The YouTube revolution is finally catching up with right-of-centre mainstream British political broadcasters (the left have been there for years). It’s not great news for incumbents with big wage bills…
Former TalkTV presenter Mike Graham is doing good numbers after launching his own independent show on YouTube. This week Graham announced that he was unveiling his own TV channel called UKLive. Viewers will be able to look forward to a show co-presented by Graham and former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie. Mackenzie has been keen to enter the new media space for some time. Guaranteed to be punchy and, crucially, free from Ofcom’s regulatory manacles…
GB News also boasts Mackenzie as a pundit so that will cause some consternation. Still, GBN has plenty to be happy about. Its own YouTube numbers are flying thanks to a massive investment in original content, rather than simply repackaging the live TV output. Guido’s own offering is also on the march, and we’ll be doing much more original video content very soon. Stay tuned – and subscribe to our YouTube channel here…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”