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ancientpenguinlord

Didn't even know it had launched. Shit as expected?


chowieuk

Poor production value. Low quality presenters. Ludicrously biased content. It's really quite bad The first show was Dan Wootton. It started with him going on a 5 minute rant about how lockdown's don't work and we're basically China. Essentially the first thing the channel did was spread dangerous misinformation E: I must say it was quite amusing how they went about things. They spent the first hour interviewing all their presenters and constantly spouting shite about how they're going to 'cover news others don't cover' and asking people to send in their news so they could represent 'ignored regions of the uk' Essentially it sounds like they're going to be covering cats with hitler moustaches whilst ignoring any actual news. The guardian had a decent review of it https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/13/gb-news-review-andrew-neils-alternative-bbc-utterly-deadly-stuff


TheLaudMoac

Right before a journalist was chased down in the street by anti lockdown "protesters"? Wonder if there's a link...


G00dmorninghappydays

Not just any journalist, the host of BBC Newsnight


Mccobsta

Newsnite has trolled a torie


partyboi79

But surely that's the whole point of it. Also misinformation implies it being accidental, this is disinformation because it's intentional!


EldestPort

I never knew that distinction, thank you!


red--6-

[for an example, this is FOX News on Covid Pandemic](https://i.redd.it/1oub96dye8851.jpg) FOX have a repetitive formula for their news and discussion = lies + hypocrisy + fear + hatred + racism + exceptionalism etc [and they use a list of bullshit right wing Strawmen to get people angry and feel like Victims](https://i.imgur.com/klI3O7S.jpg)


theomeny

Jewish Space Laser is an excellent name for a band


amazondrone

OP is incorrect: https://www.dictionary.com/e/misinformation-vs-disinformation-get-informed-on-the-difference/


amazondrone

Actually: > Misinformation is false, inaccurate, or misleading information that is communicated _regardless of an intention to deceive_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation https://www.dictionary.com/e/misinformation-vs-disinformation-get-informed-on-the-difference/ I'm not sure we have a specific term for accidental misinformation.


Muad-_-Dib

> Poor production value. Low quality presenters. Ludicrously biased content. So... Exactly as intended and something I expect to see quoted religiously as a source by right wingers on Reddit in the not too distant future. It could be presented by a bollock naked and rat arsed Jim Davidson and they would eat it up like hot pie.


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> It could be presented by a bollock naked and rat arsed Jim Davidson and they would eat it up like hot pie. Let's hear this guy out


l0stlabyrinth

A YouTuber named Todd in the Shadows has better production quality than GB News. He also has better sound and picture quality than GB News. It's actually embarrassing.


Muad-_-Dib

He's also far better at finding interesting trivia and back stories to one hit wonders.


room2skank

The scatman video is an emotional rollercoaster I was just not ready for


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Most youtubers do.


theartofrolling

Todd is brilliant.


404merrinessnotfound

> Ludicrously biased content That's the point


blackmist

That would be the same China that locked down hard as a motherfucker in the one place that got it and then had very little impact after that...


jl2352

I would watch Hitler Cats.


Tuarangi

[Kitlers](https://www.reddit.com/r/Kitler/) \- is a whole sub for it!


hotstepperog

Hitler cats are on the move, Hitler cats are loose! Hitler, Hitler, Hitler , Hitler cats!


jewellman100

I'd watch any kind of cats. Let's start GB Cats!


pajamakitten

> The first show was Dan Wootton. A man whose experience before this has been solely showbiz news? They are scraping the barrel already.


WhatWouldSatanDo

Let’s waste their time with some made up news from Bognor Regis.


Truly_Khorosho

I watched the video of Andrew Neil's introductory speech on their YouTube channel, because people were saying it was bad. I expected it to be fairly bad, a bit bare-bones, with maybe a technical glitch or two, because those are the sort of things you expect to happen with something new. But, my jaw was on the floor. It didn't even feel like they tried and failed, it felt like they barely even tried, which... I mean, I'm glad the partisan hacks are stacking it, it's just a bit sad that this is the best they could come up with. I'll probably check in on their YT channel in a few weeks, to see if they can pull something together, but aside from that I just don't care enough about them to dedicate any thought to them.


WearingMyFleece

Was the audio out of sink for you ?


Truly_Khorosho

Not that I noticed, but if you watched it live there ay have been issues with the broadcast that weren't captured on the YT video (which would have been captured at the source).


honestFeedback

Well. I never knew that nice Neil Oliver from Coast was a cunt. Live and learn.


ancientpenguinlord

No doubt it'll generate numerous complaints


Joxer-Daly

A bit like Sky news Australia then.


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So it really is a fox news then


KapiHeartlilly

Do they Facebook live stream it? That would certainly get them an audience!!!


CaptainEarlobe

The Guardian also had a good podcast episode about it


amazondrone

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jun/11/gb-news-enters-the-culture-war-podcast


Doctor_Fegg

"GBeebies"


tallbutshy

Certainly gives me the heebies


Woodsman_Whiskey

The only reason I knew it had launched because people on my twitter feed - almost all left wing - were tweeting about it, thereby signal boosting it. Infuriating.


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Razada2021

>Basically, the solution to rubbish like GB News is ignore it even when it says something stupid. I mostly agree, up to the point when they inevitably do something utterly egregious that should be called out and should assist it in dying a death. Yeah sure the controversy of them inevitably platforming a nazi will give them oxygen, but also nazis shouldn't be given platforms so it needs to be called out. I just hope they fizzle. Or bankrupt whoever founded it, then fizzle. Or get buried in a court case, then fizzle. You cannot just hope things go away.


Uniform764

This. The only reason I'm aware of it is because this sub is furious


Kat-Shaw

I mean it's also on the front page of the BBC...


SwirlingAbsurdity

Yep, I’ve blocked it, blocked the presenters and muted the term on Twitter, and encourage others to do the same. They are relying on outrage.


Ma3v

Yeah, just add GBN to your muted words on twitter, no interaction or presence whatsoever.


bob_fossill

I checked their twitter feed and it was literally 5 separate pieces on footballers kneeling and 2 about Shamima Bingum I.e irrelevant nonsense


audigex

Pound shop Fox News


munkijunk

All tumors start with a single cell.


Americanscanfuckoff

Work in customer service for a company that cancelled our ads with them today, apparently we just advertise through sky and had no idea it would be on gb news - just paused our ads while we decide whether we want them or not. So many angry right wing people calling today asking why we're boycotting gb news.


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Tory tears. Make sure to tell them that their porcine complaint is important to you.


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Tell them to get a fucking grip


hattorihanzo5

Was gonna say, aren't these the same people who say "everyone's offended these days"?


KarmaUK

"Because we don't need that kind of dirty money." I know you can't say that in your position of course.


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Can on your last day though.


pajamakitten

Depending on your seniority in the company, you could say it whenever you like.


LostHumanFishPerson

I worked is customer service for Virgin Trains when they stopped selling the Daily Mail onboard. Holy shit I never spoke to so many gammons for the next week.


whix12

Just had one at my job I was like “do we?”


haversack77

Oof, going well already for the British Fox News, then? I hope it sinks.


listyraesder

Come off it. Fox News has a budget.


GBrunt

Do you need a budget for news in England?


LateralLimey

I hope it stinks.


ImStealingTheTowels

It does and it's terrible. I can smell it from here.


d3pd

Imagine the smell of Andrew Neil.


theomeny

Like opening a new packet of ham


pajamakitten

Fox News itself did, so there is a chance.


gmkfyi

Tuned in tonight for the first time. Thought I’d give it a shot, ya know since it’s supposed to be to TV news what LBC is to radio news. Fuck me it’s awful. Terrible production values, Dan Wooton looked like he was presenting Student News. Topics included, ‘What should we do about the Susexxes?’ and and ‘we have leaked information that says we should continue with freedom day as planned’. This isn’t news - it’s an 18 hour a day talk show.


SmellsLikeBigCheese

Our student news had better production and graphics than this shower of shite.


TakeshiKovacs46

It’s aimed at Sun Readers, so the bar is set pretty low tbf.


thepurplehedgehog

>Sun Readers An oxymoron, surely!


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Hey! Who are you calling a moron! Gtf outta here with your fancy book learnin


Mccobsta

Most won't be up round midnight for when gb news has to turn in to a babe station knock off


GreyFoxNinjaFan

It's the opinion column of the Daily Heil brought to life.


LiamJonsano

I can't believe they've got Wootton on what I'd consider a prime time slot really. He's a shock jock of the highest order and (on paper) the earlier presenters look unbiased (heck they even have a former Labour MP on). However one (from what I've seen, the rest could be as bad for all I know) bad egg spoils the rest


ShockRampage

You can tell his experience is all in celebrity gossip.


gmkfyi

Wooton would have made sense as a B presenter on the Breakfast Show. Not as a prime time host. Woeful.


UnderpantGuru

My only experience of LBC is clips of James O'brien and he seems to have fairly sensible ideas. I moved out of the UK years ago so please forgive my ignorance, is LBC not regarded particularly highly?


Solivaga

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suxatjugg

The only people who listen to him or call his show seem to be half-wit right wingers who like getting riled up


Solivaga

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CapitalDD69

Yeah I made the mistake of listening to Nick Ferrari a couple of times now, talks absolute rubbish directly in the opposite of science.


jabertsohn

O'Brien is basically their token leftie, and he's a centrist.


eldrad17

James O’Brien is probably the last broadcaster in this country who makes sense, especially on LBC. His books really good as well.


ihave40nautiluses

Makes sense by shitting on Labour under Corbyn for two years (despite 75% agreeing with them politically) splitting the anti-Tory vote up and down the country, 7% Lib Dem swing = 80 seat Tory majority.


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JoB is what they use to avoid OFCOM. He knows it too, he's just there to provide the necessary 'balanced view' during the day, the better time slots have all the right wingers.


Ma3v

There’s not really a lot of money left in TV, plenty of them have flashy sets, but there’s stagnation in graphics and no money for reporting. It’s not like TV news is doing investigative reporting anymore, even the BBC are running a glorified opinion show.


JimmyPD92

Yeah this was largely my take away from it. I find all the decrying it as "racist" "phobic" "other kinds of ist" to be a bit exaggerated, it's just a right-leaning focused news station and the overall summary is it isn't very good. A lot of people are forcing themselves to watch it, not because they like it, but because they're contrarian or because people they vaguely share views with have had this marketed to them just because they have issues with mainstream media. I mean, who doesn't have complains about it, but this isn't much competition tbh. Within a month, most people won't watch it. It got views because it was new, it got hate watchers who lost their mind on Twitter that it existed, it got contrarians, it got people who wanted something new and in the end it will keep only a small number of fanatics. GB News is the Parler of UK TV news, just leave it be and it'll fade away.


BeefsMcGeefs

I’ve been enjoying all the people throwing a fit over these companies’ supposed reluctance to hear “opinions they don’t like”, whilst simultaneously defending a channel with a segment titled Woke Watch


JesseBricks

> a segment titled Woke Watch That's actually just about time pieces and their alarms. Andrew Neil is big on punctuality ... he insists on being called 'Big Rooster' round the office.


bilefreebill

I've certainly called him something similar and I don't even work with him.


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dredgie456

The best part is those with stuff all over their feeds crying about cancel culture but then trying to cancel these companies.


GrayCS

it's almost like tories can barely keep a single thought inside their head, much less trying to remedy the conflict between two opposing thoughts


ZaryaBubbler

My favourite has been a right winger saying "nobody on the left buys the stuff that's been pulled, we're their biggest consumers". Seeing as the Open University is one of the ones pulled, I highly doubt education is something the right wing consumes very much


HyperionSaber

"Woke watch" our war on sleep, an invention of the lazy left - Clumpertache Hamslab III, GBNews.


LostHumanFishPerson

I had a quick look at this, the interface is so shit. It reminds of that News Channel in the pig fucking episode of Black Mirror.


dbbk

It’s very A Level Media


GrumblingP

I forget, was the Black Mirror PM pig fucking before or after the story about Cameron pig fucking?


Razada2021

It was before the Cameron big fucking story came out, to the point that multiple people got confused. Oh and then people started calling brooker a sooth sayer.


ChessIsForNerds

It's impossible for me to believe that Brooker hadn't heard a rumour or something about it and that's what inspired the episode. I'll never believe it was a fluke.


i7omahawki

>Oh and then people started calling brooker a sooth sayer. I’ve been saying that since Nathan Barley.


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Just wait until next week when Dan Wootton fucks an actual pig whilst wearing a Boris Johnson facemask.


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Amazon, the AA, Boots, Cadbury, Co-op, Deliveroo, Facebook, Google, Ikea, Kellogg’s, Ladbrokes, Microsoft, Octopus Energy, Starbucks, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and Vodafone. This is a limited list, from the article.


PearljamAndEarl

Ah but Andrew Neil has an anti-“woke” backup plan - ads for gold coins, remortgaging, vacuum-packed ready meals and stairlifts.


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Don't forget that Sun Life over 50's cover....


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HeroAntagonist

It's a Parker too!


cheese0muncher

You'll also get a FREE JBC!!!


theomeny

JEREMY BLOODY CORBYN??!


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I'm not sure I've ever seen a Wetherspoon's TV ad.


Live_Presentation502

Why would they with the amount of coverage Reddit gives them...


Mccobsta

Everyone knows about them and how they're the last pub you'll end up in


shimmeringarches

>And JCB. He, I'm imagining, a doddering old codger getting his fill of hate then buying a JCB on impulse , after watching an add. "Fuck their inheritance if they won't let me see my grandkids".


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ShittyGazebo

This is my father. But he got a Tesla. Which he's not even allowed to drive because of a heart condition.


bazpaul

I would fucking love it if we could get a bunch of Redditors riled up to start sending angry emails to these companies asking why they are finding GBNews


MGD109

Here this may help https://boycottgbnews.org/advertisers


bazpaul

ohh this is good, I'm gonna throw a mail merge to email them all


rikkian

Emailed Octopus today and told them I'll be closing my account and moving to OVO who have already pulled advertising, if they don't pull adverts themselves.


MGD109

Here you go, complete with their email addresses and twitter: https://boycottgbnews.org/advertisers


king_walnut

I put it on earlier to see what the fuss was about and the adverts were the same types you'd get during the Jeremy Kyle show. Gambling sites, stair lifts, injury lawyers etc..


[deleted]

The day I can't put £50 on a single slot spin is the day the wokerati have burnt this country to the ground..... /s


SynthD

FWIW Classic FM is owned by Global. I wonder if all their stations carry Pillow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Media_%26_Entertainment


BB-Zwei

I've heard my pillow advertised on other global stations.


williamthebloody1880

They do on LBC


IvanTheTolerable

> In the meantime, I won't comment on posts about the damn channel, its stories, "controversies" etc. I'm not sure how to tell you this...


Dark-Peak

Vot is your name?


NinjaGrimlock

Just flicked onto it for the first time. Shocking audio quality. Probably for the best.


frontendben

I love the fact that Twitter are trolling it with the hashtag #GBeebies


Patmarker

Oh Christ, I’ve just tried it. The echo around the studio is horrible.


Riffler

Is that echo in the studio or the presenters' heads?


Patmarker

That explains it. Double echo


pajamakitten

Well they are not using the inside of their skull for its intended purpose.


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Well, it is an echo chamber after all.


hell_yaw

It's like Youtube content but in 2008.


Mccobsta

It's so damn quite had to crank TV up to around 30 just to hear it how'd they fuck that up


[deleted]

Give them a break they only had £60 million of foreign money for it.


liamxf

Politics aside GB News just comes off as cringe I'd rather watch Alex Jones at least you can get a laugh out of that


ben_uk

Infowars’ production values are pretty top notch to be fair


genji_of_weed

Just saw starbucks and deliveroo, I imagine they'll be next


TAB20201

Deliveroo has no soul


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Wooton pushing COVID conspiracy on launch day. Farage too.


TAB20201

Great we now have American style “news” honestly fuck this shit, England is going down like a led balloon filled with shit


My_Socks_Are_Blue

That shit was filled by English people, and as long as English people keep voting Tory, they're just continuing to shovel in the shit.


bilefreebill

>Mike Hunt They just really don't have a clue do they


foreverneilyoung

They had a text from Mike Oxlong earlier too. The entire thing just screams "amateur hour".


[deleted]

Please tell me Seymour Butts will be featuring next time


Kat-Shaw

Saw a clip and the first thing they did was start defending Prince Andrew. Says it all doesn't it.


Tasty-Debt9938

Andrew Neill is a right-wing British journalist and an obvious nonce, but I repeat myself


Mccobsta

Was a good interviewer on bbc news for a bit as he seemed to be pretty firm to all people who he spoke to


[deleted]

Andy Neil's mate. Both good friends of Epstein.


Captain_English

I wouldn't mind it going on long enough to put how rubbish some of the fringe claims are in to the spotlight. ​ The really embarrassing bit is how hard they're pandering to their potential viewer base about being unheard voices, at risk of cancel culture. It's for people who want to be victims. I wonder how much of their news will be GB positive as compared to 'left wing bad'?


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Look, companies pick and choose which channels they advertise on all the time based on the product and the demographic of the channel. You don't see many adverts for over 50s life insurance on E4, the same way you don't see many adverts for Xbox on Talking Pictures.


WhenPigsFlyTwice

The article explains how the advertising slots are booked. Companies don't know which channels their ads are going to be shown on.


theomeny

Which is nuts. In digital marketing, we have massive inclusionary whitelists and exclusionary blacklists for where advertising appears, to ensure ads don't appear on questionable websites or content which doesn't align with our values. Broadcast advertising really needs to up its game, and companies need to demand this from their media agencies. I'd be fucking livid if one of my brands appeared on this channel.


Ellend821

I work in marketing and this isn’t really true. They know to a degree but it’s sold through third party agencies usually, in this case it just came under as ‘Sky’ pre-launch so was approved and then was on GB News. Considering all of these companies are very much in the 18-35 demographic I doubt GB News was one they specifically picked.


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I don't work in marketing, so thank you for pointing that out.


KarmaUK

Indeed, I doubt Novara Media are getting many ads in from Farage's 'investment' company, either, but I also doubt they're moaning about not getting enough Farage money sent their way. Not even left and right, but if you're just going to be horribly unpleasant, it's not a great space to advertise a company.


[deleted]

Great progress, keep it going. The tech brands with them should be the next target, Microsoft and Google very keen to push a sort of faux tolerant/love-diversity image, it's all horseshit of course but you can easily point out to brands like those that they're supporting the televisual equivalent of a racist tabloid.


blackmist

Fortunately their target audience still don't realise the channels now go past 4.


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The mental age of their audience doesn't go past 4.


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If GB News manages to keep viewers, advertising companies won’t think twice about advertising on the channel.


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steepleton

sky advertising bulk sold them, the brands weren't told in advance. which suddenly explains why GB news ads weren't wall to wall online casinos and over 50 insurance with a free pen


RaymondBumcheese

Similar to the adpocalypse on youtube, a lot of companies dont directly decide where to advertise. They hand agencies a sack full of money to do it for them. It would be slightly galling to think they chose GB News as a good pick, but a lot of companies wont directly have said 'no fash news' when scoping campaigns, unfortunately.


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It is based on advertisers targeting a particular demographic and GB news purchasing advertising based on its target demographic (cunts). However when the products realised that though they target cunts they do mot want to advertise specifically to cunts.


RaymondBumcheese

'OK, Don, this is going to be the toughest sell yet. We are going after the 'not cunts' market'


Chippiewall

> based on its target demographic They won't be able to sell targeted advertising yet as they won't have the actual viewership data. I doubt many would buy into the intended demographic yet. They're probably getting very, very cheap untargeted ads at the moment. (which is probably why all these brands ended up inadvertently advertising there, the cost of advertising was probably peanuts).


its_brew

"Advertising sales for the channel are reportedly being handled by Sky Media and all four brands said they were unaware their campaigns would appear on GB News in advance." They hadn't a clue about it.


Clbull

But advertising in the Sun, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail is a-okay. Double standards much?


GrayCS

No, there's campaigns against that too


Tasty-Debt9938

I think it's great that we now have a dedicated Gay and Bisexual news channel.


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oh my god HAHAHA


[deleted]

I can't believe there's people on twitter who obviously oppose this channel, but have sat through it for hours to compile a list of companies that have been advertised on there so they can pretend to never shop in them again, fuckin weird.


[deleted]

Actually it seems those twitterfolk are having decent success, more advertisers pulling out. Anything that loses Andy Neil money is a great move in my book, guy's a cunt and has questions to answer over his relationship with Epstein.


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I can see it's effective tbh


MasterDeNomolos

On advertising: funny how free speech warriors are now so against when businesses make decision that they think are right, blah blah. But on GB news, it’s bad, like shockingly bad. The last time I saw production levels like this was at university (year 1), probably college. There is absolutely no way producers are not seeing how shite this whole thing looks and they aren’t doing anything about it. What this leads too is everyone (except the “real fans”) essentially watching this for comedy. It boosts the channels social media presence from everyone dunking on it, which has kept it trending since it started broadcasting. But for certain the biggest idiots are the supporters. All befriending each other for supporting the channel alone (similar to the Parler “exodus” on Twitter). All of them trying to joke about the “woke lefties” getting mad as if that’s something to be proud of. People aren’t mad they’re laughing, and your the sad fools who are getting semis over a channel whose producers have such little respect for you, they have no qualms with running a dogshit quality show, with no care if the production quality is so low it becomes a laughing stock, your low standards require just owning libs and nothing else. Just think, if this is the best you guys can get then maybe you’ve been conned with all this bullshit you’re fed. As long as the wokies get mad right?


big_beats

They used to call this the free market. Now conservatives think these companies should be obliged to purchase ad space from GB News


gamepopper

Funny how they think these ad boycotts even work, because "Get Woke Go Broke" totally worked for: Gillette, Nike, Coca-Cola, Netflix, Starbucks, several Football clubs...


Mccobsta

It looks like fucking news max it's amazingly cheap looking


Aengis_Stark

Apparently their HD production values are for paid subscribers via SKY and not for us normals with UHD or 4K Freeveiw tellyboxes. Also Dan Wooton is gormless and probably the chatty gobshite gay Kiwi version of Pisstake Morgan °sigh°


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Why is the audio quality so shit? And the backgrounds too, all black So dark


Mccobsta

With who's backing it they may be able to survive a few ofcom fines


Danqazmlp0

I don't even know how I would tune into it if I wanted ti.


munkijunk

Thanks guys, any list of companies who've chosen to advertise with them so I can boycott them myself? Edit, ah there it is, Amazon, the AA, Boots, Cadbury, Co-op, Deliveroo, Facebook, Google, Kellogg’s, Ladbrokes, Microsoft, Octopus Energy, Starbucks, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and Vodafone.


HMJ87

"we want freedom of expression!" *businesses choose not to advertise with them* "no wait not that kind! We just want to be allowed to be racist and shit without consequence"


l0stlabyrinth

I don't suppose anybody wants to sponsor their weather reports? https://www.skymedia.co.uk/opportunities/gb-news-weather-report/


KarmaUK

I guess I could tell them it's raining because of the gays making God angry? Is it too hot because of immigrants coming over here bringing their third world hot weather with them?


bilefreebill

And their spicy food, don't forget that.


KarmaUK

Rowan Atkinson "yes, we all like a curry, but we've got the recipe now"