And they've just introduced another guest wrongly who was quite put out by it (complete with distorted sound too).
How much longer can this continue.
Worzel post_id=21277 time= user_id=1259 Wrote:They actually introduced the wrong guest, or at least the guest said she was from a different organisation to the one stated and the guest corrected the presenter.
It's just happened again with the latest guest regarding compulsory vaccinations for care home staff being introduced as from the wrong organisation.
You have to wonder had News UK TV had launched, how it would have compared to GB News.
Worzel post_id=21277 time= user_id=1259 Wrote:swaggyboi128 post_id=21275 time= user_id=1485 Wrote:There is only one word that can describe the current interview, and that is dog. And slight sound issues.
They actually introduced the wrong guest, or at least the guest said she was from a different organisation to the one stated and the guest corrected the presenter.
And it just happened again with the next guest. It also seemed liked there was supposed to be a guest at the TOTH but that did not materialise so the two presenters rambled on.
There's a tik tok channel devoted to the blunders and needless to say it has lots of content already.
It's as if people who know nothing of running any sort of TV station have spent lots of money but still don't know how to run a TV channel.
BBC News 24 certainly had a lot of technical issues when it launched in 1997. Unsurprisingly for the BBC much of the hostility was internal and some BBC News personalities wouldn't appear on the channel.
Former FT Editor Richard Lambert produced a report on the channel for DCMS in 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/200303302312...Review.pdf
Quote:4.3 News 24 was launched in November 1997, and could hardly have got off to a worse start.
It immediately ran into serious problems with technology, with its style and presentation, its news concept, and with its organisation. Although these have now been corrected, the channel has had to fight hard to win hearts and minds within the BBC and to build its reputation with the viewing public.
4.4 The production process was built from the start on digital systems – which enabled the channel to keep staff numbers down and create a structure that would last into the future. But the attempt to introduce three different computer systems along with new working practices inevitably led to serious technical problems.
4.5 For the first few months, the main concern seems to have been not so much about the quality of programming, but more about simply staying on air.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressre...onse.shtml
Though as it was on cable initially and only simulcast on BBC1 overnight, relatively few saw them and they certainly couldn't be captured and shared on social media at the time. BBC Radio News also had huge technical issues when (I think) it moved to White City at around 1998.
If GB News was to start at 4 or 7pm it would at least allow for studio rehearsals in the day and for some interviews to be prerecorded.
Worzel post_id=21269 time= user_id=1259 Wrote:How did the ITN News channel fare when it launched? That's probably the most recent example of a UK based news channel launching (AJE aside).
AJE is actually an interesting case study when it comes to technical issues. They were technically flawless when they launched, for the most part. But that came after the channel's launch was delayed several times - up to nearly a whole year. Granted, they were trying on a four-way shared broadcasting situation, but this was also 2005.
Great diary-style piece from The Independent at the time linked below.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media...24587.html
Quote:21 March: Our relationship with our technical consultants is becoming very strained. It is clear that they are not going to meet the initial deadline for hand-over of the studios on 8 April. At present they are suggesting a month's delay. That would leave us with a tight schedule of rehearsals and pilots before going live at the end of May, but we could do it. I swallow my scepticism about the consultants' promises and agree.
9 May: Yesterday, it is now clear, was a false dawn. We are going to have to abandon the trials to allow the technical consultants yet more time to finish their work. Morale takes a dive and is not helped by Doha being engulfed in a windstorm with hot, 100mph winds sucking any oxygen out of the place. Decide to put back launch until after the summer. Negative stories are already appearing in the media, but it is much better to wait and get it right, than rush it now.
3 August: Every part of the technical system crashes. We still have mountains to climb. What the technicians call "high-resolution ghost orphan items" are filling up our server space.
18 August: Return from recharging my batteries with my family in the Seychelles to find the studio far from ready - no carpets in some places, wires everywhere, desk monitors missing and low staff morale.
10 September: Some days everything works. Some days nothing does.
2 October: Things are looking up. At 8am we start running our 24-hour schedule and keep our fingers crossed. The system is working. No one can quite believe it.
4 October: 50 hours in and were still on air! There have been a few glitches, but we've kept going, and every day we look better. We have moments when we feel we outshine our competitors. My confidence is growing. If we remain stable on air for 10 days, at last we will feel we have a system we can finally go to air with.
There are no flood warnings in Bedfordshire Liam! How could you get that so drastically wrong.
XIII post_id=21287 time= user_id=894 Wrote:You have to wonder had News UK TV had launched, how it would have compared to GB News.
You'd like to think it would be a much more polished product. You couldn't really imagine a company of that reputation & resource putting something on air that wasn't.
Indeed, as has been noted here, the studios of TalkRadio (and even TalkSport & Virgin) are of a better quality. GB News would've been better having 2 studios like that with huge screens, brightly coloured & able to rotate between for different shows.
Eek. The judders of the Birmingham reporter during the 'Nationwide' segment is really obvious because she is stood on the side of a fairly busy road. So you can see people and cars just jumping behind her.
Is there really a need to do this segment every hour, with the same reporters in the same places with the same stories? We'll see them all again with Simon & Alex later too...
Ash101 post_id=21295 time= user_id=936 Wrote:You'd like to think it would be a much more polished product. You couldn't really imagine a company of that reputation & resource putting something on air that wasn't.
But on the other hand, Discovery are a major shareholder in GB news, and it's hard to imagine them putting out something of such poor quality.
James2001 post_id=21297 time= user_id=956 Wrote:Ash101 post_id=21295 time= user_id=936 Wrote:You'd like to think it would be a much more polished product. You couldn't really imagine a company of that reputation & resource putting something on air that wasn't.
But on the other hand, Discovery are a major shareholder in GB news, and it's hard to imagine them putting out something of such poor quality.
True. But there seems to be zero evidence that they've provided any technical knowhow at all? Looks like they've just thrown some money at the situation. I'm not quite up on Discovery's investments in other countries, do they run any similar channels elsewhere?
Thanks to Pdwill1976 on the DS ratings thread
Tuesday
6am – 9am
GBN = Great British Breakfast 0.046M (1.5%)
* Yesterday 0.079 (2.5%)
GBN = Andrew Neil 0.072M (0.4%)
* Yesterday 0.153M (0.9%)
Figures from broadcast.
TIGHazard post_id=21299 time= user_id=904 Wrote:Thanks to Pdwill1976 on the DS ratings thread
Tuesday
6am – 9am
GBN = Great British Breakfast 0.046M (1.5%)
* Yesterday 0.079 (2.5%)
GBN = Andrew Neil 0.072M (0.4%)
* Yesterday 0.153M (0.9%)
Figures from broadcast.
Quite clear that figures are going to plummet once the initial curiosity's gone. Andrew Neil's more than halved in a day! How many of those 72,000 were only watching for the car crash and will vanish if it becomes technically competent?
Gloria De Piero just cut off an in studio guest telling him that his microphone wasn't working, when it was.