[Boiler]

Imagine the reaction to Wooton strolling into a flat roofed pub on a hard estate in Sunderland.

We can but dream.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I really don't need to hear more from this guy.

[Rosvanian]

I've not heard of this bloke until now but then again, he's operating in a crowded field. Glanced at his GB News bio where he says he says he learned his trade under Kelvin McKenzie at the end of the golden age of journalism. In a recent tweet he describes the striking railway workers as 'evil'.

So, to summarise, he's just another jumped up right wing gobshite working for The Man.

[satnav]

I wonder how Patrick Christy justifies his own salary. He probably pulls in less than 30,000 viewers yet his salary will dwarf that of a broadcaster working in local radio with similar audience figures. GBNews is only able to operate due to the generosity of the rich oligarchs who keep investing more cash in the loss making operation.

[Spoonman]

Story from the Granuiad mainly about the ongoing crises/soap opera that is behind-the-scenes at Talk TV, but it has this about the GBeebies wingnut-welfare machine...

More embarrassingly, Morgan is being consistently thrashed in the ratings by ex-Ukip leader Nigel Farage on GB News. The rival rightwing channels are fighting over the same relatively small pool of viewers, but so far it looks as though GB News – despite its own disastrous launch – is consistently coming out on top by appealing to a small core British audience rather than aiming for wider appeal.

Both outlets are reportedly currently financially unsustainable, with questions over their long-term future. GB News secured funding from a range of overseas investors for its first three years, but one major shareholder, US media company Discovery, is now understood to be looking to exit.

As a result, the company needs new shareholders willing to suck up the cost of running a loss-making, ad-funded channel with a recession looming. Sources at GB News said both its HR director and commercial director have left in recent weeks.

This has led to speculation that Murdoch could choose to cut his losses, buy GB News, and unite the channel with talkTV. He has form for such ruthlessness. In the early 1990s, soon after it launched, he took his heavily loss-making Sky satellite broadcasting service and merged it with the similarly stricken rival British Satellite Broadcasting to create BSkyB.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... -at-talktv

[Tubby Isaacs]

Murdoch very shrewdly spotted that TV sports rights were undervalued (having already made a losing bet on films). What's the trump card to be this time?

[Spoonman]

Murdoch very shrewdly spotted that TV sports rights were undervalued (having already made a losing bet on films). What's the trump card to be this time?

I dunno, but one thing is for certain - "Old Men Yelling At Clouds" prime time telly can be a profitable enterprise in the USA and sort of break even in Australia (as I understand it) but it simply doesn't work at UK audiences, and the two personalities that to any extent may be recognisable (Morgan & F*rage) either certainly don't (former) or are unlikely to (latter) be bringing in the ad revenue to cover their costs.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've not heard of this bloke until now but then again, he's operating in a crowded field. Glanced at his GB News bio where he says he says he learned his trade under Kelvin McKenzie at the end of the golden age of journalism. In a recent tweet he describes the striking railway workers as 'evil'.

So, to summarise, he's just another jumped up right wing gobshite working for The Man.

Maybe somebody could ask this "populist" about hacking dead girl's phones.

[Youngian]

GBNews steps in after lefties and Fenians at the BBC cancelled 12 July coverage in NI. Arlene and Corrie’s Jim McDonald will be doing the Andi Peters vox pops on the ground.

[MisterMuncher]

Lawson told big stories* of offering mouthy Fenians a square go outside the Crown Bar. Obviously a sensible, unbiased voice.


(*Other patrons maintain he was fighting little only the voices in his head)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Tonty Blair.

[Boiler]

I can't imagine a more vile couple than McVey and Davies.

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's analysis like this that makes people turn over to GB News, and then turn back to Channel 5.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More on that score. Who's ever heard of an uncoordinated coup?!!

[Tubby Isaacs]

It was over, wasn't it?

[Bones McCoy]

It was over, wasn't it?

He's Desperate, Dan.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's Desperate, Dan.

Populist.

[Watchman]

No, just a cunt

[Bones McCoy]

No, just a cunt

I think Sgt Major Williams would sum him up quite factually.

[Rosvanian]

It's such a crowded field but I think Dan Wootton might just about be the biggest cunt of them all.