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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 4:37 pm Is it possible to do TV as cheaply as the Express does newspapers? I'd guess not. Then again, GB News doesn't really need to cover costs, does it?

Can't remember where I read it, but they are supposedly looking to raise £30 million in order to keep it going. A Wingnut Welfare machine it may be, but there's no bottomless pit to keep it going it appears.

That is encouraging. No wonder Paul Marshall wants the (profitable) Telegraph stuff.

The last time the channel was bailed out they need £60m, the fact that they only want £30m probably suggests that the channel only intends to hang around until the next election. If the Tories lose the election GB News will become totally irrelevant.

They may or may not hang around, and obviously I hope they don't. But if they do, I fear they'll be very relevant to the Tory Opposition. Without power, the radicalisation will be even worse.

I suppose it might depend on how big a majority Labour are able to achieve. If Labour wins a large majority will the channels backers keep coughing up £30 or £40m a year for the next 5 years?

The station may also face a new Ofcom regime with teeth. Investing in real news to retain its licence won’t be cheap.

They started off saying they'd be the voice of the people, news relevant to you, not obsessed with the Westminster bubble etc. Now they're a series of talking heads rehashing the same talking points about the Westminster bubble, and news where you are seems to have taken a back seat.

Which of course was always the plan. I just wonder sometimes if Sid and Doris Bonkers ever feel cheated, or are OK with it as long as it's their side.

Guess which channel's presenter is joining in with this shit? Lawyer does job of lawyer.

Should have learned from Noddy Holder who quit while he was ahead.

Shouldn't have pissed off Harold Wilson.

If you’re fed up with the lefty woke MSM, they’re keeping it festive with religious themes over on GBeebies.

Arlene Foster and DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson discuss the positive benefit that religion has made to politics in Northern Ireland and there should be more of it in Westminster. https://x.com/gbnews/status/17393628765 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

Rees Mogg also agrees with Arlene and blames the lefties https://x.com/gbnews/status/17393502936 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

Rees Mogg is joined by David Starkey who discusses the Puritans banning Christmas (which they didn’t) and why they’re like the wokes.
https://x.com/gbnews/status/17393867840 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

Here some ex CoE rentagob laying into the King’s Speech as too woke and should have been slagging off Muslims
https://x.com/gbnews/status/17393270297 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 8:23 am Should have learned from Noddy Holder who quit while he was ahead.

Sadly, Noddy was being interviewed on GBeebies today.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:42 pm
Sadly, Noddy was being interviewed on GBeebies today.

Oh fuck, was he? Noddy was my first musical hero (when I was about 8, I think), I thought he was one of the good guys.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:27 am

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:42 pm
Sadly, Noddy was being interviewed on GBeebies today.

Oh fuck, was he? Noddy was my first musical hero (when I was about 8, I think), I thought he was one of the good guys.

I don't suppose the politics of a TV station matter much when there's a pension to be topped up.

TBF while GBeebies is a cesspool, I wouldn't bat an eyelid if Noddy Holder or Roy Wood were interviewed by the Telegraph or the Express TBH - what they say and what context is key IMO. Anne Diamond has done some weekend shows on the station but otherwise still appears to be a decent person, the same can probably go for Angela Rippon.

To be honest, I'd be very surprised if a multi-millionaire in his seventies didn't feel more at home with Mail readers than with us.

Channel for enraged couch potatoes turns its ire on Parkrun.

How the fuck does a fucking fun run in the park have anything to do with gender or identity?

Actually, let's go one further. Make sure we get all the fuckers, so any bloke in a dress - even the lads from the rugby club dressed up as St Trinians for charity - gets banned from everything everywhere.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:56 pm How the fuck does a fucking fun run in the park have anything to do with gender or identity?

Actually, let's go one further. Make sure we get all the fuckers, so any bloke in a dress - even the lads from the rugby club dressed up as St Trinians for charity - gets banned from everything everywhere.

Permanent outrage is permanent.

Parkrun isn't a race, it is a timed run for people of all ages and ability. Earlier this week the Daily Mail was banging on about world records etc but Parkrun world records are fairly meaningless because every course is different, some are very flat others are hilly, there is a Parkrun in Devon which is entirely on sand and on in the Lake District where the course is nearly always muddy. At Parkrun you are essentially running against yourself trying to improve on previous times so it really doesn't matter what gender you identify as.