Around 50 asylum seekers have arrived on the Bibby Stockholm barge this afternoon. The government expects about 500 to reside here over the comings months. Not by the end of the week, as Sarah Dines claimed this morning…
Sophy Ridge is getting her weekends back after six years of fronting Sky News‘ Sunday morning politics coverage. This week’s Ridge on Sunday will be the last, with Sophy presenting a new nightly show at 7p.m. from September. Guido hears Trevor Phillips will be taking over the Sunday show, having covered for Ridge for several months last year. Congratulations both…
After being named the nation’s most loved news brand in a poll by Savanta, GB News has gone from strength to strength. Yesterday, the channel saw bumper ratings, beating out both Sky News and the BBC. It goes without saying, Talk TV wasn’t even in the running…
GB News beat Sky News for five and a half hours and it beat the BBC’s News channel for 7 hours and 15 minutes. Of course, it also beat Talk TV across the whole 24-hour period. Dan Wootton claims the top spot amongst GB News presenters, raking in 93,800 views in prime time, whilst Nigel Farage managed a respectable 83,100. Both Nigel and Dan beat out both the BBC and Sky News across individual periods. Meanwhile, Talk TV registered 0 viewers in three separate time slots.
Tom Newton Dunn’s graveyard shift managed a meagre 0.04% audience share, ending on just 200 viewers. Jacob Rees-Mogg, again, beat out Piers Morgan by over 10,000 more viewers.
Guido congratulates Piers for his ratings on TalkTV last night, of which he tweeted he “hammered” Sky News and GB News for his hour. Remember: linear TV ratings apparently don’t matter when Piers loses. When he wins, he’s the first to tweet about them. Last night was his first celebratory post in a while…
While he did beat Jacob Rees-Mogg in the competing slot, with an average of 56,000 viewers compared to Jacob’s 44,000, he was resoundingly beaten by both Nigel Farage and Dan Wootton on either side of his hour. Farage got 73,000, and Wootton got 124,000. Did TalkTV hammer the rival channels? Not really, it was crushed in the vice between Farage and Wootton…
