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GB News

January 01, 1970

GB News is a British free-to-air, opinion-orientated[a] news television and radio channel. The channel is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus and YouTube. An audio simulcast of the station is also available on DAB+ radio.

GB News
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast area
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
  • Europe
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerAll Perspectives Ltd.
Key people
  • Alan McCormick (Chairman)[1]
  • Angelos Frangopoulos (CEO)
History
Launched13 June 2021; 2 years ago (2021-06-13)
Founder
  • Andrew Cole
  • Mark Schneider
Links
Websitewww.gbnews.com
Availability
Terrestrial
FreeviewChannel 236 (SD)
Streaming media
gbnews.comLive stream
YouTubeLive stream

Announced in September 2020 and launched in June 2021 from studios at Paddington Basin, London, GB News became Britain's first television news start-up since the launch of Sky News in 1989.[2] It was set up with the aim of broadcasting "original news, opinion and debate", with a mix of news coverage and opinion-based content. The channel is described as right-leaning on political issues.[3][4][5] The channel has faced criticism several times for providing a platform to far-right figures without adequately challenging their rhetoric.[6][7][8]

It is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum, under the umbrella of a holding company, All Perspectives Ltd, which is headquartered in London. As of August 2022, All Perspectives Ltd was controlled by three significant shareholders, all of whom work for Christopher Chandler's Dubai-based investment firm Legatum.[9][10] The CEO of GB News is Angelos Frangopoulos,[11][12] who formerly ran Sky News Australia.

The first chairman of GB News was Andrew Neil, who left the BBC in 2020 to set up the channel and present a prime-time evening programme. He presented only nine shows and resigned from his roles at the channel on 13 September 2021,[13] three months after its official launch. The channel has been found to have breached Ofcom's standards on several occasions and as of 12 November 2023 was the subject of fourteen investigations[14] into its compliance with Ofcom's due impartiality rules, including cases of potential breaches of the rule that apart from exceptional circumstances, politicians should not act as newsreaders, reporters or interviewers.[15] Hosts of shows on the channel include Nigel Farage, Eamonn Holmes, Michael Portillo, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Mark Dolan and Camilla Tominey.

History edit

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of GB News.

Foundation edit

All Perspectives Ltd was founded as the holding company of GB News in September 2019, and was granted a licence to broadcast by Ofcom in January 2020.[16][17] GB News was founded by Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider, two executives associated with the chairman of Liberty Global, John C. Malone.[17] By August 2022, Cole and Schneider had resigned as directors after their holdings in the company were purchased by backers Sir Paul Marshall and Legatum.[10]

 
Andrew Neil, former GB News chairman and presenter, was the face of the channel in the run-up to its launch

On 25 September 2020, it was announced that Andrew Neil, who had presented live political programmes on the BBC for 25 years,[18] would leave the corporation after leading its coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election. He said that he had been in discussions to continue working on the BBC in a new format after the cancellation of his programme The Andrew Neil Show, but that these talks had "not come to fruition" and he had accepted the post of chairman of a new television news channel.[19] On the same day, he was announced as the presenter of a prime-time evening programme on the channel, due to launch early the next year. In a statement, Neil said that the channel would "champion robust, balanced debate and a range of perspectives on the issues that affect everyone in the UK, not just those living in the London area", and GB News was addressing a perceived gap in the market for "the vast number of British people who feel underserved and unheard by their media".[20]

In December 2020, Paul Marshall, a hedge-fund manager, was in talks to invest £10 million into GB News.[21] On 6 January 2021, GB News reached its £60 million fundraising aim, which it said was oversubscribed. The majority of the £60 million came from the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum, Marshall, who said he was investing in a personal capacity, and American multinational Discovery, Inc.; after the merger of Discovery with WarnerMedia (owners of CNN) to form Warner Bros. Discovery, the company's stake in All Perspectives was bought out by the other backers in August 2022 as part of an additional capital injection of £60 million.[22][10]

Prior to its launch, GB News said it would recruit 140 staff, including 120 journalists, and would also launch "streaming, video-on-demand and audio services".[22] Since then, CEO Angelos Frangopoulos reported that the channel had employed over 200 journalists.[23]

The recruitment drive began on 25 January 2021.[24] The first presenters and journalists announced in the recruitment drive were Dan Wootton,[25] Colin Brazier,[26] Darren McCaffrey, Tom Harwood,[26] Michelle Dewberry,[27] Inaya Folarin Iman,[28] and Alex Phillips.[29] Following Piers Morgan's departure from Good Morning Britain on 9 March,[30] Neil expressed interest in Morgan joining GB News instead.[31] Neil later said that talks were affected by a disagreement: "he's [Morgan] got his own idea of what he is worth and we [GB News] have a slightly different idea of what he's worth".[32] Later staff announced as joining the channel prior to its launch were Liam Halligan,[33] Andrew Doyle,[34] Rosie Wright,[35] Simon McCoy,[36] Kirsty Gallacher,[37] Alastair Stewart,[38] Neil Oliver,[39] Gloria De Piero,[40] Mercy Muroki,[41] and Isabel Webster.[42]

For the period ending 31 May 2021 All Perspectives Ltd made a loss of £2.7 million.[43]

Launch edit

GB News commenced broadcasting at 20:00 BST on 13 June 2021.[44][45] Neil launched the channel by saying "We are proud to be British – the clue is in the name",[46] and after the opening night was said to be "jubilant" that his programme had "out-rated Sky News and BBC News Channel combined".[47]

 
Nigel Farage, former leader of UKIP and the Brexit Party, presents a prime-time show on GB News

On 20 June, Nigel Farage and Dehenna Davison joined GB News as contributors to host the Sunday morning political discussion programme The Political Correction.[48][49][50]

Neil took a break from presenting on the channel on 24 June, less than two weeks after its launch.[51]

It was reported by The Guardian in July that John McAndrew, director of news and programmes, formerly of Sky News and Euronews, had stood down from his role.[52] Senior executive producer Gill Penlington, formerly of CNN, ITV and Sky News, also left the channel in early July.[52] On 17 July it was announced that Nigel Farage, already a contributing presenter, would host Farage, a prime-time evening show, from 19 July.[53][54] Later that month, Mark Dolan joined the channel.[55] The following month, Talkradio's Patrick Christys joined to present To the Point on weekday mornings alongside Mercy Muroki. The programme replaced Brazier & Muroki.[56]

On 10 August, the channel announced four political programmes to launch within weeks; The Briefing: AM with Tom Harwood, The Briefing: Lunchtime with Gloria De Piero, The Briefing: PM with Darren McCaffrey, and The Briefing: PMQs.[57] The following month, political journalist Isabel Oakeshott joined to host a weekly show.[58]

Neil was expected to have rejoined GB News in early September, but multiple news sources reported that his return had been postponed, with some speculating that this postponement might become indefinite.[59] On 13 September he announced he was stepping down as chairman and would no longer be presenting on the channel.[60][61] Later that month, on the BBC's Question Time, he said that he had become a "minority of one" on the channel's board, due to disputes over its approach to journalism.[62] Neil was replaced as a presenter by Colin Brazier in what The Telegraph described as a "fight back by swinging to the right".[63] Neil had been on a contract worth £4 million and included stress among the reasons for departing GB News.[64] In November 2021, Neil called his decision to lead the channel the "single biggest mistake" of his career.[65]

Post Andrew Neil era edit

 
Jacob Rees-Mogg was one of the high-profile presenters joining the channel in 2023

In October, following the launch announcement of rival TalkTV, GB News introduced half-hourly news bulletins and Sunday Express editor Mick Booker joined as editorial director.[66]

In late 2021, it was announced that Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster would present a Monday to Thursday breakfast show, Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel. Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond would present this show Friday to Sunday. In January 2022, the channel announced it would play "God Save the Queen" at the start of live programming every day.[67][68]

Camilla Tominey, Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce were announced as new presenters in August 2022.[10] Also, after the merger of AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc., the shares that Discovery had initially acquired in the channel's early days were put up for sale by new media group Warner Bros. Discovery.[69][70][71][72] Discovery's 25% stake was sold for £8 million, valuing the company at £32 million, almost half of what it was valued at in 2021.[73]

 
Michael Portillo hosts a show on politics, culture and the arts

In early September 2022, in a shakeup of the channel's afternoon programming, it was announced that presenters Colin Brazier and Alex Phillips had left the channel.[74] In the days following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, all regular programming was stopped and no advertisements were shown on the channel, with Alastair Stewart, Dan Wootton, Nigel Farage, Mark Longhurst and Patrick Christys presenting most of the coverage of the death of the Queen and Charles III's accession to the throne.[75]

In September 2022, novelist and former Head of Daytime at ITV and Channel 4 Helen Warner was appointed Head of Television at GB News.[76] Warner left the channel four months later, in January 2023.[77]

In October 2022, it was announced that actor and comedian John Cleese would be presenting his own show on GB News in 2023.[78] In 2022 Conservative member of the House of Lords, Helena Morrissey, Baroness Morrissey, became a director of GB News's parent company, All Perspectives.[79]

Following the cancellation of the weekday show To the Point, in November 2022, Bev Turner began hosting her own GB News show Bev Turner Today. She had already been a stand-in presenter on the channel.[80]

Influx of politician-presenters edit

In January 2023, GB News announced that the Conservative MP for North East Somerset and former Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg would join the channel as a presenter.[81] ACOBA were notified of Rees-Mogg's appointment and made clear that his role with the channel is subject to a number of conditions.[82] A fifth Conservative MP, Lee Anderson, was announced to be joining the channel's hosting lineup in March.[83]

Ofcom have found the channel to have breached its standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation.[84] During GB News' first year on air, their financial year ending May 2022, the company made a loss of £30.7 million.[85] Stewart retired as a regular presenter in 2023.[86]

In July 2023, an investigation was launched by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding Lee Anderson and a promotional video created for his GB News show.[87]

In August 2023, Byline Times revealed that GB News had "settled an employment claim for a five-figure sum in which sexual harassment was alleged against its chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos – and shut down serious racism and bullying allegations raised by two other journalists with further pay-outs and gagging agreements".[88]

In October 2023, it was announced that Conservative politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, would be joining GB News in a presenting role.[89] Fellow upcoming GB News presenter John Cleese commented on Johnson's appointment noting that "I can hardly believe that GB News will give this proven serial liar his own programme".[90] However, Johnson is believed to have cold feet about taking the role.[91]

In November 2023 it was revealed that ownership of shares in the channel had been handed out to a number of people including some of the network's presenters such as Nigel Farage, Arlene Foster, Eamonn Holmes, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Neil Oliver, Camilla Tominey and Dan Wootton.[92] Laurence Fox had also been given shares though these were cancelled upon his leaving.[92] Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer, former treasurer of the Conservative party, increased his stake meanwhile Michael Spencer sold his stake.[92]

In 2023, former Channel 4 journalist Michael Crick – who has regularly featured on Jacob Rees-Mogg's programme on GB News[93] – spoke to Neil Oliver on his show, discussing freedom of speech. During his appearance, he said that Ofcom should regulate the channel for being politically biased, saying: "I've been fighting bias in television for a very long time, and it's one of the reasons I left Channel 4 News cause I thought it was left-wing biased, and I think Ofcom, which is one of the weakest institutions on the planet, should get a grip on you lot. It's absurd that you have Tory MP, after Tory MP, after Tory MP, two leaders of the Brexit Party [as hosts], and hardly any Labour MPs – you are a right-wing channel and the rules in this country are very clear."[94][95] Crick was abruptly removed from the programme and studio following his remarks, as the channel went to an advert break. When the show went back on air, Oliver said that he was "very disappointed about the sequence of events that just unfolded. The last thing I want to see during a conversation between grown-ups about censorship is that conversation being brought abruptly to a close by others. I feel that that conversation should have gone on to its conclusion. That's the situation in which I find myself, I don't stand by censorship."[95] In a later discussion, he characterised the situation as "a discussion about censorship being censored".[95] Crick later described GB News as a "right-wing propaganda channel".[93]

In the financial year to May 2023 the company's losses grew by 38% to £42.4 million, bringing the total deficit to £76m since its launch.[96] In that financial year the company's losses were six times greater than revenue.[96] In April 2024 the company started its first major redundancy exercise with 40 roles to be removed.[97]

Transmission edit

Television edit

 
GB News headquarters, Riverbank House (building pictured on left), is separate from its studios in Paddington

The channel's office headquarters are at Riverbank House in London,[98] and it has studios at The Point building in the Paddington Basin area of the city.[99][100] Later, the channel also began to broadcast from a studio on Albert Embankment with views towards Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. In 2023 GB News confirmed that it was expanding to another location in Westminster.[101] The channel began broadcasting from the new location on 28 August 2023 and later broadcast entire programmes from the new complex, located in the former Sky News Westminster studio at the QE2 Centre.[citation needed]

GB News employs around 120 journalists, comedians and presenters.[102] Several serving Members of Parliament are currently employed as presenters on the channel, including some who recently held positions within the previous Johnson and Truss cabinets.[81] Ofcom's rules state that MPs can be presenters but cannot be utilised as newsreaders.[103]

GB News is transmitted on digital terrestrial television in standard-definition and in high-definition on a satellite. It originally used the Astra 2F satellite[104][105] providing coverage of mostly the British Isles only but switched to Astra 2G in November 2023 making reception in all of Europe possible. The transmissions are available on the Freeview, YouView,[106] Freesat (Channel 216 HD),[107] Sky and Virgin Media platforms.[108] The channel is also available live on the GB News application for mobile devices on iOS and Android.[109] Red Bee Media has provided playout services for GB News since the channel's launch.[110]

In March 2023 GB News changed its top-level domain from .uk to .com with the intention of attracting foreign readers.[111]

In August 2023, GB News had a total identified monthly audience (including sharing and streaming) of 2,786,000, with a nearly 1 minute average daily viewing according to BARB.[112]

In October 2023, GB News was banned from the Welsh Senedd's internal TV system, with a spokesperson for the presiding officer claiming the channel was "deliberately offensive, demeaning to public debate and contrary to our parliament's values".[113]

Radio edit

Following the launch of its television channel, in July 2021, GB News announced its intention to launch a national 24-hour radio station, GB News Radio, on the Digital One digital radio multiplex.[114][115] The radio station is an audio simulcast of the televised channel, rather than a separate production, and started test transmissions in December 2021.[114] Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster were the first to be heard on the simulcast when their television breakfast show started on 4 January 2022.[116][117][118]

RAJAR publishes quarterly statistics on radio audiences; GB News had a weekly audience of 317,000 for a listening share of 0.2% for June 2023.[119]: q. ending Jun23  By the end of the third quarter of 2023 that figure had risen to 398,000.[120] Figures for the final quarter of 2023, published on 1 February 2024, showed an average weekly audience of 430,000.[121]

Programming edit

 
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a high-profile presenter announced for the channel in 2023

Neil stated in January 2021 that the channel would be "a fresh approach to news in Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland".[122][20] The channel plans to air 6,500 hours of "original news, opinion and debate" per year and it has hired 120 journalists.[123][26][20] Neil has said that the channel would not provide rolling news, but would, in similarity with some US networks like MSNBC and Fox News, divide each day into "individual programmes, news-based programmes, built around very strong presenters".[124] He said that it would aim to offer programming that would become "an appointment to view".[125] CEO Angelos Frangopoulos added that it will be a "mix" of news coverage and opinion where it will be taking "a very different view on the regulatory environment" that is controlled by Ofcom.[126] Instead of providing rolling news, the channel would be a mix of news, analysis, opinion and debate.[26]

Five months before the channel launched, BBC News media editor Amol Rajan said GB News would be the first in the United Kingdom to be set up with an explicit political orientation.[127] Other forecasters also said the channel would be right-leaning,[128][129][130][131][132] and it was predicted by the Financial Times,[133] The Guardian and City A.M. that it would be similar to Fox News.[125][17] In The New York Times, Neil was quoted as saying "In terms of formatting and style, I think MSNBC and Fox are the two templates we're following".[134] He also told the Evening Standard that Fox News was "an easy, inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do. In terms of format, we are like Fox, but we won't be like Fox in that they come from a hard right disinformation fake news conspiracy agenda. I have worked too long and hard to build up a journalistic reputation to consider going down that route."[135] While acknowledging the channel to have an explicit right-wing political leaning, BBC media editor Amol Rajan also stated that "the validity of [the Fox News] comparison is limited".[25] GB News has not explicitly indicated a political allegiance, and UK news broadcasters are required by Ofcom to maintain "due impartiality".[136][26]

 
Comic actor John Cleese has his own show on the channel called The Dinosaur Hour

In a March 2021 episode of BBC Radio 4's The Media Show, Neil stated that his nightly news programme would contain segments such as "Wokewatch" and "Mediawatch".[137][138] The channel's breakfast show, The Great British Breakfast, initially had three co-anchors, in a similar style to Fox News' Fox & Friends,[37] but the format changed to two co-anchors from the second week of broadcasting. Free Speech Nation, a current affairs show hosted by Andrew Doyle, airs once a week.[34]

Comparisons in programming, format and political leanings have also been made between GB News and Sky News Australia, itself formerly led by GB News CEO Angelos Frangopoulos.[139][140]

In May 2022, former GB News staff told the New Statesman that at times they were so desperate for guests, they had resorted to "booking their own parents".[141]

GB News has also produced comedy shows such as a weekly topical comedy panel show titled Ministry of Offence,[142][143] and a comedic newspaper review show Headliners.[144]

In July 2023, presenter Dan Wootton used his GB News show to publicly deny any wrongdoing regarding allegations made in the press about his conduct.[145] During a 6-minute monologue Wootton explained that he had made "errors of judgment in the past" but that "criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue".[145]

Zoe Williams, columnist on The Guardian newspaper, has suggested that commercial success is of little relevance to the channel, with backers of the parent company prepared to cover its losses—£42m for the year ending in May 2023—and effectively make large donations to politicians for presenting programs aligned with their views.[146]

Reception edit

The channel launched to a mixed reception.[147][148] Judith Woods, writing for The Telegraph two days after the channel's launch, described it as "unutterably awful; boring, repetitive and cheapskate", rating it one out of five stars. Chris Bennion of The Telegraph rated it four out of five stars, writing, "On launch night, the GB News message came through loud and clear – despite glitches."[147][149] Jemima Kelly wrote for the Financial Times, "GB News is so tedious, so lacking in nuance, so whiny and frankly so low-quality, it is actually making me more sympathetic to the cause of those they deem 'woke'."[150]

In a 2023 poll by YouGov 12% of respondents ranked GB News as a trusted news-brand, compared to the BBC's 44%.[151]

Advertiser response edit

In February 2021, four months before the station began broadcasting, the pressure group Stop Funding Hate called for advertisers to boycott the station, based on what they thought it would represent.[152]

In June 2021, following the station's launch, several brands including Vodafone, IKEA, Kopparbergs Brewery, Grolsch, Nivea, Pinterest, Specsavers and Octopus Energy paused their advertising on the channel, expressing concerns over its content. Some of these advertisements had been placed on the brands' behalf without their knowledge, by Sky Media through their advertising opt-outs during GB News's schedule.[153][154][155] The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, criticised Stop Funding Hate and what he described as "a vocal Twitter minority" for calling for the advertising boycott.[156][157]

In November 2023, in response to an advertiser boycott, GB News introduced an online paywall with three membership tiers. The channel, known for its outspoken approach, chose to seek new revenue streams following substantial financial losses in its first year and ongoing controversies, including breaches of impartiality rules and run-ins with the broadcasting regulator Ofcom.[158]

Ratings, public response and awards edit

336,000 viewers tuned in to see the launch of GB News.[159] The launch soon became the subject of ridicule due to the perceived poor production quality of the channel and frequent technical issues.[160] The channel also became subject to a number of pranks, including prank calls and gag names such as "GBeebies", a pun on the children's channel CBeebies.[161][162][163]

Viewership fell following the launch of the channel.[164][165][166] A month after its launch, its daily viewership of just over 1 million trailed Sky News' 2.5 to 3 million viewers.[167] Audience figures subsequently fell further, and on 14 July, audience figures dropped so low they were reported as zero by the ratings measurement board BARB at least twice on the day, attributed to regular viewers boycotting the station after one of its presenters, Guto Harri, took a knee on-air in solidarity with the England football team.[168] GB News suspended the presenter, describing the event as an "unacceptable breach of our standards";[169][170] Harri later confirmed that he had permanently left the channel.[171] The first episode of Nigel Farage's show on 19 July attracted an average audience of 100,000.[172]

In August 2021, seven weeks after GB News' launch, Ian Burrell wrote in the Evening Standard: "This channel has been both lampooned and ignored, but critics need to get used to something: GB News isn't going away."[173]

The Daily Telegraph reported that, in October 2021, "Nigel Farage remained the station's biggest draw, hauling in between 50,000 and 80,000 viewers while most of the channel's output remains firmly below 30,000."[174] A Daily Telegraph report in December 2021 stated that Farage's nightly programme regularly gets around 150,000 viewers.[175] In February 2022, Press Gazette published an article including statistics on the audience and social following for GB News compared with other channels. The article noted that GB News' four-week audience reach was slightly up in early January to 2.2 million, compared to a low point in November 2021.[176]

In May 2022, figures published by Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR) showed GB News Radio had received an average audience of 239,000 listeners in its first three months of broadcasting.[177] RAJAR figures for the second quarter of 2022 showed the channel's listenership grew by a further 16%, to 277,000 listeners, making it the second-fastest-growing radio channel in the UK (behind the BBC World Service).[178] Subsequently, between July and September 2022, GB News Radio's weekly audience grew by 50%, to 415,000;[119] it was reported to be the only news radio channel to increase its audience during this period.[179][180]

According to an annual poll of 45,000 UK consumers by the market research company Savanta, in 2022 GB News was the nation's third 'most loved' news brand, behind The Guardian and Metro.[181] In the May 2023 survey, it was ranked as the UK's most-loved news brand, ahead of The Guardian and The Sun.[182][183] Savanta explained that the channel's high ranking was a result of its "Marmite" appeal, whereby its dedicated viewers are obsessively positive about the channel. Savanta explained that GB News "taps into a certain demographic's belief that mainstream media cannot be trusted".[184]

In December 2022, Press Gazette reported that GB News had beaten Sky News in primetime ratings over a 30-day period, with 57,107 viewers to Sky's 52,230. The channel remained behind Sky News for all-day viewership, but recorded a 48% increase in primetime viewers relative to the same period in 2021. The article also quoted a Christmas memo sent to staff by Frangopoulos, who said that 'In just 18 months you have worked as a team to end Sky News' undisputed 33-year reign as the most-watched commercial news channel in the United Kingdom'. Frangopoulos added that BARB figures showed the channel's fastest growing areas were in Red Wall regions across the north-east (+17% in Q4 so far), the north-west (+14%), and Yorkshire (+12%)'.[185]

In June 2023 at the TRIC Awards, GB News' Breakfast show won the Multichannel News Programme award and Nigel Farage won the News Presenter award.[186] Farage was booed by some members of the audience during his acceptance speech.[187][188] The event was sponsored by GB News along with businesses and several other media organisations.[189]

Criticisms edit

The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism have criticised broadcasts on GB News for what they feel to be promoting "conspiratorial antisemitism or other misinformation", particularly making note of some of Neil Oliver's broadcasts.[190] GB News have been accused of "demonising" transgender people by figures such as broadcaster India Willoughby.[191]

PinkNews and The Argus reported that social media users criticised an "alternative" BBC Match of the Day programme, aired on the channel on 11 March 2023, as being homophobic because it mocked Brighton and its LGBTQ+ community.[192][193] Alan Tyers of The Telegraph described the programme as an "orgy of inanity".[194] Ofcom received 222 complaints about the segment,[195][196] but decided not to investigate the incident.[197]

When reporting the October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict a number of pro-Hamas messages were read out on air by Nana Akua.[198] GB News apologised for the broadcast and confirmed that counter terrorism police were reviewing the footage.[198]

Ofcom investigations edit

 
Two of Mark Steyn's features on the channel breached standards regarding misinformation about COVID-19

Within the channel's first year Ofcom were prompted to launch five separate investigations into its broadcasts.[199] As of May 2023 more than 4,500 complaints about GB News programmes had been lodged with Ofcom since its launch.[200]

Ofcom received 373 complaints relating to a monologue made on the opening night's edition of Tonight Live with Dan Wootton in which Wootton argued against the government's extension of the COVID-19-related lockdowns in the UK.[201] Ofcom decided not to pursue any of the complaints, a spokesperson saying, "Our rules allow for rigorous debate around the response to coronavirus ... consistent with the right to free expression".[202]

Furthermore, Ofcom have publicly commented on and clarified rules on politicians presenting programmes following the influx of politicians to both TalkTV and GB News.[103]

As of October 2023 Ofcom have found GB News to have breached their licence on six separate occasions, five of those being considered as "significant", although the regulator did not impose any sanctions such as fines or a request for an on-air clarification.[200] 14 additional investigations are still pending.[14]

In November 2023, Ofcom chairman Michael Grade told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the regulator did not "want to be in the business of telling broadcasters, licensees, who they can employ, who they can't employ".[14]

Breaches of code edit

On 7 November 2022, Ofcom announced its first finding against GB News, concluding that the channel breached its radio licence in an episode of To The Point on 2 March 2022. Covering the Erdington by-election, GB News displayed a graphic listing all candidates as required by Rules 6.8 to 6.12 of the Code. However, the presenters did not finish reading aloud the whole list, instead advising listeners on its radio simulcast that it was available on social media. All the candidates' names were therefore not read out in full for the channel's audio simulcast as required by rule 6.10. Ofcom issued no sanction against the channel.[203]

On 6 March 2023 Ofcom announced that it had found the Mark Steyn programme, aired on 21 April 2022, in breach of broadcasting rules for a materially misleading interpretation of official data about COVID-19.[84] In February 2023, Steyn revealed on his website that his GB News programme had been cancelled and that the channel had made an offer which he 'had to refuse' because it would have ended his 'right to free speech on air'.[204][205]

On 9 May 2023, Ofcom found that Mark Steyn breached standards on 4 October 2022.[206] The investigation into Steyn's programme on 4 October 2022 related to comments by Naomi Wolf, a figure who has previously been banned from Twitter for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.[199] No sanctions were imposed, but following their investigation Ofcom arranged a meeting with GB News "to discuss its approach to compliance".[200]

In April 2023 Ofcom launched an investigation regarding a potential breach of impartiality rules during a programme broadcast on 11 March that was hosted by two Conservative MPs, Esther McVey and Philip Davies, where they interviewed a fellow Conservative MP, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, about his then imminent Spring Budget.[207] The programme was confirmed by Ofcom to be in breach of their regulations five months later.[208]

Ofcom decided that the 16 June broadcast featuring Martin Daubney breached due impartiality rules when interviewing Richard Tice about immigration, but Ofcom did not impose any further sanctions.[209] In response, GB News acknowledged that the content was non-compliant and stated that "[our staff] will receive further training focused on the issues raised by this broadcast".[210]

In December 2023 Ofcom ruled that the channel had breached impartiality rules with an episode of The Live Desk broadcast on 7 July 2023, which promoted its branded campaign "Don't Kill Cash".[211]

On 18 March 2024 Ofcom ruled that two episodes of Jacob Rees-Mogg's State Of The Nation, two episodes of Friday Morning With Esther And Phil, and one episode of Saturday Morning With Esther And Phil, broadcast during May and June 2023, failed to comply with Rules 5.1 and 5.3 of the Broadcasting Code which state a politician cannot be a newsreader, news interviewer or news reporter unless, exceptionally, there is editorial justification.[212]

Other investigations edit

 
Misogynistic comments broadcast on the channel led to the suspension and exit of Dan Wootton and the sacking of Laurence Fox (pictured) and Calvin Robinson

A broadcast on 4 April 2022 was looked into for a potential breach of "fairness" regulations regarding Russian war crimes in Ukraine, but was cleared.[199] Farage's 23 August 2021 broadcast was investigated for "offensive language" but was later cleared by the regulator.[199]

In July 2023 Ofcom launched an investigation regarding a potential breach of rules that prevent politicians from acting as newsreaders regarding a broadcast made by Conservative MP Rees-Mogg.[213] A further four investigations were launched the following month.[214]

On 27 September 2023 GB News suspended Laurence Fox and £600,000 pa, Dan Wootton[215] and launched an internal investigation into their "totally unacceptable" misogynistic comments about a female journalist that were broadcast on the channel the night before.[216] Ofcom also launched an investigation into the incident after receiving more than 7,300 complaints.[217] Wootton's column with MailOnline had previously been paused regarding "a series of allegations", but DMG Media said "following events this week" (regarding the incident on GB News) that they had terminated his contract.[218] In support of the comments made on the channel, Calvin Robinson indicated that he would not be appearing on Wootton's scheduled show without Wootton.[219] Robinson was suspended on 29 September.[220] Chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos called the comments "appalling".[219] The following week Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were sacked by GB News.[221] In March 2024, Wootton confirmed he had "exited" GB News following the completion of Ofcom's investigation into the 8,867 complaints. Ofcom's statement on the 4 March, expressed "significant concerns about GB New's editorial control of its live output" citing its "offence rules". It has requested a meeting with the broadcaster, to discuss its compliance practices.[215][222]

Ofcom decided not to pursue a full impartiality investigation into a broadcast by Lee Anderson on 29 September where he interviewed fellow Conversative, Suella Braverman, which had 1697 complaints.[209] On 23 October Ofcom announced that they were launching an investigation into the 23 June broadcast of Friday Morning with Esther and Philip.[223]

In February 2024 Ofcom cleared a broadcast by Neil Oliver where it was claimed that COVID-19 vaccines were linked to cases of turbo cancer, an anti-vax myth.[224][225]

On 14 February 2024 Ofcom released a statement on X (Formerly Twitter) that they had received a significant number of complaints about a controversial Peoples Forum involving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak which many viewers considered a clear breach of Ofcom's broadcasting code with a poor attempt to dupe the audience it was not a Party Political Broadcast just days before two by-elections.[226] [227] On 20 May 2024, Ofcom's investigation into the incident concluded that GB News's failure to preserve due impartiality was "serious and – given its two previous breaches of these rules – repeated." Ofcom subsequently began the process of considering a statutory sanction against GB News.[228]

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Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Ofcom describes GB News's licence type as editorial.

External links edit

  • Official website  

January 01, 1970
news, british, free, opinion, orientated, news, television, radio, channel, channel, available, freeview, freesat, youview, virgin, media, internet, samsung, plus, youtube, audio, simulcast, station, also, available, radio, countryunited, kingdombroadcast, are. GB News is a British free to air opinion orientated a news television and radio channel The channel is available on Freeview Freesat Sky YouView Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus and YouTube An audio simulcast of the station is also available on DAB radio GB NewsCountryUnited KingdomBroadcast areaUnited KingdomIrelandEuropeHeadquartersLondon England UKProgrammingLanguage s EnglishOwnershipOwnerAll Perspectives Ltd Key peopleAlan McCormick Chairman 1 Angelos Frangopoulos CEO HistoryLaunched13 June 2021 2 years ago 2021 06 13 FounderAndrew ColeMark SchneiderLinksWebsitewww wbr gbnews wbr comAvailabilityTerrestrialFreeviewChannel 236 SD Streaming mediagbnews comLive streamYouTubeLive stream Announced in September 2020 and launched in June 2021 from studios at Paddington Basin London GB News became Britain s first television news start up since the launch of Sky News in 1989 2 It was set up with the aim of broadcasting original news opinion and debate with a mix of news coverage and opinion based content The channel is described as right leaning on political issues 3 4 5 The channel has faced criticism several times for providing a platform to far right figures without adequately challenging their rhetoric 6 7 8 It is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum under the umbrella of a holding company All Perspectives Ltd which is headquartered in London As of August 2022 update All Perspectives Ltd was controlled by three significant shareholders all of whom work for Christopher Chandler s Dubai based investment firm Legatum 9 10 The CEO of GB News is Angelos Frangopoulos 11 12 who formerly ran Sky News Australia The first chairman of GB News was Andrew Neil who left the BBC in 2020 to set up the channel and present a prime time evening programme He presented only nine shows and resigned from his roles at the channel on 13 September 2021 13 three months after its official launch The channel has been found to have breached Ofcom s standards on several occasions and as of 12 November 2023 was the subject of fourteen investigations 14 into its compliance with Ofcom s due impartiality rules including cases of potential breaches of the rule that apart from exceptional circumstances politicians should not act as newsreaders reporters or interviewers 15 Hosts of shows on the channel include Nigel Farage Eamonn Holmes Michael Portillo Jacob Rees Mogg Mark Dolan and Camilla Tominey Contents 1 History 1 1 Foundation 1 2 Launch 1 3 Post Andrew Neil era 1 4 Influx of politician presenters 2 Transmission 2 1 Television 2 2 Radio 3 Programming 4 Reception 4 1 Advertiser response 4 2 Ratings public response and awards 4 3 Criticisms 5 Ofcom investigations 5 1 Breaches of code 5 2 Other investigations 6 On air staff 7 See also 8 References 9 Footnotes 10 External linksHistory editFor a chronological guide see Timeline of GB News Foundation edit All Perspectives Ltd was founded as the holding company of GB News in September 2019 and was granted a licence to broadcast by Ofcom in January 2020 16 17 GB News was founded by Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider two executives associated with the chairman of Liberty Global John C Malone 17 By August 2022 Cole and Schneider had resigned as directors after their holdings in the company were purchased by backers Sir Paul Marshall and Legatum 10 nbsp Andrew Neil former GB News chairman and presenter was the face of the channel in the run up to its launch On 25 September 2020 it was announced that Andrew Neil who had presented live political programmes on the BBC for 25 years 18 would leave the corporation after leading its coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election He said that he had been in discussions to continue working on the BBC in a new format after the cancellation of his programme The Andrew Neil Show but that these talks had not come to fruition and he had accepted the post of chairman of a new television news channel 19 On the same day he was announced as the presenter of a prime time evening programme on the channel due to launch early the next year In a statement Neil said that the channel would champion robust balanced debate and a range of perspectives on the issues that affect everyone in the UK not just those living in the London area and GB News was addressing a perceived gap in the market for the vast number of British people who feel underserved and unheard by their media 20 In December 2020 Paul Marshall a hedge fund manager was in talks to invest 10 million into GB News 21 On 6 January 2021 GB News reached its 60 million fundraising aim which it said was oversubscribed The majority of the 60 million came from the Dubai based investment firm Legatum Marshall who said he was investing in a personal capacity and American multinational Discovery Inc after the merger of Discovery with WarnerMedia owners of CNN to form Warner Bros Discovery the company s stake in All Perspectives was bought out by the other backers in August 2022 as part of an additional capital injection of 60 million 22 10 Prior to its launch GB News said it would recruit 140 staff including 120 journalists and would also launch streaming video on demand and audio services 22 Since then CEO Angelos Frangopoulos reported that the channel had employed over 200 journalists 23 The recruitment drive began on 25 January 2021 24 The first presenters and journalists announced in the recruitment drive were Dan Wootton 25 Colin Brazier 26 Darren McCaffrey Tom Harwood 26 Michelle Dewberry 27 Inaya Folarin Iman 28 and Alex Phillips 29 Following Piers Morgan s departure from Good Morning Britain on 9 March 30 Neil expressed interest in Morgan joining GB News instead 31 Neil later said that talks were affected by a disagreement he s Morgan got his own idea of what he is worth and we GB News have a slightly different idea of what he s worth 32 Later staff announced as joining the channel prior to its launch were Liam Halligan 33 Andrew Doyle 34 Rosie Wright 35 Simon McCoy 36 Kirsty Gallacher 37 Alastair Stewart 38 Neil Oliver 39 Gloria De Piero 40 Mercy Muroki 41 and Isabel Webster 42 For the period ending 31 May 2021 All Perspectives Ltd made a loss of 2 7 million 43 Launch edit GB News commenced broadcasting at 20 00 BST on 13 June 2021 44 45 Neil launched the channel by saying We are proud to be British the clue is in the name 46 and after the opening night was said to be jubilant that his programme had out rated Sky News and BBC News Channel combined 47 nbsp Nigel Farage former leader of UKIP and the Brexit Party presents a prime time show on GB News On 20 June Nigel Farage and Dehenna Davison joined GB News as contributors to host the Sunday morning political discussion programme The Political Correction 48 49 50 Neil took a break from presenting on the channel on 24 June less than two weeks after its launch 51 It was reported by The Guardian in July that John McAndrew director of news and programmes formerly of Sky News and Euronews had stood down from his role 52 Senior executive producer Gill Penlington formerly of CNN ITV and Sky News also left the channel in early July 52 On 17 July it was announced that Nigel Farage already a contributing presenter would host Farage a prime time evening show from 19 July 53 54 Later that month Mark Dolan joined the channel 55 The following month Talkradio s Patrick Christys joined to present To the Point on weekday mornings alongside Mercy Muroki The programme replaced Brazier amp Muroki 56 On 10 August the channel announced four political programmes to launch within weeks The Briefing AM with Tom Harwood The Briefing Lunchtime with Gloria De Piero The Briefing PM with Darren McCaffrey and The Briefing PMQs 57 The following month political journalist Isabel Oakeshott joined to host a weekly show 58 Neil was expected to have rejoined GB News in early September but multiple news sources reported that his return had been postponed with some speculating that this postponement might become indefinite 59 On 13 September he announced he was stepping down as chairman and would no longer be presenting on the channel 60 61 Later that month on the BBC s Question Time he said that he had become a minority of one on the channel s board due to disputes over its approach to journalism 62 Neil was replaced as a presenter by Colin Brazier in what The Telegraph described as a fight back by swinging to the right 63 Neil had been on a contract worth 4 million and included stress among the reasons for departing GB News 64 In November 2021 Neil called his decision to lead the channel the single biggest mistake of his career 65 Post Andrew Neil era edit nbsp Jacob Rees Mogg was one of the high profile presenters joining the channel in 2023 In October following the launch announcement of rival TalkTV GB News introduced half hourly news bulletins and Sunday Express editor Mick Booker joined as editorial director 66 In late 2021 it was announced that Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster would present a Monday to Thursday breakfast show Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond would present this show Friday to Sunday In January 2022 the channel announced it would play God Save the Queen at the start of live programming every day 67 68 Camilla Tominey Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce were announced as new presenters in August 2022 10 Also after the merger of AT amp T s WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc the shares that Discovery had initially acquired in the channel s early days were put up for sale by new media group Warner Bros Discovery 69 70 71 72 Discovery s 25 stake was sold for 8 million valuing the company at 32 million almost half of what it was valued at in 2021 73 nbsp Michael Portillo hosts a show on politics culture and the arts In early September 2022 in a shakeup of the channel s afternoon programming it was announced that presenters Colin Brazier and Alex Phillips had left the channel 74 In the days following the death of Queen Elizabeth II all regular programming was stopped and no advertisements were shown on the channel with Alastair Stewart Dan Wootton Nigel Farage Mark Longhurst and Patrick Christys presenting most of the coverage of the death of the Queen and Charles III s accession to the throne 75 In September 2022 novelist and former Head of Daytime at ITV and Channel 4 Helen Warner was appointed Head of Television at GB News 76 Warner left the channel four months later in January 2023 77 In October 2022 it was announced that actor and comedian John Cleese would be presenting his own show on GB News in 2023 78 In 2022 Conservative member of the House of Lords Helena Morrissey Baroness Morrissey became a director of GB News s parent company All Perspectives 79 Following the cancellation of the weekday show To the Point in November 2022 Bev Turner began hosting her own GB News show Bev Turner Today She had already been a stand in presenter on the channel 80 Influx of politician presenters edit In January 2023 GB News announced that the Conservative MP for North East Somerset and former Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees Mogg would join the channel as a presenter 81 ACOBA were notified of Rees Mogg s appointment and made clear that his role with the channel is subject to a number of conditions 82 A fifth Conservative MP Lee Anderson was announced to be joining the channel s hosting lineup in March 83 Ofcom have found the channel to have breached its standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation 84 During GB News first year on air their financial year ending May 2022 the company made a loss of 30 7 million 85 Stewart retired as a regular presenter in 2023 86 In July 2023 an investigation was launched by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding Lee Anderson and a promotional video created for his GB News show 87 In August 2023 Byline Times revealed that GB News had settled an employment claim for a five figure sum in which sexual harassment was alleged against its chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos and shut down serious racism and bullying allegations raised by two other journalists with further pay outs and gagging agreements 88 In October 2023 it was announced that Conservative politician former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson would be joining GB News in a presenting role 89 Fellow upcoming GB News presenter John Cleese commented on Johnson s appointment noting that I can hardly believe that GB News will give this proven serial liar his own programme 90 However Johnson is believed to have cold feet about taking the role 91 In November 2023 it was revealed that ownership of shares in the channel had been handed out to a number of people including some of the network s presenters such as Nigel Farage Arlene Foster Eamonn Holmes Jacob Rees Mogg Neil Oliver Camilla Tominey and Dan Wootton 92 Laurence Fox had also been given shares though these were cancelled upon his leaving 92 Michael Farmer Baron Farmer former treasurer of the Conservative party increased his stake meanwhile Michael Spencer sold his stake 92 In 2023 former Channel 4 journalist Michael Crick who has regularly featured on Jacob Rees Mogg s programme on GB News 93 spoke to Neil Oliver on his show discussing freedom of speech During his appearance he said that Ofcom should regulate the channel for being politically biased saying I ve been fighting bias in television for a very long time and it s one of the reasons I left Channel 4 News cause I thought it was left wing biased and I think Ofcom which is one of the weakest institutions on the planet should get a grip on you lot It s absurd that you have Tory MP after Tory MP after Tory MP two leaders of the Brexit Party as hosts and hardly any Labour MPs you are a right wing channel and the rules in this country are very clear 94 95 Crick was abruptly removed from the programme and studio following his remarks as the channel went to an advert break When the show went back on air Oliver said that he was very disappointed about the sequence of events that just unfolded The last thing I want to see during a conversation between grown ups about censorship is that conversation being brought abruptly to a close by others I feel that that conversation should have gone on to its conclusion That s the situation in which I find myself I don t stand by censorship 95 In a later discussion he characterised the situation as a discussion about censorship being censored 95 Crick later described GB News as a right wing propaganda channel 93 In the financial year to May 2023 the company s losses grew by 38 to 42 4 million bringing the total deficit to 76m since its launch 96 In that financial year the company s losses were six times greater than revenue 96 In April 2024 the company started its first major redundancy exercise with 40 roles to be removed 97 Transmission editTelevision edit nbsp GB News headquarters Riverbank House building pictured on left is separate from its studios in Paddington The channel s office headquarters are at Riverbank House in London 98 and it has studios at The Point building in the Paddington Basin area of the city 99 100 Later the channel also began to broadcast from a studio on Albert Embankment with views towards Westminster and the Houses of Parliament In 2023 GB News confirmed that it was expanding to another location in Westminster 101 The channel began broadcasting from the new location on 28 August 2023 and later broadcast entire programmes from the new complex located in the former Sky News Westminster studio at the QE2 Centre citation needed GB News employs around 120 journalists comedians and presenters 102 Several serving Members of Parliament are currently employed as presenters on the channel including some who recently held positions within the previous Johnson and Truss cabinets 81 Ofcom s rules state that MPs can be presenters but cannot be utilised as newsreaders 103 GB News is transmitted on digital terrestrial television in standard definition and in high definition on a satellite It originally used the Astra 2F satellite 104 105 providing coverage of mostly the British Isles only but switched to Astra 2G in November 2023 making reception in all of Europe possible The transmissions are available on the Freeview YouView 106 Freesat Channel 216 HD 107 Sky and Virgin Media platforms 108 The channel is also available live on the GB News application for mobile devices on iOS and Android 109 Red Bee Media has provided playout services for GB News since the channel s launch 110 In March 2023 GB News changed its top level domain from uk to com with the intention of attracting foreign readers 111 In August 2023 GB News had a total identified monthly audience including sharing and streaming of 2 786 000 with a nearly 1 minute average daily viewing according to BARB 112 In October 2023 GB News was banned from the Welsh Senedd s internal TV system with a spokesperson for the presiding officer claiming the channel was deliberately offensive demeaning to public debate and contrary to our parliament s values 113 Radio edit Following the launch of its television channel in July 2021 GB News announced its intention to launch a national 24 hour radio station GB News Radio on the Digital One digital radio multiplex 114 115 The radio station is an audio simulcast of the televised channel rather than a separate production and started test transmissions in December 2021 114 Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster were the first to be heard on the simulcast when their television breakfast show started on 4 January 2022 116 117 118 RAJAR publishes quarterly statistics on radio audiences GB News had a weekly audience of 317 000 for a listening share of 0 2 for June 2023 119 q ending Jun23 By the end of the third quarter of 2023 that figure had risen to 398 000 120 Figures for the final quarter of 2023 published on 1 February 2024 showed an average weekly audience of 430 000 121 Programming edit nbsp Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a high profile presenter announced for the channel in 2023 Neil stated in January 2021 that the channel would be a fresh approach to news in Britain Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland 122 20 The channel plans to air 6 500 hours of original news opinion and debate per year and it has hired 120 journalists 123 26 20 Neil has said that the channel would not provide rolling news but would in similarity with some US networks like MSNBC and Fox News divide each day into individual programmes news based programmes built around very strong presenters 124 He said that it would aim to offer programming that would become an appointment to view 125 CEO Angelos Frangopoulos added that it will be a mix of news coverage and opinion where it will be taking a very different view on the regulatory environment that is controlled by Ofcom 126 Instead of providing rolling news the channel would be a mix of news analysis opinion and debate 26 Five months before the channel launched BBC News media editor Amol Rajan said GB News would be the first in the United Kingdom to be set up with an explicit political orientation 127 Other forecasters also said the channel would be right leaning 128 129 130 131 132 and it was predicted by the Financial Times 133 The Guardian and City A M that it would be similar to Fox News 125 17 In The New York Times Neil was quoted as saying In terms of formatting and style I think MSNBC and Fox are the two templates we re following 134 He also told the Evening Standard that Fox News was an easy inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do In terms of format we are like Fox but we won t be like Fox in that they come from a hard right disinformation fake news conspiracy agenda I have worked too long and hard to build up a journalistic reputation to consider going down that route 135 While acknowledging the channel to have an explicit right wing political leaning BBC media editor Amol Rajan also stated that the validity of the Fox News comparison is limited 25 GB News has not explicitly indicated a political allegiance and UK news broadcasters are required by Ofcom to maintain due impartiality 136 26 nbsp Comic actor John Cleese has his own show on the channel called The Dinosaur Hour In a March 2021 episode of BBC Radio 4 s The Media Show Neil stated that his nightly news programme would contain segments such as Wokewatch and Mediawatch 137 138 The channel s breakfast show The Great British Breakfast initially had three co anchors in a similar style to Fox News Fox amp Friends 37 but the format changed to two co anchors from the second week of broadcasting Free Speech Nation a current affairs show hosted by Andrew Doyle airs once a week 34 Comparisons in programming format and political leanings have also been made between GB News and Sky News Australia itself formerly led by GB News CEO Angelos Frangopoulos 139 140 In May 2022 former GB News staff told the New Statesman that at times they were so desperate for guests they had resorted to booking their own parents 141 GB News has also produced comedy shows such as a weekly topical comedy panel show titled Ministry of Offence 142 143 and a comedic newspaper review show Headliners 144 In July 2023 presenter Dan Wootton used his GB News show to publicly deny any wrongdoing regarding allegations made in the press about his conduct 145 During a 6 minute monologue Wootton explained that he had made errors of judgment in the past but that criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue 145 Zoe Williams columnist on The Guardian newspaper has suggested that commercial success is of little relevance to the channel with backers of the parent company prepared to cover its losses 42m for the year ending in May 2023 and effectively make large donations to politicians for presenting programs aligned with their views 146 Reception editThe channel launched to a mixed reception 147 148 Judith Woods writing for The Telegraph two days after the channel s launch described it as unutterably awful boring repetitive and cheapskate rating it one out of five stars Chris Bennion of The Telegraph rated it four out of five stars writing On launch night the GB News message came through loud and clear despite glitches 147 149 Jemima Kelly wrote for the Financial Times GB News is so tedious so lacking in nuance so whiny and frankly so low quality it is actually making me more sympathetic to the cause of those they deem woke 150 In a 2023 poll by YouGov 12 of respondents ranked GB News as a trusted news brand compared to the BBC s 44 151 Advertiser response edit In February 2021 four months before the station began broadcasting the pressure group Stop Funding Hate called for advertisers to boycott the station based on what they thought it would represent 152 In June 2021 following the station s launch several brands including Vodafone IKEA Kopparbergs Brewery Grolsch Nivea Pinterest Specsavers and Octopus Energy paused their advertising on the channel expressing concerns over its content Some of these advertisements had been placed on the brands behalf without their knowledge by Sky Media through their advertising opt outs during GB News s schedule 153 154 155 The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden criticised Stop Funding Hate and what he described as a vocal Twitter minority for calling for the advertising boycott 156 157 In November 2023 in response to an advertiser boycott GB News introduced an online paywall with three membership tiers The channel known for its outspoken approach chose to seek new revenue streams following substantial financial losses in its first year and ongoing controversies including breaches of impartiality rules and run ins with the broadcasting regulator Ofcom 158 Ratings public response and awards edit 336 000 viewers tuned in to see the launch of GB News 159 The launch soon became the subject of ridicule due to the perceived poor production quality of the channel and frequent technical issues 160 The channel also became subject to a number of pranks including prank calls and gag names such as GBeebies a pun on the children s channel CBeebies 161 162 163 Viewership fell following the launch of the channel 164 165 166 A month after its launch its daily viewership of just over 1 million trailed Sky News 2 5 to 3 million viewers 167 Audience figures subsequently fell further and on 14 July audience figures dropped so low they were reported as zero by the ratings measurement board BARB at least twice on the day attributed to regular viewers boycotting the station after one of its presenters Guto Harri took a knee on air in solidarity with the England football team 168 GB News suspended the presenter describing the event as an unacceptable breach of our standards 169 170 Harri later confirmed that he had permanently left the channel 171 The first episode of Nigel Farage s show on 19 July attracted an average audience of 100 000 172 In August 2021 seven weeks after GB News launch Ian Burrell wrote in the Evening Standard This channel has been both lampooned and ignored but critics need to get used to something GB News isn t going away 173 The Daily Telegraph reported that in October 2021 Nigel Farage remained the station s biggest draw hauling in between 50 000 and 80 000 viewers while most of the channel s output remains firmly below 30 000 174 A Daily Telegraph report in December 2021 stated that Farage s nightly programme regularly gets around 150 000 viewers 175 In February 2022 Press Gazette published an article including statistics on the audience and social following for GB News compared with other channels The article noted that GB News four week audience reach was slightly up in early January to 2 2 million compared to a low point in November 2021 176 In May 2022 figures published by Radio Joint Audience Research Limited RAJAR showed GB News Radio had received an average audience of 239 000 listeners in its first three months of broadcasting 177 RAJAR figures for the second quarter of 2022 showed the channel s listenership grew by a further 16 to 277 000 listeners making it the second fastest growing radio channel in the UK behind the BBC World Service 178 Subsequently between July and September 2022 GB News Radio s weekly audience grew by 50 to 415 000 119 it was reported to be the only news radio channel to increase its audience during this period 179 180 According to an annual poll of 45 000 UK consumers by the market research company Savanta in 2022 GB News was the nation s third most loved news brand behind The Guardian and Metro 181 In the May 2023 survey it was ranked as the UK s most loved news brand ahead of The Guardian and The Sun 182 183 Savanta explained that the channel s high ranking was a result of its Marmite appeal whereby its dedicated viewers are obsessively positive about the channel Savanta explained that GB News taps into a certain demographic s belief that mainstream media cannot be trusted 184 In December 2022 Press Gazette reported that GB News had beaten Sky News in primetime ratings over a 30 day period with 57 107 viewers to Sky s 52 230 The channel remained behind Sky News for all day viewership but recorded a 48 increase in primetime viewers relative to the same period in 2021 The article also quoted a Christmas memo sent to staff by Frangopoulos who said that In just 18 months you have worked as a team to end Sky News undisputed 33 year reign as the most watched commercial news channel in the United Kingdom Frangopoulos added that BARB figures showed the channel s fastest growing areas were in Red Wall regions across the north east 17 in Q4 so far the north west 14 and Yorkshire 12 185 In June 2023 at the TRIC Awards GB News Breakfast show won the Multichannel News Programme award and Nigel Farage won the News Presenter award 186 Farage was booed by some members of the audience during his acceptance speech 187 188 The event was sponsored by GB News along with businesses and several other media organisations 189 Criticisms edit The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the All Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism have criticised broadcasts on GB News for what they feel to be promoting conspiratorial antisemitism or other misinformation particularly making note of some of Neil Oliver s broadcasts 190 GB News have been accused of demonising transgender people by figures such as broadcaster India Willoughby 191 PinkNews and The Argus reported that social media users criticised an alternative BBC Match of the Day programme aired on the channel on 11 March 2023 as being homophobic because it mocked Brighton and its LGBTQ community 192 193 Alan Tyers of The Telegraph described the programme as an orgy of inanity 194 Ofcom received 222 complaints about the segment 195 196 but decided not to investigate the incident 197 When reporting the October 2023 Gaza Israel conflict a number of pro Hamas messages were read out on air by Nana Akua 198 GB News apologised for the broadcast and confirmed that counter terrorism police were reviewing the footage 198 Ofcom investigations edit nbsp Two of Mark Steyn s features on the channel breached standards regarding misinformation about COVID 19 Within the channel s first year Ofcom were prompted to launch five separate investigations into its broadcasts 199 As of May 2023 update more than 4 500 complaints about GB News programmes had been lodged with Ofcom since its launch 200 Ofcom received 373 complaints relating to a monologue made on the opening night s edition of Tonight Live with Dan Wootton in which Wootton argued against the government s extension of the COVID 19 related lockdowns in the UK 201 Ofcom decided not to pursue any of the complaints a spokesperson saying Our rules allow for rigorous debate around the response to coronavirus consistent with the right to free expression 202 Furthermore Ofcom have publicly commented on and clarified rules on politicians presenting programmes following the influx of politicians to both TalkTV and GB News 103 As of October 2023 update Ofcom have found GB News to have breached their licence on six separate occasions five of those being considered as significant although the regulator did not impose any sanctions such as fines or a request for an on air clarification 200 14 additional investigations are still pending 14 In November 2023 Ofcom chairman Michael Grade told the BBC s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the regulator did not want to be in the business of telling broadcasters licensees who they can employ who they can t employ 14 Breaches of code edit On 7 November 2022 Ofcom announced its first finding against GB News concluding that the channel breached its radio licence in an episode of To The Point on 2 March 2022 Covering the Erdington by election GB News displayed a graphic listing all candidates as required by Rules 6 8 to 6 12 of the Code However the presenters did not finish reading aloud the whole list instead advising listeners on its radio simulcast that it was available on social media All the candidates names were therefore not read out in full for the channel s audio simulcast as required by rule 6 10 Ofcom issued no sanction against the channel 203 On 6 March 2023 Ofcom announced that it had found the Mark Steyn programme aired on 21 April 2022 in breach of broadcasting rules for a materially misleading interpretation of official data about COVID 19 84 In February 2023 Steyn revealed on his website that his GB News programme had been cancelled and that the channel had made an offer which he had to refuse because it would have ended his right to free speech on air 204 205 On 9 May 2023 Ofcom found that Mark Steyn breached standards on 4 October 2022 206 The investigation into Steyn s programme on 4 October 2022 related to comments by Naomi Wolf a figure who has previously been banned from Twitter for spreading anti vaccine misinformation 199 No sanctions were imposed but following their investigation Ofcom arranged a meeting with GB News to discuss its approach to compliance 200 In April 2023 Ofcom launched an investigation regarding a potential breach of impartiality rules during a programme broadcast on 11 March that was hosted by two Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies where they interviewed a fellow Conservative MP Chancellor Jeremy Hunt about his then imminent Spring Budget 207 The programme was confirmed by Ofcom to be in breach of their regulations five months later 208 Ofcom decided that the 16 June broadcast featuring Martin Daubney breached due impartiality rules when interviewing Richard Tice about immigration but Ofcom did not impose any further sanctions 209 In response GB News acknowledged that the content was non compliant and stated that our staff will receive further training focused on the issues raised by this broadcast 210 In December 2023 Ofcom ruled that the channel had breached impartiality rules with an episode of The Live Desk broadcast on 7 July 2023 which promoted its branded campaign Don t Kill Cash 211 On 18 March 2024 Ofcom ruled that two episodes of Jacob Rees Mogg s State Of The Nation two episodes of Friday Morning With Esther And Phil and one episode of Saturday Morning With Esther And Phil broadcast during May and June 2023 failed to comply with Rules 5 1 and 5 3 of the Broadcasting Code which state a politician cannot be a newsreader news interviewer or news reporter unless exceptionally there is editorial justification 212 Other investigations edit nbsp Misogynistic comments broadcast on the channel led to the suspension and exit of Dan Wootton and the sacking of Laurence Fox pictured and Calvin Robinson A broadcast on 4 April 2022 was looked into for a potential breach of fairness regulations regarding Russian war crimes in Ukraine but was cleared 199 Farage s 23 August 2021 broadcast was investigated for offensive language but was later cleared by the regulator 199 In July 2023 Ofcom launched an investigation regarding a potential breach of rules that prevent politicians from acting as newsreaders regarding a broadcast made by Conservative MP Rees Mogg 213 A further four investigations were launched the following month 214 On 27 September 2023 GB News suspended Laurence Fox and 600 000 pa Dan Wootton 215 and launched an internal investigation into their totally unacceptable misogynistic comments about a female journalist that were broadcast on the channel the night before 216 Ofcom also launched an investigation into the incident after receiving more than 7 300 complaints 217 Wootton s column with MailOnline had previously been paused regarding a series of allegations but DMG Media said following events this week regarding the incident on GB News that they had terminated his contract 218 In support of the comments made on the channel Calvin Robinson indicated that he would not be appearing on Wootton s scheduled show without Wootton 219 Robinson was suspended on 29 September 220 Chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos called the comments appalling 219 The following week Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were sacked by GB News 221 In March 2024 Wootton confirmed he had exited GB News following the completion of Ofcom s investigation into the 8 867 complaints Ofcom s statement on the 4 March expressed significant concerns about GB New s editorial control of its live output citing its offence rules It has requested a meeting with the broadcaster to discuss its compliance practices 215 222 Ofcom decided not to pursue a full impartiality investigation into a broadcast by Lee Anderson on 29 September where he interviewed fellow Conversative Suella Braverman which had 1697 complaints 209 On 23 October Ofcom announced that they were launching an investigation into the 23 June broadcast of Friday Morning with Esther and Philip 223 In February 2024 Ofcom cleared a broadcast by Neil Oliver where it was claimed that COVID 19 vaccines were linked to cases of turbo cancer an anti vax myth 224 225 On 14 February 2024 Ofcom released a statement on X Formerly Twitter that they had received a significant number of complaints about a controversial Peoples Forum involving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak which many viewers considered a clear breach of Ofcom s broadcasting code with a poor attempt to dupe the audience it was not a Party Political Broadcast just days before two by elections 226 227 On 20 May 2024 Ofcom s investigation into the incident concluded that GB News s failure to preserve due impartiality was serious and given its two previous breaches of these rules repeated Ofcom subsequently began the process of considering a statutory sanction against GB News 228 On air staff editPresenters Nana Akua Lee Anderson Patrick Christys John Cleese Philip Davies Gloria De Piero Michelle Dewberry Anne Diamond Stephen Dixon Mark Dolan Andrew Doyle Simon Evans Nigel 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original on 12 January 2022 via www telegraph co uk Aitken Robin 22 December 2021 Six months in GB News is defying its Left wing critics except on one issue The Telegraph via www telegraph co uk Tobitt Charlotte 17 February 2022 GB News audience growth Channel bounces back after bumpy 2021 Press Gazette Article with audience and social following figures and graphs for GB News and other channels Ken Bruce remains most popular UK radio host as mid morning trend prevails The Guardian 18 May 2022 Retrieved 21 May 2022 Tobitt Charlotte 4 August 2022 TalkTV and GB News see radio audience boost in Q2 RAJAR figures Press Gazette Retrieved 15 September 2022 White Debbie 27 October 2022 BBC Today programme loses half a million listeners The Times Retrieved 27 October 2022 Maher Bron 27 October 2022 RAJARs GB News Radio is fastest growing station as it makes ground on News UK rivals Press Gazette Retrieved 27 October 2022 BrandVue s Most Loved Media Brands 2022 PDF Savanta Retrieved 7 September 2022 Who is the UK s Most Loved Media Brand Savanta PDF savanta com 25 May 2023 Archived from the original PDF on 25 May 2023 Retrieved 25 May 2023 Austin Shaun 25 May 2023 The Great Disruptors how GB News became Savanta s most loved news brand Savanta Retrieved 25 May 2023 Waterson Jim Topping Alexandra 27 September 2023 Laurence Fox comments prompt rare climbdown by home of free speech GB News The Guardian Retrieved 28 September 2023 Maher Bron 23 December 2022 GB News beat Sky News for prime time ratings over past month Press Gazette Retrieved 24 December 2022 Manning Jonathon 27 June 2023 Paul O Grady and Nigel Farage among winners at The TRIC Awards Manchester Evening News Retrieved 7 July 2023 Nigel Farage Heckled And Booed After Winning TV Award HuffPost UK 27 June 2023 Retrieved 12 July 2023 Patrick Holly 28 June 2023 Farage booed as he accepts award for best news presenter Keep the abuse coming Independent TV Retrieved 12 July 2023 Our Partners TRIC Retrieved 27 June 2023 Bloch Been 8 February 2023 MPs and Board of Deputies slam antisemitic conspiracy theories on GB News The Jewish Chronicle Retrieved 8 February 2023 Dex Robert 23 June 2021 India Willoughby accuses GB News of demonising trans people Evening Standard Retrieved 8 April 2023 Williamson Harriet 12 March 2023 GB News host spouts casual homophobia in alternative Match of the Day broadcast PinkNews Retrieved 12 March 2023 Viewers criticise GB News alternative Match Of The Day for mocking Brighton The Argus 12 March 2023 Retrieved 13 March 2023 Tyers Alan 13 March 2023 I watched the GB News version of Match of the Day so you don t have to The Telegraph Retrieved 20 June 2023 Mcneil Daniel 16 March 2023 GB News Match of the Day episode aired during Gary Lineker s suspension receives over 200 Ofcom complaints Edingburgh News Retrieved 20 June 2023 Weekly audience report PDF Ofcom 13 March 2023 Retrieved 7 April 2023 Billson Chantelle 4 April 2023 GB News spouting casual homophobia about Gary Lineker is OK according to Ofcom PinkNews a b Rosenberg Michelle GB News sorry for reading out pro Hamas emails live on air www jewishnews co uk Retrieved 9 October 2023 a b c d Tobitt Charlotte 8 August 2022 First two Ofcom investigations into GB News end with no rebukes Press Gazette Retrieved 14 August 2022 a b c Ofcom finds GB News in breach of broadcasting rules for a second time Ofcom 9 May 2023 Retrieved 9 May 2023 Malvern Jack 16 June 2021 GB News viewers complain to Ofcom about anti lockdown diatribe The Times ISSN 0140 0460 Archived from the original on 16 June 2021 Retrieved 16 June 2021 Ofcom will not investigate complaints over Dan Wootton s GB News show BBC News 5 July 2021 Archived from the original on 6 July 2021 Retrieved 6 July 2021 Ofcom Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin PDF Ofocm 7 November 2022 Retrieved 7 November 2022 Steyn Mark 6 February 2023 Has OfCom Popped Steyn s Balloon SteynOnline Retrieved 7 February 2023 Mark Steyn Cancelled retrieved 7 February 2023 by David Kurten via YouTube Ofcom investigation into GB News Mark Steyn programme Ofcom 12 October 2022 Retrieved 13 October 2022 Ofcom investigates GB News over Esther McVey and Philip Davies show BBC News 3 April 2023 Retrieved 3 April 2023 Ofcom finds GB News in breach of due impartiality rules Ofcom 18 September 2023 Retrieved 18 September 2023 a b Update on GB News impartiality cases Ofcom 23 October 2023 Retrieved 23 October 2023 GB News Ofcom rules breached over Richard Tice interview BBC News 23 October 2023 GB News Ofcom rules breached over Don t Kill Cash campaign BBC News 18 December 2023 Retrieved 19 December 2023 Five Episodes of GB News programmes presented by Tory MPs found to have broken Ofcom rules Sky News 18 March 2024 Retrieved 18 March 2024 Ofcom to investigate episode of Jacob Rees Mogg s GB News show BBC News 3 July 2023 Retrieved 4 July 2023 Goldbart Max 7 August 2023 Four More GB News Probes Opened By Ofcom Including Into Laurence Fox Show Deadline Hollywood Retrieved 7 August 2023 a b Knox Susan Delaney Zoe 5 March 2024 Dan Wootton issues statement as he exits GB News amid Ofcom ruling The Mirror Retrieved 6 March 2024 GB News suspends Wootton after Fox comments BBC News 27 September 2023 Retrieved 27 September 2023 Ofcom opens investigation into GB News under our rules on offence Ofcom 28 September 2023 Retrieved 28 September 2023 MailOnline ends Dan Wootton column after Laurence Fox row BBC News 28 September 2023 Retrieved 29 September 2023 a b GB News boss condemns Laurence Fox comments as fellow presenter boycotts show in support of Dan Wootton Sky News Retrieved 29 September 2023 Third GB News presenter Calvin Robinson suspended as channel boss condemns Laurence Fox comments Sky News Retrieved 29 September 2023 Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson sacked by GB News BBC News 4 October 2023 Retrieved 4 October 2023 Misogynistic comments on Dan Wootton Tonight broke offence rules Ofcom 4 March 2024 Retrieved 6 March 2024 GB News show hosted by stand in presenter Martin Daubney breached impartiality Perspective Magazine 23 October 2023 Retrieved 23 October 2023 MacDonald Stuart Kendix Max 9 February 2024 GB News presenter Neil Oliver cleared by Ofcom over turbo cancer claims Watling Tom 7 February 2024 GB News presenter Neil Oliver cleared by Ofcom over turbo cancer conspiracy claims The Independent Ofcom tweet X Retrieved 19 February 2024 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak s People s Forum Program Attracts Impartiality Investigation Into GB News by U K Media Regulator Variety GB News could face sanction after breaking due impartiality rules 20 May 2024 Footnotes edit Ofcom describes GB News s licence type as editorial External links editOfficial website nbsp Portals nbsp Current events nbsp Journalism nbsp Politics nbsp Television nbsp United Kingdom Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title GB News amp oldid 1224794185, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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