GB News

[bluethrunthru]

Oh, dear. All very sad...and predictable. Seems it will turn into a knock off version of Fox News.

"Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News"

Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News

Insiders say veteran broadcaster has been frozen out of decision-making by Australian boss who may want it to become a 'British Fox News'

www.telegraph.co.uk

I wasn't aware he had a future at GB News tbh

 

[BlueHammer85]

Oh, dear. All very sad...and predictable. Seems it will turn into a knock off version of Fox News.

"Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News"

Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News

Insiders say veteran broadcaster has been frozen out of decision-making by Australian boss who may want it to become a 'British Fox News'

www.telegraph.co.uk

Only way it’s gonna survive is if they go the full Fox News route - there’s an audience for blatant racism, hatred and ignorance.
There’s not an audience for a ‘bit’ of that.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Only way it’s gonna survive is if they go the full Fox News route - there’s an audience for blatant racism, hatred and ignorance.
There’s not an audience for a ‘bit’ of that.

True - nobody ever says I am just a bit racist/homophobic/misogynist etc do they? Those choices are marmite - you either are or you are not

 

[Vic]

Oh, dear. All very sad...and predictable. Seems it will turn into a knock off version of Fox News.

"Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News"

Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News

Insiders say veteran broadcaster has been frozen out of decision-making by Australian boss who may want it to become a 'British Fox News'

www.telegraph.co.uk

The Australian boss?

Employee of City's boss ....

Sky News Arabia appoints Angelos Frangopoulos as CEO

Sky News Arabia has announced the appointment of Angelos Frangopoulos as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Editor.In his new role,

www.broadcastprome.com

 

[patrickkinney]

“Talking Pints with Nigel Farage” is always on my YouTube recommendations.

I’ve clicked a couple of them out of curiosity but never got past about two mins. To be fair he has some interesting guests but it’s always just him barking over them.

Vince Cable is a genuinely interesting guy and the idea of a conversation between him and Farage could be worth listening to, but he’s a shit interviewer. Your job is to listen, and he’s terrible at it.

I watched that Vince Cable interview and I actually hope the channel doesn't go fully TalkRadio/Fox News, because then decent, moderate people, like him, will not go near the place.

I learnt something new too, he put it to Sir Vince that the u-turn on the University fees during the coalition really stuffed things up for the Lib-Dems,(which I always thought was the case), but Cable explained it wasn't really that; when Cameron ran a scare campaign in 2015 of vote for us or get the SNP and Labour, then they were struggling.

Read a really interesting article yesterday that was describing how these shady right wing think tanks have used the Gbeebies and the anti vax brouhaha as a dry run for the impending fight they are going to have against the climate change activists and the impending climate change conference.

To be fair to Farage (I know, hard to believe!) as well as having Vince Cable in for interview, yesterday he had Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. So he can't be accused of just getting people on who agree with him - he does pick from the full spectrum. Hallam is the guy who wants zero emissions by 2025 and a ban on cars and all plane flights.

I mean, I doubt anyone here agrees with that.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I watched that Vince Cable interview and I actually hope the channel doesn't go fully TalkRadio/Fox News, because then decent, moderate people, like him, will not go near the place.

I learnt something new too, he put it to Sir Vince that the u-turn on the University fees during the coalition really stuffed things up for the Lib-Dems,(which I always thought was the case), but Cable explained it wasn't really that; when Cameron ran a scare campaign in 2015 of vote for us or get the SNP and Labour, then they were struggling.



To be fair to Farage (I know, hard to believe!) as well as having Vince Cable in for interview, yesterday he had Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. So he can't be accused of just getting people on who agree with him - he does pick from the full spectrum. Hallam is the guy who wants zero emissions by 2025 and a ban on cars and all plane flights.

I mean, I doubt anyone here agrees with that.

Extremist nutters of all flavours are, well, extremist nutters.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[stonerblue]

The figures don't bear that out:

"Farage has done for GBN exactly what its founders wanted: he has embarrassed the rivals by setting the news agenda and beating their ratings. Tuesday’s show got 107,000 viewers, vs 35,000 for Sky and 93,000 for the BBC News channel – the latter very significant because he was up against the excellent Outside Source, which was meant to be the new model of BBC programme-making. GBN is never going to get BBC One style ratings or provide the corporation’s breadth of coverage – silly metrics for a gonzo start-up – but translate that 100,000 into a regular audience, keep the advertisers happy, and you’ve got a long-running business model."

from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/01/culture-warriors-have-captured-gb-news/

I suppose the chances are he says something too extreme, as he did on LBC: he compared Black Lives Matters protestors to the Taliban, for demolishing statues of slaves traders and they had to fire him. That would put them back to square one & then you might be right.

Give him time..

 

[patrickkinney]

Sainsbury’s will stop advertising on GB News and on Nigel Farage’s show

A spokesperson said: “We are a non-political organisation. We advertise across a wide range of media outlets, including TV to reach all of our customers.

I’m a bit surprised by this: I suppose a sample of a 1000 people is quite small, is that normal for this type of thing?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ource=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey

‘A survey of 1,000 people found that 29 per cent were more likely to watch GB News following the boycott, compared to 14 per cent who said they were less likely to tune in.

The findings suggest that the campaign designed to damage the new centre-right broadcaster may backfire. A series of firms, including Nivea, Kopparberg and Ikea, withdrew or suspended advertising campaigns on GB News following pressure by activist groups such as Stop Funding Hate and Led by Donkeys.

Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Conservative MP for Bassetlaw, said the poll showed that, despite social media storms over companies' decision to place advertisements on GB News, “the vast majority of normal people out there just want businesses to focus on selling them the right products at the right prices."

Led by Donkeys, which campaigned against Brexit, has funded billboard posters singling out companies such as Sainsbury's, Halfords and Kellogg's for advertising on the channel, and stating: "These companies pay for Nigel Farage to attack RNLI lifeboat crews on his TV show."

A poll by CT Group, commissioned by GB News, found that 57 per cent of people believe that consumer goods companies should not take public political stances - compared to 15 per cent who disagreed. More than one in three (36 per cent) of those surveyed say they would feel less favourable towards companies that cancel advertisements under "politically-motivated social media pressure". Just over a fifth (22 per cent) of respondents said they would think more favourably of such companies.

Mr Clarke-Smith said: “These findings show the risk businesses are taking when they allow their marketing strategies to be dictated by those engaged in cancel culture.

"As always, these online mobs create noise, which is given traction by the mainstream media, but the vast majority of normal people out there just want businesses to focus on selling them the right products at the right prices.

"If Sainsbury’s wants to pander to the mob, enter the political arena and bend to the will of politically motivated campaigns, people will start changing where they shop. I don’t want my supermarket to have political views - I want it to sell me good food at competitive prices."

Last week Sainsbury's denied Led By Donkeys' claims that it had withdrawn advertising from GB News as a result of pressure by activists - stating instead that its campaign had come to a "natural end".’

 

[bluethrunthru]

I’m a bit surprised by this: I suppose a sample of a 1000 people is quite small, is that normal for this type of thing?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ource=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey

‘A survey of 1,000 people found that 29 per cent were more likely to watch GB News following the boycott, compared to 14 per cent who said they were less likely to tune in.

The findings suggest that the campaign designed to damage the new centre-right broadcaster may backfire. A series of firms, including Nivea, Kopparberg and Ikea, withdrew or suspended advertising campaigns on GB News following pressure by activist groups such as Stop Funding Hate and Led by Donkeys.

Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Conservative MP for Bassetlaw, said the poll showed that, despite social media storms over companies' decision to place advertisements on GB News, “the vast majority of normal people out there just want businesses to focus on selling them the right products at the right prices."

Led by Donkeys, which campaigned against Brexit, has funded billboard posters singling out companies such as Sainsbury's, Halfords and Kellogg's for advertising on the channel, and stating: "These companies pay for Nigel Farage to attack RNLI lifeboat crews on his TV show."

A poll by CT Group, commissioned by GB News, found that 57 per cent of people believe that consumer goods companies should not take public political stances - compared to 15 per cent who disagreed. More than one in three (36 per cent) of those surveyed say they would feel less favourable towards companies that cancel advertisements under "politically-motivated social media pressure". Just over a fifth (22 per cent) of respondents said they would think more favourably of such companies.

Mr Clarke-Smith said: “These findings show the risk businesses are taking when they allow their marketing strategies to be dictated by those engaged in cancel culture.

"As always, these online mobs create noise, which is given traction by the mainstream media, but the vast majority of normal people out there just want businesses to focus on selling them the right products at the right prices.

"If Sainsbury’s wants to pander to the mob, enter the political arena and bend to the will of politically motivated campaigns, people will start changing where they shop. I don’t want my supermarket to have political views - I want it to sell me good food at competitive prices."

Last week Sainsbury's denied Led By Donkeys' claims that it had withdrawn advertising from GB News as a result of pressure by activists - stating instead that its campaign had come to a "natural end".’

I doubt many of them use Sainsburys anyway after their outrage over Sainsburys opening staff well being areas in stores a couple of years ago - they all claimed it had gone woke and are presumably shocked to see it still hasn't gone broke