SW1 tuned into GB News last night for coverage of its Tory leadership event: Decision Time: The Race to Lead. Chris Hope compèred with questions from the audience aimed at the candidates. Badenoch won the room by the end…
Guido has had sight of the BARB figures for the night. At its peak GB News reached 152,600 viewers for its leadership event – remaining well above 100,000 throughout the two hours of coverage. Sky News had 80,600 and the BBC 70,400 concurrently. GB beat its two rivals’ combined figures…
GB has been leading broadcast coverage of the Tory leadership race. Hosting the only quasi-debate that the leadership camps have managed to agree to so far is a win…
New Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) figures for Q4 2023, now released, make for interesting reading. GB Radio is up 32,000 listeners to 430,000. TalkRadio is also up as BBC listening figures stagnate and the BBC’s local radio stations see a whopping 10% decline from Q3 to Q4. GB News’ combined TV and radio output still comfortably beats TalkTV’s…
Over at LBC Nick Ferrari has overtaken James O’Brien’s listening figures and to take the throne at the station, gaining 45,000 listeners in the last quarter. That’s 35,000 ahead of O’Brien, who is steadily losing listeners…
According to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba, last night’s Match of the Day was watched by 2.58 million TV viewers on BBC One. Up nearly half a million on last Saturday’s figure of 2.09 million according to the BARB overnights. This was the show’s biggest audience this year.
An impressive audience increase of 23.4% for the new format platitude and cliché free version of Match of the Day. Political fans of Lineker are claiming that this it is due to rubber-necking, Guido’s pretty certain that they would have been making a very different claim if the #BoycottMOTD campaign had succeeded. Football without punditry could be the future. Would save TV licence fee payers millions…
As recently as the end of March official ratings agency BARB’s figures show that All Out Politics was getting over quarter of a million viewers. This Wednesday the show got less than 60,000 viewers… this explains much.
