Last week Guido reported that GB News had beaten the BBC and Sky News in viewing figures for three days in a row. It’s not stopping…
According to new BARB figures last week GB beat Sky on a Sunday for the first ever time with 63,600 to Sky’s 61,200. That’s before beating both them and the BBC into the working week at around 80,000…
This performance is no doubt thanks to Guido alumnus Adam Cherry taking his first presenting shift on the channel this morning. The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee released its report this week into the “Future of News,” in which it concluded that the UK broadcasting market will “only thrive if there is healthy competition,” noting that “new entrants like GB News provide an alternative to the public service broadcasters.” Lords also raised an eyebrow at Ofcom…
“Ofcom’s senior leadership argued that its approach to impartiality had been very clear. We struggled to reconcile this with the evidence. Ofcom’s approach has sparked accusations of a two-tier system on the one hand, and of overreaction on the other.”
Now that GB News is consistently outperforming established broadcast rivals the regulator may rethink its two-tier approach to the three-year-old channel. Chance would be a fine thing…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”
