GB News

[Mojo]

Wasn't there a problem that the major ad agencies had 'blacked' GB News, so that some of the major advertisers could not get their ads on GB News? If I remember correctly, GB News recently moved their ad business from London to Manchester, and that enabled them to tap into some different agencies which represented some national advertisers.

I’d not heard that and can’t find any evidence online though doesn’t mean it isn’t true. GBNews have all its advertising sold through Sky Media since launch.

 

[dosxuk]

Wasn't there a problem that the major ad agencies had 'blacked' GB News, so that some of the major advertisers could not get their ads on GB News? If I remember correctly, GB News recently moved their ad business from London to Manchester, and that enabled them to tap into some different agencies which represented some national advertisers.

It wasn't the agencies that were deciding not to work with GB News, but the advertisers themselves.

In the early days of the channel, there was at least one major advertiser who was unaware they had adverts on there until it was caught up in one of the outrages. I believe that subsequent to that incident, that Sky (who sell the advert space on the channel), now offer advertisers a choice of whether their content will be shown on such controversial stations - I don't remember whether it's an opt-in or opt-out process though, but either way it will reduce the number of adverts available to be shown.

 

[ld0595]

Jacob Rees-Mogg is the latest recruit.

Jacob Rees-Mogg joins GB News as he hails ‘bastion of free speech’

Tory MP will tackle political issues as well as 'good Somerset cider'

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Cabinet minister, is joining GB News in a major coup for the outspoken broadcaster.

The Conservative backbencher will host his own show on the network, debating current affairs and interviewing guests.

He will also take his show on tour, broadcasting in front of live audiences in towns and cities across the country.

Mr Rees-Mogg, the MP for North East Somerset since 2010, is expected to tackle a variety of political issues, as well as other interests including classic cars and “good Somerset cider”.

After serving as Brexit Opportunities minister under Boris Johnson and briefly as Business Secretary in Liz Truss’s Cabinet, Mr Rees-Mogg resigned to the backbenches in October when Rishi Sunak entered Downing Street.

Mr Rees-Mogg, who has already made regular appearances on GB News, will become the third sitting MP to present their own show on the channel.

 

[Typhoon]

So they now have Nigel Farage, Michael Portillo, Esther McVey, Phillip Davies, Arlene Foster, Laurence Fox, Mark Steyn, Camilla Tominey, Andrew Pierce and Rees Mogg. Balanced?

 

[class ep-09]

What a freak show .

 

[YorkshireBear]

I love it that they can say they are balanced, with a straight face, with that as their line up

 

[johncrossley]

I love it that they can say they are balanced, with a straight face, with that as their line up

The way UK broadcasting is regulated means that you don't have to have a balanced line up of presenters. The presenters are allowed to express their views but alternative viewpoints must be allowed, for example from panel guests, phone-ins or messages from viewers. American style talk stations where a presenter goes on a 3 hour monologue aren't allowed in the UK.

 

[jon0844]

They are going to have (or have already had) Katie Price on as a guest with Farage, and that's someone who may well appear more often now most of the media has given up on her.

 

[nlogax]

Have to admit Mogg at the helm of a chat show sounds like such a terrible idea that I will feel duty-bound to at least take a peek.

 

[Typhoon]

Have to admit Mogg at the helm of a chat show sounds like such a terrible idea that I will feel duty-bound to at least take a peek.

I would make sure I had set an alarm, if I were you, His delivery is so dull and clinical; he reminds me of a vicar we had in the '50s. Still, cheaper than hot chocolate.

 

[birchesgreen]

I would make sure I had set an alarm, if I were you, His delivery is so dull and clinical; he reminds me of a vicar we had in the '50s. Still, cheaper than hot chocolate.

For a moment there i thought you meant the band.

Imagine turning up for a gig and finding it was a JRM poetry recital instead.

 

[brad465]

Will he demand it's broadcast in monochrome?

 

[nlogax]

Will he demand it's broadcast in monochrome?

On the Baird system of course.

I would make sure I had set an alarm, if I were you, His delivery is so dull and clinical; he reminds me of a vicar we had in the '50s. Still, cheaper than hot chocolate.

Just caught up with my favourite periodical of choice (Popb***h) suggesting that Nadine Dorries has also been approached to host a late night Gbeebies show. More and more the channel is resembling a liferaft for Tory frootloops.

 

[birchesgreen]

On the Baird system of course.

I would have thought a zoetrope.

 

[Mojo]

Just caught up with my favourite periodical of choice (Popb***h) suggesting that Nadine Dorries has also been approached to host a late night Gbeebies show. More and more the channel is resembling a liferaft for Tory frootloops.

I think there is some confusion here as Nadine is actually hosting a show on TalkTv - starts next Friday. First guest… Boris Johnson.

 

[Typhoon]

For a moment there i thought you meant the band.

Imagine turning up for a gig and finding it was a JRM poetry recital instead.

... in Latin, ... or Greek.

Will he demand it's broadcast in monochrome?

or sepia.

 

[adc82140]

I think there is some confusion here as Nadine is actually hosting a show on TalkTv… starts next Friday. First guest… Boris Johnson.

I wouldn't bet on it- she's got to find the studio first, and her own front door.

 

[Typhoon]

I think there is some confusion here as Nadine is actually hosting a show on TalkTv - starts next Friday. First guest… Boris Johnson.

Unfortunately, it hasn't started well ...

Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has been accused by Parliament’s anti-corruption watchdog of breaking Government rules by not consulting the body before taking a new job at TalkTV. Ms Dorries will host a new Friday-night talk show on TalkTV but in a letter to the Conservative MP the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) chair Lord Pickles said “failing to seek and await advice before the role was announced or taken up in this case is a breach of the Government’s rules and the requirements set out in the ministerial code”.

Detail was never her strong-point. (For instance, her knowledge of the funding of Channel 4).

[uri]https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...sedgntp&cvid=89f0a88718974bb2b4647510fa35e5d9[/URL]

 

[nlogax]

I think there is some confusion here as Nadine is actually hosting a show on TalkTv - starts next Friday. First guest… Boris Johnson.

Ok, I like watching gormless meat puppets on tv making fools of themselves as much as anyone but I really do draw the line at that gruesome duo. She’ll be a fawning, dribbling incoherent fool and he’ll be his usual bumbling Eton mess.

 

[Typhoon]

The Dorries-Johnson story is ongoing.

WARNING: Some Most readers may find the picture in the source article offensive, caution is advised.

Nadine Dorries has been given her own Friday night talk show - and will interview former boss Boris Johnson after incessantly calling for his return.

The shamed former Prime Minister, who was booted out of office last year after a rebellion by his own MPs, will be the first guest on new show Friday Night With Nadine, TalkTV has announced.

The chat will be aired on February 3.

Ms Dorries, who served as culture secretary between 2021 and last year, is Mr Johnson's most steadfast ally - this month claiming Tories should bring him back 'or die '.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-biggest-fan-nadine-29067446

 

[jon0844]

They're going to die anyway, and Boris isn't coming back - at least in time for the election. This will be a grift to claim later that the loss was due to getting rid of Boris, and that he must be involved in the rebuilding of the party (which will likely see them failing to get back in five years later).

 

[365 Networker]

Disappointingly, Mark Steyn has left the channel today:-

Mark Steyn Quits GB News Over Attempts to Make Him Liable for Ofcom Fines

Mark Steyn has quit GB News on fairly bad terms after a protracted leave of absence owing to his health. A few weeks ago Guido picked up that the channel

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Mark Steyn has quit GB News on fairly bad terms after a protracted leave of absence owing to his health. A few weeks ago Guido picked up that the channel had been trying to formalise Steyn’s contract with the channel, having operated on a fairly ad hoc basis since starting his show. Part of trying to get him on board as a properly contracted presented was also an attempt to rein in his output, given that in a rather short space of time he’d managed to spark two separate Ofcom investigations into things said on his show.

GBN set a deadline for him to sign the contract, otherwise he’d face termination. It now looks like that deadline has passed and Steyn is out.

 

[Mojo]

Yes - quite unfortunate news as he was one of their top presenters if a little crazy and OTT. He hasn’t been around for a while since his heart attacks but posted a video on his Twitter page last week with his studio backdrop saying he was coming back.

 

[Gloster]

The Grauniad is reporting that the broadcaster wanted him to be the one to pay any Ofcom fines and costs, even though the company should be liable. Steyn claims that he would be liable despite having no say in any defence: I concede that this is hardly a fair situation, but he strikes me as the sort of person who would support it if it was happening to someone he disliked (quite a lot of people, by the sound of it). All this has, according to the Grauniad, led to some viewers suggesting that ‘the channel has itself sold out to shadowy globalist forces’.

Source: Grauniad. (Sorry, I can’t do a link.)

 

[MikeWM]

Disappointingly, Mark Steyn has left the channel today:-

Indeed disappointing, if probably not surprising. I suspect that GBNews needed Steyn (and his collection of regular guests, most of whom aren't likely to go near GBNews again after this) more than Steyn needed GBNews, and they may realise that rather quickly.

Personally, I found Steyn's show to have exactly the right mix of humour, disdain and anger for the ever-increasing-craziness of the modern world. If nothing else, he deserves much credit for being pretty much the only TV presenter to pick up and stick with the stories of those injured and bereaved by the covid vaccines, and the disgusting treatment they have received by our government. He was also pretty much the only TV presenter (that I'm aware of) to regularly discuss the appalling ongoing treatment of Julian Assange.

It also doesn't reflect well on GBNews to require someone who has just recovered from a major illness to sign a significantly detrimental new contract, simply for wanting to pick up the job they had been doing successfully before their illness. That would be poor behaviour in any industry.

 

[SynthD]

Will the channel survive when Neil Oliver leaves, presumably soon?

 

[365 Networker]

Indeed disappointing, if probably not surprising. I suspect that GBNews needed Steyn (and his collection of regular guests, most of whom aren't likely to go near GBNews again after this) more than Steyn needed GBNews, and they may realise that rather quickly.

Yes - it does seem the channel may be drifting towards being “controlled opposition“ - indeed I have recently stopped listening to Talk Radio as they simply refuse now to talk about subjects such as vaccine harms. I will still watch Farage and Neil Oliver for now, although it remains to be seen how long they will stick around. It’s interesting to note that Dan Wootton and Michelle Dewberry (both GB presenters) tweeted in support of Steyn last week - they have not currently been deleted. Perhaps we may see some resignations? Overall, I feel disappointed and let down by this whole situation - I really believed this channel might be different.

 

[davews]

Indeed sorry to see Mark leave but it was inevitable. Both GB News and Talk (TV)/Radio seem to be drifting away from the stations they used to be and I find myself watching less and less. They also seem to be obsessed with our Californian Royal couple which have long since bored me to tears. If Dan Wootton and Neil Oliver leave it will probably be the final straw but still cannot get back to listening to Radio 4. And of course BBC News will be changing their format in the spring which will no doubt be in the wrong direction. Back to Classic FM....

 

[MikeWM]

I will still watch Farage and Neil Oliver for now, although it remains to be seen how long they will stick around.

Neil Oliver remains my favourite show of the week, but agreed that it is unclear how long he will continue doing it, at least in the way he does (mixing the rather controversial stuff with segments on people who find fossils and run lots of marathons - I wonder if GBNews expected rather more of the latter and rather less of the former when giving him the show in the first place).

Calvin Robinson's Sunday show is about the only other thing I watch on there now, and that has inexplicably been chopped in half since Christmas, so I wonder how much longer that has to run either. Was interesting to note Calvin writing a thread on twitter last night entitled 'Ofcom is the problem', which seems unlikely to be coincidental timing.

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Indeed sorry to see Mark leave but it was inevitable. Both GB News and Talk (TV)/Radio seem to be drifting away from the stations they used to be and I find myself watching less and less. They also seem to be obsessed with our Californian Royal couple which have long since bored me to tears. If Dan Wootton and Neil Oliver leave it will probably be the final straw but still cannot get back to listening to Radio 4. And of course BBC News will be changing their format in the spring which will no doubt be in the wrong direction. Back to Classic FM....

Yes, I've mostly lost patience with Dan Wootton and his endless witterings about Harry and Meghan. I know his background is in royal reporting, but I couldn't be less interested in the royal soap opera if I tried. He's good on other stuff but there is too little of that in his show now - and some of his 'Ofcom-compliant' 'balance' guests are close to unbearable.

As for Classic FM, at least I *can* listen to it again now, given they're not running government propaganda adverts every 5 minutes in the way they were, along with every other radio station, in 2020 and 2021.

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My problem here is not just that I rather liked Steyn's show, but that the whole affair is a chilling reminder of how much free speech is clipped in this country. An 'independent' TV news channel is restricted in what it can say by what is effectively a censorship bureau, that takes instructions directly from the government, as to what is allowed to be discussed and what is not. We used to be very critical of that sort of thing when other countries did it.

And what is our government's response to this? To pass the Online 'Safety' Bill, to put what is published on the internet under the censorship regime of Ofcom as well! As Steyn himself said on many occasions, it should be utterly unthinkable for a supposedly conservative government to even consider such a thing, let alone push it through. Not good at all.

 

[DC1989]

Do GB News talk about Brexit? The MSM seem to be petrified of mentioning the B word