After weeks of wrangling between the rival leadership teams a televised “leadership event” has finally been organised. GB News will host the debate between the final two candidates on October 17th.
“The two MPs will debate their ideas for Britain and the future of their party with Conservative members live on The People’s Channel.”
This is the first to be added to the books. Always room for more…
GB News bosses must think Nigel Farage is worth every penny of the reported million quid they pay him, his box office appeal enabled them to beat Talk TV into the ground and off the air – despite Piers Morgan’s braggodicous bravado. Nigel keeps the upstart channel competitive. Given no TV licence fee taxpayers’ money is being squandered, what’s the problem? Nigel is being paid a market rate for his talent.
Could it be that rival media personalities are despairingly comparing their pay? The bland auto-cuties on a mere quarter or a third of a million quid must be livid. We love to see it!
New RAJAR figures for the second quarter of the year make happy reading for GB News. Their upwards trajectory shows no sign of stopping…
GB News Radio, which is just a simulcast of GB News TV, has now overtaken Times Radio on weekly reach for the first time. GB’s year-on-year growth has reached a whopping 63% and is 14% higher than last quarter…
Last quarter GB News overtook LBC London and is continuing full steam ahead. TalkRadio, the last surviving linear branch of YouTube-ified TalkTV, sees its reach go down 9% from last quarter and 5% from last year. You either have momentum, or you don’t..
Nigel Farage has just won News Presenter of the Year at the TRIC Awards for a second year in a row, beating the likes of Eamonn Holmes, Susanna Reid, and Matt Chorley. Commiserations to Chorley, who didn’t take the news too well, posting on X: “ffs”. Like last year, Farage was hit with boos and jeers from the woke elite crowd. Nigel responded in his usual fashion:
“Thank you! It’s a bit like a wrestling event isn’t it! Those that boo clearly don’t get what a competition is.”
Another fine example of the gulf between the Twitterati and everyone else. Farage won the public vote, yet the people sipping champagne in the room as he received the award couldn’t stand it. The same reaction will no doubt be replicated if Nigel does win in Clacton next week. Nigel noted that GB News “is here to stay”, and considering GBN snagged a triple win this year with GB News Breakfast and Camilla Tominey winning best interview, he might be right. Congratulations Nigel…
