dan Wooton wouldn't be a big draw for me but then James O'Brien started out as a cut throat gossipy hoor of a journalist for the Express newspaper and look at his spot on opinion radio in the UK.

PS I think the glitches are over from what i've seen so far

Agreed.

Seems much more seamless than before, not that the glitches bothered me to begin with. As I said before, it would be weird if there were no glitches.

Dan Wooton isn't my greatest cup of tea, either. I do think his ego is larger than his pants deserve.

awec · 17-06-2021 08:48PM

I stuck this on at lunch time today for 10 mins while my lunch was in the oven, they were going on about Enid Blyton and Shakespeare, real cutting edge journalistic content.

It was clear for me that this is a channel for simpletons who enjoy getting themselves worked up about nothing.

17-06-2021 08:49PM

Andrew Neil on the facts about COVID-19 and reasons to be hopeful even with the growth of the Indian Variant.

Smee_Again · 17-06-2021 08:50PM

awec wrote: »

I stuck this on at lunch time today for 10 mins while my lunch was in the oven, they were going on about Enid Blyton and Shakespeare, real cutting edge journalistic content.

It was clear for me that this is a channel for simpletons who enjoy getting themselves worked up about nothing.

I turned it on a about 15 minutes ago and they were talking and Blyton then too.

They really don’t like when racists are acknowledged as being racist.

awec · 17-06-2021 08:53PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

Andrew Neil on the facts about COVID-19 and reasons to be hopeful even with the growth of the Indian Variant.

If you didn't know Andrew Neil you'd think this video was dubbed.

mcmoustache · 17-06-2021 08:55PM

eskimohunt wrote: »

Andrew Neil on the facts about COVID-19 and reasons to be hopeful even with the growth of the Indian Variant.

I quite like Andrew Neil as it happens. I used to watch This Week back when I had a TV. He's a smart man. I'm even more impressed now to find out that he's an epidemiologist too.

Smee_Again · 17-06-2021 09:00PM

mcmoustache wrote: »

I quite like Andrew Neil as it happens. I used to watch This Week back when I had a TV. He's a smart man. I'm even more impressed now to find out that he's an epidemiologist too.

Well he’s given up being a journalist so he needed to find a new gig.

17-06-2021 09:05PM

Smee_Again wrote: »

Well he’s given up being a journalist so he needed to find a new gig.

Ridiculous.

Danzy · 17-06-2021 09:23PM

It's just another news channel, course it's anti woke it's targeting the working class and all those who are tired of the established corporate media.

New stations are often counter culture, it's where they can find a niche.

It's been repeated countless times in Ireland and Britain in the last 20 years in media.

Lots of the large corporations won't advertise with them, it's a small new station, they won't bother and can say whatever reason they want.

If it grows, they will.

You would think this was a unique event by the circus in this thread.

17-06-2021 09:23PM

Morgans wrote: »

QED

I agree. Just not in the way you believe.

astrofool · 17-06-2021 09:28PM

Danzy wrote: »

You would think this was a unique event by the circus in this thread.

It's a fairly unique thing at the moment due to television being an old medium, it's like launching a newspaper ~10 years ago when the writing was on the wall for print.

As you say, its targeting a very specific niche and hoping that it's big enough to pay the bills, but we're unlikely to see it repeated very often.

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

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