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fourstardan

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6,182 posts

167 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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Is this a Russian news channel?

If yes why haven't they pulled it off yet?


Honk

2,005 posts

226 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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No need. The presenters are all wkers. smile

vikingaero

12,240 posts

192 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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The Murdoch oligarchy are recognising the fact that they need to support other oligarchs in time of need. biggrin

CraigyMc

18,110 posts

259 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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fourstardan said:
Is this a Russian news channel?

If yes why haven't they pulled it off yet?
RT is/was "Russia Today". Calling it "news" is stretching the term quite far.
It's a wholly owned outlet of the Russian state. The output is what the Kremlin wants you to see.

Quhet

2,777 posts

169 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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Why is this on GG? Why have the mods not pulled it off yet?

AJB88

15,051 posts

194 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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CraigyMc said:
It's a wholly owned outlet of the Russian state. The output is what the Kremlin wants you to see.
No different to the BBC then really.

CraigyMc

18,110 posts

259 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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Quhet said:
Why is this on GG? Why have the mods not pulled it off yet?
Should be moved to NP&E I recon.

CraigyMc

18,110 posts

259 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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AJB88 said:
CraigyMc said:
It's a wholly owned outlet of the Russian state. The output is what the Kremlin wants you to see.
No different to the BBC then really.
Quite different, but only to people who aren't wibble merchants.

IAmTheWalrus

1,054 posts

67 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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AJB88 said:
CraigyMc said:
It's a wholly owned outlet of the Russian state. The output is what the Kremlin wants you to see.
No different to the BBC then really.
Indeed, look at what happened to the BBC after the dodgy dossier exposure.

Anyhow, on the broader point, the internet itself only lets you see what the owners of the access point want you to see, Google is quite famous for this. They carefully select what comes up in search results.

4 minute clip, worth a watch..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHc2mryQoC4

StevieBee

14,787 posts

278 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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fourstardan said:
Is this a Russian news channel?

If yes why haven't they pulled it off yet?
Because all BBC content would then be pulled from Russian channels and it's better to suffer RT here (which everyone knows should be listed in the fictional entertainment section of broadcast platforms) and have the BBC doing it's stuff in Russia than not.

Panamax

8,083 posts

57 months

Tuesday 1st March 2022
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I agree, there would be reciprocal bans.

But it is curious that Sky stopped carrying FOX not very long ago!

slk 32

1,526 posts

216 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Panamax said:
I agree, there would be reciprocal bans.

But it is curious that Sky stopped carrying FOX not very long ago!
Maybe because Sky is owned by Comcast now

colin79666

2,136 posts

136 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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It will be removed very soon. Handily enough for Sky they didn’t have to make the call on it, their supplier from within the EU is removing it following the EUs decision.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/01/russ...

Unclear if it will go from Freesat and Freeview at the same time.

Ofcom have been pretty useless over RT for a number of years.

fourstardan

Original Poster:

6,182 posts

167 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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colin79666 said:
It will be removed very soon. Handily enough for Sky they didn’t have to make the call on it, their supplier from within the EU is removing it following the EUs decision.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/01/russ...

Unclear if it will go from Freesat and Freeview at the same time.

Ofcom have been pretty useless over RT for a number of years.
I've flicked it on a few times but never seems to have any news on Russia lol

Big Nanas

3,530 posts

107 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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vikingaero said:
The Murdoch oligarchy are recognising the fact that they need to support other oligarchs in time of need. biggrin
Murdoch sold his interest in Sky years ago.

AlexS

1,579 posts

255 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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slk 32 said:
Panamax said:
I agree, there would be reciprocal bans.

But it is curious that Sky stopped carrying FOX not very long ago!
Maybe because Sky is owned by Comcast now
Disney own Fox and so all the Fox stuff is now on Disney+.

Evercross

6,883 posts

87 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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It isn't 'on Sky'. It is FTA on Astra 2 (28.2 degrees east) as well as about a dozen other satellites that can be picked up in the UK. It just so happens that Sky put it on their EPG.

It is also 'on Freeview'.

I have been watching it the last couple of days just to see the Russian perspective on war (sorry, special military operations) propaganda. It was funny listening to their newscaster announcing last night that they had been banned from transmitting in Europe. Of course a blatant lie, no doubt being peddled in preparation of them using it as a pretext to take out Ukrainian national TV with an airstrike on the main transmitter.

"Banned" yet I was watching it in the UK, and the French, English and Spanish language versions were also all still transmitting on Astra 1 (which reaches pretty much the whole pf the EU landmass).

geeks

11,056 posts

162 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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slk 32 said:
Panamax said:
I agree, there would be reciprocal bans.

But it is curious that Sky stopped carrying FOX not very long ago!
Maybe because Sky is owned by Comcast now
Nothing to do with that, it was removed 5 years ago as it had viewership in the low thousands.

EK9_CTR

691 posts

157 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Noticed that RT is now unavailable via YouTube, within the UK anyway.

On a side note, one of their presenters is a solid 9/10. Lass by the name of Trinity.

IAmTheWalrus

1,054 posts

67 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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EK9_CTR said:
Noticed that RT is now unavailable via YouTube, within the UK anyway.

On a side note, one of their presenters is a solid 9/10. Lass by the name of Trinity.
Nice

https://www.instagram.com/trinitychavezofficial/?h...

There's a channel called Naked News in which the presenters start taking their cloths off as they read it out. Surprised anyone can pay attention to whats being said..