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#286084 4-Jun-2021 12:50
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Anyone know how you could stream or get playback from this GB News, when it is launched later this month.

 

Seems they are going to broadcast in the UK-only for the time being


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  #2718484 5-Jun-2021 04:03
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Have to wait for the launch and see if the streams are geoblocked

 

I'm keeping an eye out for it.

 

 




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  #2720364 7-Jun-2021 20:54
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I'm not sure the world needs another Fox news, but to each their own.


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  #2720436 7-Jun-2021 23:14
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Thanks to GB News I hear the cherry harvest in Gilgit-Baluchistan is very good this year:




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  #2720519 8-Jun-2021 08:45
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  #2729139 15-Jun-2021 15:09
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GBNews is backed by an NZ based investor apparently:

 

Stuff: Britain’s Standard newspaper reported that the launch of the channel was beset by technical difficulties

 

In the meantime I've discovered the joys of GBNews Gilgit Baltistan.


 
 
 

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  #2733100 23-Jun-2021 13:09
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OMG. I see what GB news is pitching themselves as and after their first week on air, I've read a hilarious review of their output.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/gb-news-review-andrew-neil-b1869871.html

 

They claim they'll listen to the man in the street and not the elites but their first week is all named guests. The man in the street is fighting back in the most British way possible, humour.

 

"All week, presenters read out prank messages from names like Mike Hunt, Mike Oxlong or Cleo Torez. A man discreetly got his bum out during a video question for Laurence Fox, which at least gave viewers two arses for the price of one. "

 

"Some moments were just plain surreal, like Dewberry hosting a segment called “Do kids need toys?” or Rod Liddle smoking a fag on air like a bad boy. But others were pure Acorn Antiques, like the constant misspelling of place names of Great Britain. Don’t the people writing the on-screen graphics know it’s Stirling not Sterling, Stansted not Standsted and Newcastle not bloody Newscastle. Or is there a secret team of Britain-hating anarchist lefties trying to sabotage the whole operation?"

 

 

 

In all, doesn't sound like the kind of news channel I want to listen to.

 

 





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