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

One thing I that has me wondering about is the financial longevity of the channel. I believe that I may have read at one point (and I can be wrong here) that their initial investment alone would probably keep them going at least a year, all going well.

Costs-wise I'm imagining a very lean operation with perhaps no more than 2 dozen people at their studio, and that might even include the presenters. There was mention once of them using a lot of automated studio equipment. If true, I can imagine most shows generally consisting of the presenter, and perhaps no more than one or two on-set producers in the room to switch everything on and try to make sure that nothing much goes wrong.

So all in, you've got the staff costs for a small to medium sized office, the presenter fees (which I guess Farage is taking the larger share of) and then any other costs related to rental of a central London location + operating costs of the channel.

But against that, how is the channel's income? Their biggest potential source of income as a TV channel is advertising...but with low ratings the value of that advertising will also be low. Their most valuable block of advertising is probably around the Farage show, but in there you might get slate of advertisers keeping their distance from that kind of programming as has happened with Sainsburys. If they are monitised at all on YouTube, their income from that might at best pay for the staffer who manages that channel.

Without actually knowing the state of their income, and just using my imagination, I can see a situation where GB News is just buring through their investment cash to keep things ticking over until they hope they can get to a point where the advert revenue will become valuable enough for them to break even and very best-case to turn a profit. Failing that, they may hope to get another invester involved by the end of the year.

Failing either, the channel will likely run out of cash at some point when the investment runs out. Then I imagine it'll be more of a question of:

a) Last minute investment to keep them going a bit longer

b) Defaulting on all of their debts and being forced to close a few months later.

c) Seeing the writing on the wall and planning a closure of the channel.

So I feel it's all down to the value of advertising. They need to improve that, or it's just a matter of time before the channel will likely close.

You mean he expressed his right to free speech/expression? And the anti cancel culture crowd cancelled him?

It really isn't. What you said is still there for anyone who cares to read it and no amount of "what I really meant" changes that. Your words and indeed your repeated reinforcing posts make very clear what you said.

It wasn't a leaving cert poem, a Bible verse it was clear prose from you not requiring any interpretation or clarification.

You made the link you drew with charity, paedophilia and Marcus Rashford crystal clear.

You wanting to move on from your statements, wanting to clarify, or just wanting every other poster on the thread to forget what you posted and indeed reiterated multiple times? Do you think that those insights into your thought process will be omitted solely because you want to move on, or that you think they've been dealt with?

They think they can gaslight people but forget that we have the receipts in black and white. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Well you don't get to decide what is on topic here. Maybe apologise for the horrible things you said about Rashford and we will stop bringing it up.

As things stand it is relevant because it shows you will say any sort of horrible rubbish to attack someone you don't like