GB news .

[4LEX]

No interest in GB News and didn't even knew it had launched this week so won't comment on the content.

However it's worth noting the reason it was founded is down to the failure and agenda driven narrative of the mainstream news outlets. It will thrive as theres a gap in the market for news that isn't riddled with political correctness. The recent election results show the silent majority are sick of all the virtue signaling. That has increased tenfold in the last year alone so anyone to the left better get their tissues ready for the next decade

 

[4LEX]

Oh, the irony. Neil bemoaning the use of financial might to exert influence.

GB News is funded to the tune of £60 million by a big American TV network, a Dubai based prove investment fund and a hedge fund guy. Not exactly a grassroots organisation led by the common man.

As opposed to BBC News which mugs money off OAP's and threatens them with jail

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

As opposed to BBC News which mugs money off OAP's and threatens them with jail

Remind me who decided to cut the BBCs funding previously provided for free licences for the over-75s.

 

[The Dog.]

Remind me who decided to cut the BBCs funding previously provided for free licences for the over-75s.

No idea. But Ben Hogan’s swing was bang average.

 

[Hobbit]

Remind me who decided to cut the BBCs funding previously provided for free licences for the over-75s.

Yet the Beeb’s income continues to rise. There’s a really good piece put together by the Beeb showing their top 10 donors. For example, The Gates Foundation contributed £1.5bn. And then there’s strange ones like £880m from the Norwegian Foreign Office.

There’s also a good piece on ”the relevance of the BBC.” Households, on average, watch the Beeb for less than 3 hours a week, expected to drop to 2 hours a week over the next 10 years.

All in all, when you look at the overall income, and then the spending, defending the cut of the free licence fee for the over 75’s is pretty difficult.

 

[RichA]

It will thrive as theres a gap in the market for news that isn't riddled with political correctness. The recent election results show the silent majority are sick of all the virtue signaling. That has increased tenfold in the last year alone so anyone to the left better get their tissues ready for the next decade

Did you just sleep through the Chesham & Amersham by-election result?
I have no interest in a political discussion on here or in normal life, but your post doesn't seem to reflect reality.

 

[Mudball]

Yet the Beeb’s income continues to rise. There’s a really good piece put together by the Beeb showing their top 10 donors. For example, The Gates Foundation contributed £1.5bn. And then there’s strange ones like £880m from the Norwegian Foreign Office.

There’s also a good piece on ”the relevance of the BBC.” Households, on average, watch the Beeb for less than 3 hours a week, expected to drop to 2 hours a week over the next 10 years.

All in all, when you look at the overall income, and then the spending, defending the cut of the free licence fee for the over 75’s is pretty difficult.

Like the NHS, the BBC is more undervalued in this country than it is abroad. If I am on the road, my hotel news comes from BBC (and some CNN). The bbc worldwide is a brilliant service that is used worldwide and is perhaps the best ‘weapon’ in our new found desire to ‘project power of a new Britain’. It is also a commercial success with it feeding some excellent box sets to other streaming platform. As part of homeschooling her kids, a friend in Texas has taught her boys to cross check all research with ‘check what the Brits are saying esp the BBC’ rather than just pick from Wikipedia. How many here can live without Eastenders, Bake offs, Attenboroughs or advertisement free telly.

like the NHS it has its own challenges. People seem to equate the BBC only to what they like or don’t like on the 10 O’clock news. In reality ‘ the bbc’ is much more than that.

Is the funding influencing editorial content?

 

[PNWokingham]

Like the NHS, the BBC is more undervalued in this country than it is abroad. If I am on the road, my hotel news comes from BBC (and some CNN). The bbc worldwide is a brilliant service that is used worldwide and is perhaps the best ‘weapon’ in our new found desire to ‘project power of a new Britain’. It is also a commercial success with it feeding some excellent box sets to other streaming platform. As part of homeschooling her kids, a friend in Texas has taught her boys to cross check all research with ‘check what the Brits are saying esp the BBC’ rather than just pick from Wikipedia. How many here can live without Eastenders, Bake offs, Attenboroughs or advertisement free telly.

like the NHS it has its own challenges. People seem to equate the BBC only to what they like or don’t like on the 10 O’clock news. In reality ‘ the bbc’ is much more than that.

Is the funding influencing editorial content?

i would rather adverts and drop the licence fee

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Yet the Beeb’s income continues to rise. There’s a really good piece put together by the Beeb showing their top 10 donors. For example, The Gates Foundation contributed £1.5bn. And then there’s strange ones like £880m from the Norwegian Foreign Office.

There’s also a good piece on ”the relevance of the BBC.” Households, on average, watch the Beeb for less than 3 hours a week, expected to drop to 2 hours a week over the next 10 years.

All in all, when you look at the overall income, and then the spending, defending the cut of the free licence fee for the over 75’s is pretty difficult.

What about BBC radio and world service?

I'm no fan of BBC news, but there is more to it that just TV.

 

[The Dog.]

I agree the BBC and NHS are very similar. Both of them have never been replicated around the world for obvious reasons. Both are well past their sell-by date, both need radical, transformational change and both seem to be sacred cows, untouchable by government.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Advertisers pulling the plug on GB [Fox] News.

Oh dear....how sad....never mind.

 

[Dando]

Advertisers pulling the plug on GB [Fox] News.

Oh dear....how sad....never mind.

Is that due to bed wetters saying they’ll boycott those firms if they carry on advertising on gb news and the idiots at those firms who bow down to them

 

[Swinglowandslow]

What about BBC radio and world service?

I'm no fan of BBC news, but there is more to it that just TV.

We can argue till the cows come home about whether the BBC is excellent value, or otherwise, or whether they are biased or otherwise, but what is important is the fact that it is morally wrong to make people pay, under threat of criminal prosecution and possibly jail, for a service they don't wish to use. OR which they don't use.
The BBC should go into the market place as the other services do. Adverts or subscription.
How good it is or how bad it is are irrelevant to that principle.

 

[Kellfire]

As opposed to BBC News which mugs money off OAP's and threatens them with jail

The BBC are legally obliged to collect the licence fee by British law.

 

[bobmac]

A couple go to check out of a hotel after an overnight stop when they notice on the bill a £5 charge for the mini bar.
Why should we pay for something we didn't use the guy asks.
Receptionist...... It was there if you wanted it.
The guy deducts £50 from the bill and says ''thats for having sex with my wife''
Rec.....I didn't have sex with your wife
Guy....She was there if you wanted it.
Moral
It's wrong to have to pay for something you don't use

 

[Kellfire]

A couple go to check out of a hotel after an overnight stop when they notice on the bill a £5 charge for the mini bar.
Why should we pay for something we didn't use the guy asks.
Receptionist...... It was there if you wanted it.
The guy deducts £50 from the bill and says ''thats for having sex with my wife''
Rec.....I didn't have sex with your wife
Guy....She was there if you wanted it.
Moral
It's wrong to have to pay for something you don't use

Wait until you find out about taxes. You’re going to be very upset.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Is that due to bed wetters saying they’ll boycott those firms if they carry on advertising on gb news and the idiots at those firms who bow down to them

No ......more like the reason Irn Bru will never advertise on a Rangers or Celtic shirt.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Advertisers pulling the plug on GB [Fox] News.

Oh dear....how sad....never mind.

It’s hilarious watching the “Little Englanders” go into meltdown over it. ??

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Wait until you find out about taxes. You’re going to be very upset.

Why should I be taxed for having a TV? Do you think that you should be taxed for having a computer? Would it be right for BT to be paid for being willing and able to provide broadband, if you were using , say, VM cable.
Everyone understands taxes for infrastructure essentials, but TV channels?

 

[Kellfire]

Why should I be taxed for having a TV? Do you think that you should be taxed for having a computer? Would it be right for BT to be paid for being willing and able to provide broadband, if you were using , say, VM cable.
Everyone understands taxes for infrastructure essentials, but TV channels?

The TV licence isn’t a tax. You can choose not to meet the requirements to have to pay.