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Originally Posted by Damien
Sounds like they might do the reboot The Guardian was suggesting. Apparently there was a conflict between people who wanted to do more regional reporting and those who wanted more the culture war stuff. The regional reporting people are out.
It's going be hard to recover from where they are though as they won't have the 'new' factor they had in the first week.
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The regional stuff was always good fun due to the technical issues. Even last week there were amusing gremlins cropping up with regularity.
Love him or loathe him, but Rupert Murdoch knows a thing or two about TV and news. It's telling that he's chosen not to go for a 24/7 linear channel but to have a website with some content being live streamed.
It's a bit hard for GB News to in effect trade down to this type of offering but I think it makes more sense - you have to spend some serious money to provide a decent 24-hour news channel like Sky News which GB News doesn't have.
Endulging one side of the culture wars might retain viewers but would the channel end up in conflict with Ofcom?