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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Oh no don't tell me they're doing football! Is there no safe space for alt-right football haters? :-{

    Doha.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    However, Andrew assured fans his break wouldn’t be too long: “I’ll be back before the summer is out and when you least expect it so stay tuned.

    Sounds like WWE tag line.

    Expect him to jump in and hit a guest with a steel chair...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    listermint wrote: »
    What's that ? That the numbers are crap they've no sponsors the only people watching are doing so for the laugh and the investors are pissed?

    If only we could have foreseen all this at the start of this thread.

    Won't last the year .

    I don't see the picture you paint.

    Their YouTube channel is booming. In the past two weeks, it has rocketed to almost 140,000 subscribers - doubling in fact over that period, and growing rapidly. The engagement on videos is pretty high, and not by people mocking the channel either.

    I've been a regular viewer of many shows over the past several weeks and noticed that production and sound etc. has improved. That said, these teething issues didn't bother me at the time anyway. I was more interested in the content voiced rather than what was going on in the background.

    I find interviews far more balanced and productive. Andrew Neil's interview last night with the founder of Extinction Rebellion being the latest of many examples.

    I think Alex and McCoy's Show is a great combination of news, humour and entertainment, far better than what you see with Good Morning Britain.

    I see a bright future ahead for the channel, despite what the nay-sayers and those of the Left want us to believe. They want the channel to fail, no matter what. They wanted it to fail before the channel even began airing. Picking on small issues is just a cover.

    Even if it had the best possible production, they'd want it to fail. :rolleyes:

    I'm going to keep watching it, that's for sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    eskimohunt wrote: »
    Their YouTube channel is booming. In the past two weeks, it has rocketed to almost 140,000 subscribers - doubling in fact over that period, and growing rapidly.
    For a new channel that seems fairly good.

    Compared to some others it's less but that's to be expected from an infant channel.
    Guardian 1.88M subscribers
    Independent.ie 33.2K subscribers
    Good Morning Britain 968K subscribers
    Daily Mail 1.36M subscribers
    Channel 4 News 1.69M subscribers
    Reuters 1.08M subscribers
    ITV News 830K subscribers
    RTÉ News doesn't display subscribers


  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    For a new channel that seems fairly good.

    Compared to some others it's less but that's to be expected from an infant channel.
    Guardian 1.88M subscribers
    Independent.ie 33.2K subscribers
    Good Morning Britain 968K subscribers
    Daily Mail 1.36M subscribers
    Channel 4 News 1.69M subscribers
    Reuters 1.08M subscribers
    ITV News 830K subscribers
    RTÉ News doesn't display subscribers

    Yes, it's a channel very much in gestation.

    The average number of hits per video is currently higher than that with GMB.

    GMBs subscriber share rocketed on the back of Piers Morgan, who would very much suit GB News.

    I can see them hitting a million subscribers next year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    I see Andrew Neil has decided to boycott GB News.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    I see Andrew Neil has decided to boycott GB News.

    Yes, the Eurosceptic French resident, who is also the Chairman of the channel, feels the need to take an extended break after just 2 weeks of presenting on the shítfest of a channel!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,976 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    listermint wrote: »
    What's that ? That the numbers are crap they've no sponsors the only people watching are doing so for the laugh and the investors are pissed?


    If only we could have foreseen all this at the start of this thread.


    Won't last the year .

    Would you like to put your money where your mouth is ?
    How about even money it lasts the year, 100 euro ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,775 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Yes, the Eurosceptic French resident, who is also the Chairman of the channel, feels the need to take an extended break after just 2 weeks of presenting on the shítfest of a channel!

    2 weeks and he is doing a runner, what a snowflake


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    2 weeks and he is doing a runner, what a snowflake

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,424 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The last national newspaper to launch in the UK lasted ten weeks more or less. This may come in under that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    L1011 wrote: »
    The last national newspaper to launch in the UK lasted ten weeks more or less. This may come in under that
    What newspaper was that?


  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What newspaper was that?

    I think it was called The New Day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,775 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    I wonder how the investors who put £60m into this project are feeling now that Andrew Neil has walked off the job. He was not just the lead anchorman, he is also the Chairman of GB News so he would have been front and centre convincing investors to part with their money for the last 6 months while they got ready for launch. Now he has walked off the job after just two weeks on air, the investors must be furious with him for losing them millions.

    Id say Piers Morgan can pretty much name his price now. They need to get a heavy hitter in or all credibility will be lost. They are already having trouble attracting advertisers and the likes of Dan Whooton and Michelle Dewsbury are not going to do anything to change that. If they cant attract a heavy hitter like Piers then I would say they are toast and more rats will desert the ship in the coming weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    eskimohunt wrote: »
    I think it was called The New Day.

    Why are we comparing the demise of an actual paper newspaper launched in 2016 (when the writing had been on the wall for physical newspapers for well over a decade) with a TV/Youtube proposition which seems to have pretty good ratings?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,994 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    I wonder how the investors who put £60m into this project are feeling now that Andrew Neil has walked off the job. He was not just the lead anchorman, he is also the Chairman of GB News so he would have been front and centre convincing investors to part with their money for the last 6 months while they got ready for launch. Now he has walked off the job after just two weeks on air, the investors must be furious with him for losing them millions.

    Id say Piers Morgan can pretty much name his price now. They need to get a heavy hitter in or all credibility will be lost. They are already having trouble attracting advertisers and the likes of Dan Whooton and Michelle Dewsbury are not going to do anything to change that. If they cant attract a heavy hitter like Piers then I would say they are toast and more rats will desert the ship in the coming weeks.

    I LOL'd at the thought of Piers Morgan adding credibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,922 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    I LOL'd at the thought of Piers Morgan adding credibility.

    Morgan, the snowflake who stormed off set when he got called out on his BS and thought he was too big to fail :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Andrew is 72 so allowed to take a break after launching the channel, so back in your boxes boys!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,994 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Andrew is 72 so allowed to take a break after launching the channel, so back in your boxes boys!

    after 2 weeks??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    after 2 weeks??

    I'd imagine he's been working on this longer than that. He is old and not in great shape.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,994 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    I'd imagine he's been working on this longer than that. He is old and not in great shape.

    Do you think this was planned in advance? an odd way to do it if it was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,146 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Would you like to put your money where your mouth is ?
    How about even money it lasts the year, 100 euro ?

    I don't gamble with anonymous right wing accounts on the internet. Cheers for the offer though.


    End of the year adiós.


    Revenue shattered , investors out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,146 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Andrew is 72 so allowed to take a break after launching the channel, so back in your boxes boys!

    Start writing down the excuses now boys for when it closes up shop


    Silenced. so they were, silenced I say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Do you think this was planned in advance? an odd way to do it if it was.
    I doubt it, he was the colour of an aubergine on the screen the other day, i doubt he's able for it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,146 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    I doubt it, he was the colour of an aubergine on the screen the other day, i doubt he's able for it

    Someone's never watched Andrew before.


    He's been that colour for decades


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    listermint wrote: »
    Someone's never watched Andrew before.


    He's been that colour for decades
    I've watched for years on the beeb


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    after 2 weeks??

    You do realize that he didn't just rock up two weeks ago and launch the channel? He has been working on this for months!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,146 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    I've watched for years on the beeb

    And you've missed his red to purple complexion. I find that hard to believe or you should get a new TV


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    listermint wrote: »
    And you've missed his red to purple complexion. I find that hard to believe or you should get a new TV

    Ok you can have this win, you've earned it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,976 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    listermint wrote: »
    I don't gamble with anonymous right wing accounts on the internet. Cheers for the offer though.


    End of the year adiós.


    Revenue shattered , investors out.

    Anarchy is now right wing , lol.

    You are a funny chap.


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