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GB News

March 27, 2023

GB News is a British free-to-air television and radio channel. The channel is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet. Since 4 January 2022, an audio simulcast of the station is available on DAB+ radio.

GB News
TypeTelevision news channel
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast area
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerAll Perspectives Ltd.
Key peopleAngelos Frangopoulos (CEO)
History
Launched13 June 2021; 21 months 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, the channel became Britain's first television news start-up for more than 30 years, since the launch of Sky News in 1989.[1] It was set up with the aim of broadcasting "original news, opinion and debate", with a mix of news coverage and opinion-based content. GB News is described as right-leaning on political issues.[2][3][4]

GB News is owned by All Perspectives Ltd, which is a holding company, headquartered in London. As of August 2022, All Perspectives Ltd is controlled by three significant shareholders, all of whom work for Christopher Chandler's Dubai-based investment firm Legatum.[5][6] The CEO of GB News is Angelos Frangopoulos,[7][8] who formerly ran Sky News Australia.

The channel's first chairman was Andrew Neil, who left the BBC in 2020 to set up GB News and present a prime-time evening programme. However, he presented only nine shows and resigned from his roles at the channel on 13 September 2021,[9] three months after its official launch. Other hosts of shows on the channel include Colin Brazier, Alastair Stewart, Dan Wootton, Nigel Farage, Eamonn Holmes, Neil Oliver, Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce. Ofcom have found the channel to have breached standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation.[10]

History

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of GB News.

Foundation

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.[11][12] GB News was founded by Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider, two executives associated with the chairman of Liberty Global, John C. Malone.[12] 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.[6]

 
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,[13] 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.[14] 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".[15]

In December 2020, Paul Marshall, a hedge-fund manager, was in talks to invest £10 million into GB News.[16] 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., whose stake in the company was bought out by the other backers in August 2022 as part of an additional capital injection of £60 million.[17][6]

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".[17] Since then, CEO Angelos Frangopoulos reported that the channel had employed over 200 journalists.[18]

The recruitment drive began on 25 January 2021.[19] The first presenters and journalists announced in the recruitment drive were Dan Wootton,[20] Colin Brazier,[21] Darren McCaffrey, Tom Harwood,[21] Michelle Dewberry,[22] Inaya Folarin Iman[23] and Alex Phillips.[24] Following Piers Morgan's departure from Good Morning Britain on 9 March,[25] Neil expressed interest in Morgan joining GB News instead.[26] However, 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".[27] Later staff announced as joining the channel prior to its launch were Liam Halligan,[28] Andrew Doyle,[29] Rosie Wright,[30] Simon McCoy,[31] Kirsty Gallacher,[32] Alastair Stewart,[33] Neil Oliver,[34] Gloria De Piero,[35] Mercy Muroki[36] and Isabel Webster.[37]

For the period ending 31 May 2021 All Perspectives Ltd made a loss of £2.7 million.[38]

Launch

GB News commenced broadcasting at 20:00 BST on 13 June 2021.[39][40] Neil launched the channel by saying "We are proud to be British – the clue is in the name",[41] and after the opening night was said to be "jubilant" that his programme had "out-rated Sky News and BBC News Channel combined".[42]

 
Nigel Farage, former leader of the UKIP and Brexit political parties, 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.[43][44][45]

Neil took a break from presenting on the channel on 24 June, less than two weeks after its launch.[46]

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.[47] Senior executive producer Gill Penlington, formerly of CNN, ITV and Sky News, also left the channel in early July.[47] On 17 July it was announced that Nigel Farage, already a contributing presenter, would host Farage, a prime-time evening show, from 19 July.[48][49] Later that month, Mark Dolan joined the channel.[50] The following month, Talkradio's Patrick Christys joined to present To the Point on weekday mornings alongside Mercy Muroki. The programme replaced Brazier & Muroki.[51]

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.[52] The following month, political journalist Isabel Oakeshott joined to host a weekly show.[53]

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.[54] On 13 September he announced he was stepping down as chairman and would no longer be presenting on the channel.[55][56] 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.[57] Neil was replaced as a presenter by Colin Brazier in what The Telegraph described as a "fight back by swinging to the right".[58] Neil had been on a contract worth £4 million and included stress among the reasons for departing GB News.[59] In November 2021, Neil called his decision to lead the channel the "single biggest mistake" of his career, adding "The mistake was that I put my face on the tin and yet I quickly discovered that I really had no say over what was going into that tin".[60]

Post Andrew Neil era

 
Conservative MP 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.[61]

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.[62][63]

Camilla Tominey, Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce were announced as new presenters in August 2022.[6] 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 was put up for sale by new media group Warner Bros Discovery.[64][65][66][67]

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. Shows removed from the schedule were The Briefing: Lunchtime with Gloria De Piero, On The Money presented by Liam Halligan, We Need To Talk About presented by Alex Phillips, The Briefing: PM with Darren McCaffrey presented by Darren McCaffrey, and Brazier presented by Colin Brazier. De Piero presented a new lunchtime show with Mark Longhurst, and Patrick Christys was moved to an afternoon slot.

The channel presented its first ever overnight coverage, following the Death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022.[citation needed] In the days following the Queen's death, 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.[68]

In September 2022, novelist and former Head of Daytime at ITV and Channel 4 Helen Warner was appointed Head of Television at GB News.[69] Warner left the channel four months later, in January 2023.[70]

In October 2022, it was announced that actor and comedian John Cleese would be presenting his own show on GB News in the new year.[71]

Following the cancellation of the weekday show To the Point, in November 2022 Beverley Turner began hosting her own GB News show Bev Turner Today. She had already been a stand-in presenter on the channel.[72]

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.[73] ACOBA were notified of Rees-Mogg's appointment and made clear that his role with the channel is subject to a number of conditions.[74] A fifth Conservative MP, Lee Anderson, was announce to be joining the channel's hosting lineup in March.[75]

Ofcom have found the channel to have breached standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation.[10] During GB News' first year on air, their financial year ending May 2022, the company made a loss of £30.7 million.[76]

Transmission

Television

 
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,[77] and it has studios at The Point building in the Paddington Basin area of the city.[78][79] Later, the channel also began to broadcast from a studio on Albert Embankment with views towards Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. GB News employs around 120 journalists.[80] In 2023 GB News confirmed that they were expanding to another location in Westminster.[81]

GB News is transmitted on digital terrestrial television in standard-definition and from the Astra 2F satellite in high-definition.[82][83] The transmissions are available on the Freeview, YouView,[84] Freesat (Channel 216 HD),[85] Sky and Virgin Media platforms.[86] The channel is also available live on the GB News iOS and Android application.[87] Red Bee Media has provided playout services for GB News since the channel's launch.[88]

In March 2023 GB News changed their domain name from a .uk to a .com address in an attempt to attract foreign readers.[89]

Radio

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.[90][91] The radio station is an audio simulcast of the televised channel, rather than a separate production, and started test transmissions in December 2021.[90] Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster were the first to be heard on the simulcast when their television breakfast show started on 4 January 2022.[92][93][94]

As of December 2022, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 306,000, according to RAJAR.[95]

Programming

Neil stated in January 2021 that the channel would be "a fresh approach to news in Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland".[96][15] The channel plans to air 6,500 hours of "original news, opinion and debate" per year and it has hired 120 journalists.[97][21][15] 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".[98] He said that it would aim to offer programming that would become "an appointment to view".[99] 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.[100] Instead of providing rolling news, the channel would be a mix of news, analysis, opinion and debate.[21]

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.[101] Other forecasters also said the channel would be right-leaning,[102][103][104][105][106] and it was predicted by the Financial Times,[107] The Guardian and City A.M. that it would be similar to Fox News.[99][12] 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".[108] 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."[109] BBC media editor Amol Rajan said that "it is not the first channel to be set up in Britain with a strong worldview ... But GB News is the first to be set up with an explicit political leaning".[20] Rajan also stated that "the validity of [the Fox News] comparison is limited".[20] GB News has not explicitly indicated a political allegiance, and UK news broadcasters are required by Ofcom to maintain "due impartiality".[110][21]

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".[111][112] The channel's breakfast show, The Great British Breakfast, initially had three co-anchors, in a similar style to Fox News' Fox & Friends,[32] 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.[29]

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.[113][114]

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".[115]

GB News also produces comedy shows such as a weekly topical comedy panel show titled Ministry of Offence,[116][117] and a comedic newspaper review show Headliners.[118]

Reception

The channel launched to a mixed reception.[119][120] 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."[119][121] 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'."[122]

Advertiser response

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.[123]

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.[124][125][126] The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, criticised Stop Funding Hate and what he described as "a vocal Twitter minority" for calling for the advertising boycott.[127][128]

Ratings and public response

336,000 viewers tuned in to see the launch of GB News.[129] The launch soon became the subject of ridicule due to the perceived poor production quality of the channel and frequent technical issues.[130] The channel also became subject to a number of pranks, including prank calls and gag names such as "GBeebies", a pun on the preschool channel CBeebies.[131][132][133]

Viewership fell following the launch of the channel.[134][135][136] A month after its launch, its daily viewership of just over 1 million trailed Sky News' 2.5 to 3 million viewers.[137] 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.[138] GB News suspended the presenter, describing the event as an "unacceptable breach of our standards";[139][140] Harri later confirmed that he had permanently left the channel.[141] The first episode of Nigel Farage's show on 19 July attracted an average audience of 100,000.[142]

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."[143]

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."[144] A Daily Telegraph report in December 2021 stated that Farage's nightly programme regularly gets around 150,000 viewers.[145] 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.[146]

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.[147] 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).[148] Subsequently, between July and September 2022, GB News Radio's weekly audience grew by 50%, to 415,000.[149] The Times and Press Gazette reported that it was the only news radio channel to rise during this period.[150][151]

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, the 17th most loved media brand among baby boomers, and the 61st most loved media brand in the UK overall.[152]

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%)'.[153]  

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.[154] PinkNews and The Argus reported that social media users criticised a satirical parody of the BBC Match of the Day programme, aired on the channel on 11 March 2023, as being homophobic because it included a line saying Gary Lineker must "quite like Brighton because it’s full of rainbow flags and woke people".[155][156]

Ofcom investigations

 
At least one 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.[157] As of August 2022 more than 2,300 complaints about GB News programmes have been lodged with Ofcom since its launch.[157]

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.[158] 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".[159]

Furthermore, Ofcom have publicly commented on and clarified rules on politicians presenting programmes following the influx of politicians to both TalkTV and GB News.[160]

As of March 2023 Ofcom have found GB News to have breached their licence on two separate occasions, with additional investigations still pending.

Breaches of code

On 7 November 2022, Ofcom announced its first finding against GB News, concluding that the channel breached its radio license 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 out the whole list aloud, instead advising listeners on its radio simulcast that it was available on social media. All 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.[161]

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.[10] In February 2023, Steyn revealed on his website that his GB News programme had been cancelled and that the channel gave him an offer to which he 'had to refuse' because it would have ended his right to free-speech on air.[162][163] This was after Steyn had two heart attacks which led to his programme being paused and taken over by GB News presenter Patrick Christys until the slot was finally replaced by Laurence Fox's programme.

Other investigations

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.[157] Farage's 23 August 2021 broadcast was investigated for "offensive language" but was later cleared by the regulator.[157]

As of March 2023 Ofcom are currently investigating Mark Steyn for a further potential breach of standards on 4 October 2022.[164] The investigation into Steyn's programme on 4 October 2022 relates to comments by Naomi Wolf, a figure who has previously been banned from Twitter for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.[157]

On-air staff

Former on air staff

See also

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A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view Please discuss further on the talk page August 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message GB News is a British free to air television and radio channel The channel is available on Freeview Freesat Sky YouView Virgin Media and via the internet Since 4 January 2022 an audio simulcast of the station is available on DAB radio GB NewsTypeTelevision news channelCountryUnited KingdomBroadcast areaUnited KingdomIrelandHeadquartersLondon England UKProgrammingLanguage s EnglishOwnershipOwnerAll Perspectives Ltd Key peopleAngelos Frangopoulos CEO HistoryLaunched13 June 2021 21 months ago 2021 06 13 FounderAndrew ColeMark SchneiderLinksWebsitewww wbr gbnews wbr comAvailabilityTerrestrialFreeviewChannel 236 SD Streaming mediagbnews comLive streamYouTubeLive streamAnnounced in September 2020 and launched in June 2021 from studios at Paddington Basin London the channel became Britain s first television news start up for more than 30 years since the launch of Sky News in 1989 1 It was set up with the aim of broadcasting original news opinion and debate with a mix of news coverage and opinion based content GB News is described as right leaning on political issues 2 3 4 GB News is owned by All Perspectives Ltd which is a holding company headquartered in London As of August 2022 update All Perspectives Ltd is controlled by three significant shareholders all of whom work for Christopher Chandler s Dubai based investment firm Legatum 5 6 The CEO of GB News is Angelos Frangopoulos 7 8 who formerly ran Sky News Australia The channel s first chairman was Andrew Neil who left the BBC in 2020 to set up GB News and present a prime time evening programme However he presented only nine shows and resigned from his roles at the channel on 13 September 2021 9 three months after its official launch Other hosts of shows on the channel include Colin Brazier Alastair Stewart Dan Wootton Nigel Farage Eamonn Holmes Neil Oliver Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce Ofcom have found the channel to have breached standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 Foundation 1 2 Launch 1 3 Post Andrew Neil era 2 Transmission 2 1 Television 2 2 Radio 3 Programming 4 Reception 4 1 Advertiser response 4 2 Ratings and public response 5 Ofcom investigations 5 1 Breaches of code 5 2 Other investigations 6 On air staff 7 Former on air staff 8 See also 9 References 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 11 12 GB News was founded by Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider two executives associated with the chairman of Liberty Global John C Malone 12 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 6 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 13 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 14 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 15 In December 2020 Paul Marshall a hedge fund manager was in talks to invest 10 million into GB News 16 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 whose stake in the company was bought out by the other backers in August 2022 as part of an additional capital injection of 60 million 17 6 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 17 Since then CEO Angelos Frangopoulos reported that the channel had employed over 200 journalists 18 The recruitment drive began on 25 January 2021 19 The first presenters and journalists announced in the recruitment drive were Dan Wootton 20 Colin Brazier 21 Darren McCaffrey Tom Harwood 21 Michelle Dewberry 22 Inaya Folarin Iman 23 and Alex Phillips 24 Following Piers Morgan s departure from Good Morning Britain on 9 March 25 Neil expressed interest in Morgan joining GB News instead 26 However 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 27 Later staff announced as joining the channel prior to its launch were Liam Halligan 28 Andrew Doyle 29 Rosie Wright 30 Simon McCoy 31 Kirsty Gallacher 32 Alastair Stewart 33 Neil Oliver 34 Gloria De Piero 35 Mercy Muroki 36 and Isabel Webster 37 For the period ending 31 May 2021 All Perspectives Ltd made a loss of 2 7 million 38 Launch Edit GB News commenced broadcasting at 20 00 BST on 13 June 2021 39 40 Neil launched the channel by saying We are proud to be British the clue is in the name 41 and after the opening night was said to be jubilant that his programme had out rated Sky News and BBC News Channel combined 42 Nigel Farage former leader of the UKIP and Brexit political parties 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 43 44 45 Neil took a break from presenting on the channel on 24 June less than two weeks after its launch 46 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 47 Senior executive producer Gill Penlington formerly of CNN ITV and Sky News also left the channel in early July 47 On 17 July it was announced that Nigel Farage already a contributing presenter would host Farage a prime time evening show from 19 July 48 49 Later that month Mark Dolan joined the channel 50 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 51 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 52 The following month political journalist Isabel Oakeshott joined to host a weekly show 53 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 54 On 13 September he announced he was stepping down as chairman and would no longer be presenting on the channel 55 56 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 57 Neil was replaced as a presenter by Colin Brazier in what The Telegraph described as a fight back by swinging to the right 58 Neil had been on a contract worth 4 million and included stress among the reasons for departing GB News 59 In November 2021 Neil called his decision to lead the channel the single biggest mistake of his career adding The mistake was that I put my face on the tin and yet I quickly discovered that I really had no say over what was going into that tin 60 Post Andrew Neil era Edit Conservative MP 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 61 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 62 63 Camilla Tominey Michael Portillo and Andrew Pierce were announced as new presenters in August 2022 6 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 was put up for sale by new media group Warner Bros Discovery 64 65 66 67 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 Shows removed from the schedule were The Briefing Lunchtime with Gloria De Piero On The Money presented by Liam Halligan We Need To Talk About presented by Alex Phillips The Briefing PM with Darren McCaffrey presented by Darren McCaffrey and Brazier presented by Colin Brazier De Piero presented a new lunchtime show with Mark Longhurst and Patrick Christys was moved to an afternoon slot The channel presented its first ever overnight coverage following the Death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022 citation needed In the days following the Queen s death 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 68 In September 2022 novelist and former Head of Daytime at ITV and Channel 4 Helen Warner was appointed Head of Television at GB News 69 Warner left the channel four months later in January 2023 70 In October 2022 it was announced that actor and comedian John Cleese would be presenting his own show on GB News in the new year 71 Following the cancellation of the weekday show To the Point in November 2022 Beverley Turner began hosting her own GB News show Bev Turner Today She had already been a stand in presenter on the channel 72 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 73 ACOBA were notified of Rees Mogg s appointment and made clear that his role with the channel is subject to a number of conditions 74 A fifth Conservative MP Lee Anderson was announce to be joining the channel s hosting lineup in March 75 Ofcom have found the channel to have breached standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation 10 During GB News first year on air their financial year ending May 2022 the company made a loss of 30 7 million 76 Transmission EditTelevision 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 77 and it has studios at The Point building in the Paddington Basin area of the city 78 79 Later the channel also began to broadcast from a studio on Albert Embankment with views towards Westminster and the Houses of Parliament GB News employs around 120 journalists 80 In 2023 GB News confirmed that they were expanding to another location in Westminster 81 GB News is transmitted on digital terrestrial television in standard definition and from the Astra 2F satellite in high definition 82 83 The transmissions are available on the Freeview YouView 84 Freesat Channel 216 HD 85 Sky and Virgin Media platforms 86 The channel is also available live on the GB News iOS and Android application 87 Red Bee Media has provided playout services for GB News since the channel s launch 88 In March 2023 GB News changed their domain name from a uk to a com address in an attempt to attract foreign readers 89 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 90 91 The radio station is an audio simulcast of the televised channel rather than a separate production and started test transmissions in December 2021 90 Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster were the first to be heard on the simulcast when their television breakfast show started on 4 January 2022 92 93 94 As of December 2022 the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 306 000 according to RAJAR 95 Programming EditNeil stated in January 2021 that the channel would be a fresh approach to news in Britain Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland 96 15 The channel plans to air 6 500 hours of original news opinion and debate per year and it has hired 120 journalists 97 21 15 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 98 He said that it would aim to offer programming that would become an appointment to view 99 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 100 Instead of providing rolling news the channel would be a mix of news analysis opinion and debate 21 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 101 Other forecasters also said the channel would be right leaning 102 103 104 105 106 and it was predicted by the Financial Times 107 The Guardian and City A M that it would be similar to Fox News 99 12 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 108 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 109 BBC media editor Amol Rajan said that it is not the first channel to be set up in Britain with a strong worldview But GB News is the first to be set up with an explicit political leaning 20 Rajan also stated that the validity of the Fox News comparison is limited 20 GB News has not explicitly indicated a political allegiance and UK news broadcasters are required by Ofcom to maintain due impartiality 110 21 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 111 112 The channel s breakfast show The Great British Breakfast initially had three co anchors in a similar style to Fox News Fox amp Friends 32 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 29 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 113 114 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 115 GB News also produces comedy shows such as a weekly topical comedy panel show titled Ministry of Offence 116 117 and a comedic newspaper review show Headliners 118 Reception EditThe channel launched to a mixed reception 119 120 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 119 121 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 122 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 123 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 124 125 126 The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden criticised Stop Funding Hate and what he described as a vocal Twitter minority for calling for the advertising boycott 127 128 Ratings and public response Edit 336 000 viewers tuned in to see the launch of GB News 129 The launch soon became the subject of ridicule due to the perceived poor production quality of the channel and frequent technical issues 130 The channel also became subject to a number of pranks including prank calls and gag names such as GBeebies a pun on the preschool channel CBeebies 131 132 133 Viewership fell following the launch of the channel 134 135 136 A month after its launch its daily viewership of just over 1 million trailed Sky News 2 5 to 3 million viewers 137 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 138 GB News suspended the presenter describing the event as an unacceptable breach of our standards 139 140 Harri later confirmed that he had permanently left the channel 141 The first episode of Nigel Farage s show on 19 July attracted an average audience of 100 000 142 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 143 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 30 000 144 A Daily Telegraph report in December 2021 stated that Farage s nightly programme regularly gets around 150 000 viewers 145 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 146 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 147 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 148 Subsequently between July and September 2022 GB News Radio s weekly audience grew by 50 to 415 000 149 The Times and Press Gazette reported that it was the only news radio channel to rise during this period 150 151 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 the 17th most loved media brand among baby boomers and the 61st most loved media brand in the UK overall 152 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 12 153 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 154 PinkNews and The Argus reported that social media users criticised a satirical parody of the BBC Match of the Day programme aired on the channel on 11 March 2023 as being homophobic because it included a line saying Gary Lineker must quite like Brighton because it s full of rainbow flags and woke people 155 156 Ofcom investigations Edit At least one 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 157 As of August 2022 update more than 2 300 complaints about GB News programmes have been lodged with Ofcom since its launch 157 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 158 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 159 Furthermore Ofcom have publicly commented on and clarified rules on politicians presenting programmes following the influx of politicians to both TalkTV and GB News 160 As of March 2023 update Ofcom have found GB News to have breached their licence on two separate occasions with additional investigations still pending Breaches of code Edit On 7 November 2022 Ofcom announced its first finding against GB News concluding that the channel breached its radio license 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 out the whole list aloud instead advising listeners on its radio simulcast that it was available on social media All 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 161 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 10 In February 2023 Steyn revealed on his website that his GB News programme had been cancelled and that the channel gave him an offer to which he had to refuse because it would have ended his right to free speech on air 162 163 This was after Steyn had two heart attacks which led to his programme being paused and taken over by GB News presenter Patrick Christys until the slot was finally replaced by Laurence Fox s programme Other investigations Edit 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 157 Farage s 23 August 2021 broadcast was investigated for offensive language but was later cleared by the regulator 157 As of March 2023 update Ofcom are currently investigating Mark Steyn for a further potential breach of standards on 4 October 2022 164 The investigation into Steyn s programme on 4 October 2022 relates to comments by Naomi Wolf a figure who has previously been banned from Twitter for spreading anti vaccine misinformation 157 On air staff EditNana Akua John Cleese Martin Daubney stand in presenter Philip Davies Gloria De Piero Michelle Dewberry Anne Diamond Stephen Dixon Mark Dolan Andrew Doyle Simon Evans Nigel Farage Arlene Foster Laurence Fox Neil Fox stand in presenter Darren Grimes Liam Halligan Tom Harwood Eamonn Holmes Mark Longhurst Esther McVey Neil Oliver Andrew Pierce Michael Portillo Jacob Rees Mogg Angela Rippon stand in presenter Calvin Robinson Camilla Tominey Beverley Turner Isabel Webster Dan WoottonFormer on air staff EditAndrew Neil Guto Harri Colin Brazier Alex Phillips Simon McCoy Mercy Muroki Kirsty Gallacher Dominic Frisby Dehenna Davison Isabel Oakeshott Inaya Folarin Iman Alastair Stewart retired as a regular presenter 165 Mark Steyn Tonia Buxton Caroline 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