Will you be watching GB News?

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Will you be watching GB News?

Post by Potter's Lake » Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:59 am

https://pressgazette.co.uk/what-is-gb-n ... d-to-know/
GB News, the biggest news TV channel to launch in the UK since Sky News 30 years ago, has been defended amid a campaign to get advertisers to boycott the channel by its chairman Andrew Neil.

Neil, who will present a nightly news programme on the channel, said it “will not be shouty, angry television” and insisted it will conform to Ofcom rules on impartiality.

The channel plans to air 6,500 hours a year of “original news, opinion and debate”, eschewing rolling news for appointment-to-view programming.

The channel’s launch date has not yet been confirmed but Neil said last year was aiming for a March 2021 launch.
CEO Frangopoulos has said GB News is “committed to impartial journalism” and looking for a “range of voices and perspectives”.

In a letter complaining about a Guardian column Frangopoulos said: “GB News will be staunchly independent. That is our point. Our investors know this, our journalists will know it and so will our viewers. We aim to serve British communities who feel poorly represented by mainstream television media, especially outside London.

“We are proud to be adding plurality to UK media by investing in journalism that will be as diverse and broad-minded as the British people themselves.

“We are absolutely committed to our mission to report news in the most accurate and balanced way we can.”

Nevertheless it has frequently been tipped as the UK’s answer to US right-wing channel Fox News, with journalists approached to get involved telling the Telegraph it was pitched to them as a right-wing alternative to the BBC.

Broadcast TV channels in the UK face stricter regulation than the US, with Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code stating they must adhere to “due impartiality” across their programming.

But due impartiality is less restrictive than viewers may think, meaning GB News is likely to be able to have a right-leaning stance balanced out by guests, for example, sharing the other side of the argument.

Ofcom’s rules state it “does not mean an equal division of time has to be given to every view, or that every argument and every facet of every argument has to be represented.

“The approach to due impartiality may vary according to the nature of the subject, the type of programme and channel, the likely expectation of the audience as to content, and the extent to which the content and approach is signalled to the audience.”

Neil has described his expectation that GB News anchors will have a “bit of edge, a bit of attitude, personality”.
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Re: Will you be watching GB News?

Post by Randall » Tue Feb 09, 2021 12:02 pm

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Re: Will you be watching GB News?

Post by Mabbsy » Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:13 pm

News channels are toxic, it's a no from me

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Post by tungsten tossers » Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:17 pm

Mabbsy wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:13 pm News channels are toxic, it's a no from me
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Re: Will you be watching GB News?

Post by Potter's Lake » Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:31 am

They've really swayed the target audience, then.
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Re: Will you be watching GB News?

Post by Potter's Lake » Sun May 16, 2021 3:07 pm



End of the month. It's certain to go well, as the people they're trying to convince to watch it are the same people who have cancelled their TV licence.
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