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Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 4:53 am A French speaking African? Not a chance.

Edit: alright, not French speaking...but I bet he understands a few words.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:32 pm Reminds me of the story published by Popbitch a good while back of a flight from London to Belfast which Holmes was on and getting a lot of "fan attention" whilst Michael Fassbender was on the same flight whom no one said a word to right up to grabbing a taxi after departing.

Mark Lemar witnessed similar getting off a coach with some celebs. Shane Richie was mobbed while no one recognised Gary Oldman.

I see that Simon McCoy is Tweeting his support for Max Verstappen in today's F1 decider.

Very patriotic. I wonder if there is something about Lewis Hamilton that he doesn't like?

They’ve walked a long road from Andrew Neil

'Real Britain' being a minority of grumbling idiots in the corner of a pub asking why the trans community have taken away their jobs.

When I was a kid I used to read the Times. My parents got it. I noticed that in their birthdays column, there was a distinction between broadcaster and presenter. David Attenborough was a broadcaster, Noel Edmonds was a mere presenter.

Sic transit gloria mundi...

Radio DJs were upgraded to presenters due to any old arm waving twat calling themselves a DJ.

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:56 am 'Real Britain' being a minority of grumbling idiots in the corner of a pub asking why the trans community have taken away their jobs.

Darren's craft corner.

It's nice they're having cartoons now, though.

I'll just leave this here

Fledgling news and opinion channel GB News suffered from a major technical fault on Sunday morning. Hardly anyone noticed until a video of the fault was uploaded by the broadcaster.


https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/gb-news-suffe ... ical-fault

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:29 pm I'll just leave this here

Fledgling news and opinion channel GB News suffered from a major technical fault on Sunday morning. Hardly anyone noticed until a video of the fault was uploaded by the broadcaster.


https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/gb-news-suffe ... ical-fault

Facebook was awash with conspiracy:

The Marxist BBC has cut off there electricity.

And so forth.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:14 pm When I was a kid I used to read the Times. My parents got it. I noticed that in their birthdays column, there was a distinction between broadcaster and presenter. David Attenborough was a broadcaster, Noel Edmonds was a mere presenter.

Sic transit gloria mundi...

Reminds me of the running gag on Wogan's breakfast show for years regarding John Marsh (of Janet and John infamy) - John is not a journalist, he's a newsreader.

Speaking of radio, I see GBeebies Radio is on it's way in the new year. Considering Talk Radio is already a thing, is there the market for two complete lunatic fuckwit radio stations? And why do I worry about Dacre sitting there thinking "This gives me an idea...."

The All New KevS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 4:51 pm Speaking of radio, I see GBeebies Radio is on it's way in the new year. Considering Talk Radio is already a thing, is there the market for two complete lunatic fuckwit radio stations? And why do I worry about Dacre sitting there thinking "This gives me an idea...."

Well, the Mail tried TV in the mid-90s and it went nowhere. One of my colleagues worked for it.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/ ... dies/41018

(See also: Live! TV)

Thing is... radio is cheap. These days, all you need to do is to buy a slot on a DAB multiplex and off you go. Someone else has done all the hard work where transmitters are concerned.

Looking at the broadcaster who regularly appear on GB News it is probably fair to say that most of them have good faces for radio.

The existing formats are suitable for simultaneous radio broadcast. Didn’t FiveLive and BBC1 do that with Victoria Derbyshire Live?

Definitely. I was an audience member during that period.

According to BARB, no show on GBeebies between 20-26 December was seen by more than 50,000 viewers...

1 HEADLINERS (MON 23:00) 47,100
2 FARAGE (WED 19:00) 46,100
3 GB NEWS LIVE (SUN 11:00) 46,000
4 GB NEWS LIVE (FRI 09:00) 44,100
5 TONIGHT LIVE WITH DAN WOOTTON (MON 21:00) 41,800
6 MARK STEYN (FRI 19:00) 40,800
7 TONIGHT LIVE WITH DAN WOOTTON (WED 21:00) 39,600
8 DEWBS & CO (MON 18:00) 39,000
9 GB NEWS LIVE (SUN 11:59) 39,000
10 DEWBS & CO (WED 18:00) 37,700
11 DE PIERO: THE REAL ME (FRI 17:20) 37,200
12 GB NEWS LIVE (FRI 17:00) GB News 36,900
13 THE BRIEFING: AM WITH TOM HARWOOD (MON 09:00) 35,900
14 FARAGE (MON 19:00) 34,600
15 HEADLINERS (TUE 23:00) 34,200

WE SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO VOICE
THE SILENT MAJORITY

Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

Even the odious Dan Wooton can improve Farage’s viewing figures by over 15%.

Farage was only on 3 times that week, and gets 2 of those in the top 15, so he's a relative star of the network.

Then again that's like saying Extras is a relative star of the England batting line up at the moment. Can GB News sign up Joe Root?