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Started by Sebastian Cobb, March 10, 2021, 06:59:34 PM

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Kankurette

Quote from: Blue Jam on March 19, 2021, 03:17:46 PM
Unread beside the toilet. Yes, "Fathers' Day Books" is a fair description too. Given as a gift along with a card with a golfer on it or a fart joke or a pint of beer because that's what dads like isn't it fuckit this'll do.
Mine's dead but yeah, he wouldn't have liked most Fathers' Day cards. He wasn't into golf, football was more his thing, and Mum is the DIY expert in the family. I think he'd have disowned me if I'd have given him a 'Fathers' Day book', raging lefty that he was.

Fambo Number Mive

So how fresh will the perspectives of GB News be compared to the right-wing voices of the Sun, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Times, Guido Fawkes etc, Mr Oliver?

idunnosomename

Dan Wooton always looks like a porn star to me.

And not like a gay porn star or anything, one of those horrible ones that calls the ladies lots of rude words


idunnosomename

ka-ching! so much for Leveson 2 eh.

SpiderChrist

Do you think if more people had told Tom Watson to fuck off, that he'd be less of a cunt?

mobias

Yeah I saw that Tom Watson twitter post earlier. Seems very naive of him, especially since we know who's funding this new channel. It sounds genuinely dangerous from a public health messaging point of view to have this channel starting at the moment. Its clearly going to be the go to channel for covid deniers everywhere and you just know that their covid cynicism is going to be fuelled by covid deniers like Neil Oliver and Dan Wootton, and all the rest presumably.

I noticed a few people on Twitter commentating that Neil Oliver appears to be fairly happy about committing career suicide as a BBC history presenter. Presumably his BBC career will be quickly over once he starts broadcasting the sort of anti covid stuff he frequently mouths off about on twitter.

My prediction is the channel will start off by being relatively moderate, just to test the waters to see how far it can push things, bill will fairly quickly turn into a total cess pit of Fox news proportions.


dissolute ocelot

So is that old media whore Watson on the payroll yet? Is he going to be the Fox News style token liberal?

Neil Oliver, though, what a cunt. He seems the perfect companion for Andrew Neil, a Scot who doesn't believe the Scots deserve any democracy, and a defender of the British Empire against the evils of BLM. But oh that flowing hair, the trichological conversations he and Brillo will have! Maybe Andrew wants to steal his hair.

I would never advocate bombing the headquarters of any media organisation, but if they had a bad infestation of wasps or hornets, it would be well deserved.
Quote from: mobias on April 18, 2021, 08:56:30 PM
My prediction is the channel will start off by being relatively moderate, just to test the waters to see how far it can push things, bill will fairly quickly turn into a total cess pit of Fox news proportions.
That would be the sensible long-term plan, but I imagine it'll try and rush for viewers with a ton of controversy. Even if its backers were willing to fund it for years, Andrew Neil would never be happy to helm something with 500 viewers each bedecked with a "Do Not Resuscitate" ticket.

steveh

Murdoch has killed off his News UK TV channel having decided it's not commercially viable. Thought that was going to be the one of the two that had a better chance of surviving.

The Culture Bunker

Wonder if that news will make the GB News mob a bit nervous? Would be amusing if after a while the money men behind it all tell Neill and his cronies "look, drop the 'woke watch' shit, ok? You need to broaden the appeal".

Blue Jam

Just seen this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1385571938261741570

A plug for Alexandra Phillips' article on a malaria vaccine. An ENGLISH vaccine developed by an ENGLISH team:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/23/st-george-jab-covid-malaria-little-old-england-saving-lives/

She also cites television and the telephone as great ENGLISH innovations, but whatever, the very Torygraph article she links to shows that the malaria vaccine is a big international effort:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/oxford-team-behind-covid-jab-develops-landmark-malaria-vaccine/

...and at least two of the team are Irish, and the work was funded by commercial partners in India, plus a grant from the EU:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-23-malaria-vaccine-becomes-first-achieve-who-specified-75-efficacy-goal

Oh yes, and the flag-shagging comments are making me nauseous.

Sorry, just pissed off at people not acknowedging that science is a big international effort and taking these tiny-minded attitudes.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: The Culture Bunker on April 27, 2021, 01:35:49 PM
Wonder if that news will make the GB News mob a bit nervous? Would be amusing if after a while the money men behind it all tell Neill and his cronies "look, drop the 'woke watch' shit, ok? You need to broaden the appeal".

The news has raised that question, but I wonder if it can be seen a less competition for GB News in some ways.

It's been reported that News UK internal memos said there were concerns about the return on investment for shareholders, so it might be that the channel is felt not commercially viable because of the scale of profit, rather than concerns that it won't be profitable.

News UK will now be looking to provide on-demand and live content for streaming services, which the radio arm has had success with, so sounds like they're be adapting a business model that has been working and requires less resources than a TV channel.

idunnosomename

This reminds me of Times Radio where it was like a year of "THRILLED to be joining @TimesRadio" then when it finally launched they had one cockup that got them trending and then nobody listened to it

Kankurette

They do know Alexander Graham Bell was a Scot?

steveh

ITV / ITN couldn't make a go of a rolling news channel and that was piggybacking on existing people and facilities and at a time when linear channels were more viable. GB News have to make it work on their own and with only advertising, not pay TV revenue.

Would be quite funny now if GB News decided they couldn't make a go of it either, leaving a large number of right-wing presenters with no platform. The delay in their launch could indicate deeper problems with the project.

The Culture Bunker

Quote from: steveh on April 27, 2021, 01:59:42 PMWould be quite funny now if GB News decided they couldn't make a go of it either, leaving a large number of right-wing presenters with no platform. The delay in their launch could indicate deeper problems with the project.
I have no doubt if this happens, it will all have been the fault of sabotage by "the intolerant left".

Blue Jam

Quote from: Kankurette on April 27, 2021, 01:52:43 PM
They do know Alexander Graham Bell was a Scot?

She could have added antibiotics to the list but didn't, that's something I guess.

Blue Jam

Quote from: The Culture Bunker on April 27, 2021, 02:02:43 PM
I have no doubt if this happens, it will all have been the fault of sabotage by "the intolerant left".

It could easily be blamed on Stop Funding Hate and advertisers being too frightened of "the wokerati" to advertise with them, and a lot of people would happily buy it.

Bit like the Co-op announcing they would no longer be advertising in The Spectator and Andrew Neill telling them "Yeah, well I didn't want your smelly adverts anyway":

https://mobile.twitter.com/afneil/status/1301822074982404096?lang=en

Blue Jam

Quote from: steveh on April 27, 2021, 01:59:42 PM
ITV / ITN couldn't make a go of a rolling news channel and that was piggybacking on existing people and facilities

There's always Gaunty's shed.

steveh

The scambusiness model is OnlyFans for the anti-woke:

Quote
GB News, in its base case, expects £40m revenue in its fifth year. Roughly a third of that is to come straight from 134,000 paying "members" given access to on-air talent, forums and exclusive content.

That member base exceeds the average of 111,000 viewers GB News expects across the day (it aims to roughly match Sky News's audience share). Executives, in essence, see the business as a digital platform with a TV station attached.

The model is similar to Fox Nation, a subscription-funded streaming offshoot for Fox News devotees. That venture is still testing what a digital future might look like for Fox News if cable television's decline rapidly accelerates. GB News, as a start-up, will need to make much faster progress.

https://www.ft.com/content/32078324-d4b5-44a9-b457-b3184c54b8bc

jobotic

I can pay extra to have access to the talent?

Nah, you're alright mate.

Paul Calf

Quote"This is digital radio. Repeat: this is digital radio. Do you read me, North Norfolk? Do you read me?"

"Alan, they read you," said a voice in my cans.

"Prepare your psyche for a new listening experience."

Fambo Number Mive

Imagine what their forums would be like.

Sebastian Cobb

This is supposed to launch Sunday.

I sort-of know someone who works in broadcast for a company that distribute for pretty much everyone. Stuff is still not configured and as of 4pm on a Friday they allegedly have no presentation.

Said guy is now in the position where they're going to have to do overtime on something they are morally opposed to.

Catalogue Trousers


Fambo Number Mive

Apparently GB News are going to broadcast via radio as well.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on June 11, 2021, 05:43:52 PM
Apparently GB News are going to broadcast via radio as well.

Presumably this was a decision made after Murdoch/Rebekah Brookes decided to sack off the TV idea and focus on Times Radio and podcast content.

Keeping their fingers in the pie if the tv thing doesn't pan out maybe?

The Dog

Quote from: Blue Jam on April 27, 2021, 02:03:13 PM
She could have added antibiotics to the list but didn't, that's something I guess.



German https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich invented the concept of antibiotics, and his team (actually a Japanese man) found the first one (Salvarsan, a cure for syphilis).

The first really successful broad spectrum antibiotics were the sulfonamides: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonamide_(medicine). These were discovered by a German working for a German company in Germany (
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prontosil
).

Sometimes people don't refer to these as antibiotics, because they are synthetic rather than naturally occurring chemicals. The first naturally occurring antibiotic was penicillin. Penicillin was discovered loads of times for hundreds of years by ancient Greeks, Indians, Poles, the French, and probably many others before it was finally discovered by Alexander Fleming. He basically ignored his discovery and didn't have much to do with its use as a drug ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin ).

That's why the Nobel prize for penicillin (the second
Nobel prize for antibiotics) went to two British men and an Australian. They were able to make the drug, but in order to make it in industrial quantities (which is, you know, important) they had to get help from Americans.

The Dog

Also, John Logie Baird's TV was absolute shit. It would need a big cardboard disc the size of a wardrobe spinning at close to the speed of sound in order to transmit about 30 lines of shadow. Mechanical TV was a stupid laughable idea. Proper electronic TV (CRT TV) was invented by a whole bunch of people from all around the world, but modern TVs don't work that way either.


Sebastian Cobb

Yeah there was no way Baird was going to win compared to the 405-line system.