GB News
British television news channel
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| March 14 2025 | Ofcom removes three breach of broadcasting code conditions against GB News following a successful High Court ruling at the end of February, which was in the channel's favor. |
| February 28 2025 | The High Court rules that Ofcom acted unlawfully in its rulings over two shows hosted by Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News in 2023, finding that the shows breached broadcasting code impartiality guidelines. This marks the first instance of Ofcom losing such a legal challenge. |
| February 12 2025 | Ofcom begins carefully assessing 1,227 complaints related to Josh Howie's comments on GB News's Headliners program, which concerned the LGBT community. The comments were originally made on an edition from 22 January. |
| 2024 | No specific events were detailed in the provided timeline section for the year 2024. |
| 2024 | A report by the Centre for Media Monitoring alleged that GB News was responsible for half of all British news broadcast coverage about Muslims over a two-year period, with much of the coverage being negative. |
| 2024 | Nigel Farage stands as leader of Reform UK in the United Kingdom general election and is elected as Member of Parliament for Clacton. |
| December 29 2024 | Conservative Party allies of Kemi Badenoch reject claims that she requested GB News to reduce Nigel Farage's airtime on the channel. |
| December 19 2024 | GB News unveils a new 2025 schedule, announcing departures of Mark Dolan, Isabel Webster, and Andrew Doyle. New programming includes Ben Leo presenting weekend shows and Miriam Cates hosting 'Dewbs & Co' bi-weekly. Ellie Costello will co-present breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Stephen Dixon. |
| December 4 2024 | Research from Barb Audiences reveals GB News surpassed Sky News in viewing figures for the first time in November, with an average audience of 70,430 over a 20-hour period compared to Sky News's 67,670. |
| November 10 2024 | GB News goes off-air during the Remembrance Sunday two-minute silence at 11am, with viewers experiencing a test card and a sustained loud bleeping sound, disrupting the traditional moment of reflection. |
| October 31 2024 | GB News is fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaching impartiality rules during a programme featuring former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. |
| October 29 2024 | Former GB News presenter Mark Steyn is ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs after losing a case against Ofcom, which he claimed had 'killed' his career through two rulings about COVID-19 content in his shows during 2022. |
| October 17 2024 | Conservative Party leadership candidates Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch participate in a leadership debate on GB News, with Badenoch declining other debate invitations. |
| September 10 2024 | Hedge fund manager and GB News investor Paul Marshall agrees to purchase The Spectator magazine for £100 million. |
| September 9 2024 | Ofcom discontinues five impartiality investigations into GB News's 'Don't Kill Cash' campaign after the channel had previously been reprimanded over the campaign. |
| August 29 2024 | Newsreader Ray Addison announces his departure from GB News and reads his final news bulletin for the channel. |
| July 16 2024 | Radio Today reports that GB News Radio's sports bulletins are now being powered by Artificial Intelligence, with a virtual newsreader providing the voiceover. |
| July 11 2024 | GB News announces Nigel Farage's return to his show after being elected to Parliament, with him set to present on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays starting 16 July. |
| July 2 2024 | Eamonn Holmes is forced to leave his GB News breakfast show midway through the programme due to ill health. |
| May 20 2024 | Ofcom concluded its investigation into a controversial Peoples Forum with Rishi Sunak, finding a serious and repeated failure to preserve due impartiality, potentially leading to statutory sanctions. |
| April 2024 | Neil appeared before a House of Lords committee, criticizing GB News for potentially becoming an outlet for conspiracy theories and drifting towards a Fox News-like style. |
| April 2024 | GB News begins its first major redundancy exercise, planning to remove 40 roles. |
| April 19 2024 | GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos announces 40 redundancies at the channel following previous significant financial losses. |
| April 11 2024 | Sky News reports that hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall will step down from the board of All Perspectives Ltd, the parent company of GB News, amid a major restructuring process. |
| April 4 2024 | GB News hires Steven Edgington as its first international correspondent, specifically for North America. |
| March 18 2024 | Ofcom ruled that multiple episodes featuring Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and Philip Davies failed to comply with broadcasting rules about politicians acting as news presenters. |
| March 5 2024 | Dan Wootton announces his departure from GB News following the previous day's Ofcom ruling regarding inappropriate comments made during his show. |
| March 4 2024 | Ofcom concludes an investigation into a GB News episode featuring Dan Wootton, finding the programme breached regulations due to Laurence Fox's comments about journalist Ava Evans. Ofcom expressed significant concerns about the channel's editorial control and requested detailed information about its compliance practices. |
| February 2024 | Ofcom cleared a broadcast by Neil Oliver where COVID-19 vaccines were claimed to be linked to 'turbo cancer', an anti-vax myth. |
| February 24 2024 | Lee Anderson is suspended from the Conservative Party after refusing to apologize for claiming 'Islamists' had 'got control' of London Mayor Sadiq Khan during a GB News show. |
| February 21 2024 | The Metropolitan Police decides to take no further action regarding allegations that Dan Wootton offered to pay colleagues for sexually explicit pictures. |
| February 20 2024 | GB News announces the termination of its radio advertising and sponsorship contract with Bauer Media and plans to launch its own advertising sales operation. |
| February 19 2024 | Ofcom launches an impartiality investigation into GB News's Q&A session with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. |
| February 12 2024 | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears on an hour-long GB News People's Forum, presented by Stephen Dixon, where a selected audience of undecided voters are invited to ask him questions. |
| February 1 2024 | RAJAR figures reveal GB News Radio had an average weekly audience of 430,000 for the final quarter of 2023. |
| January 17 2024 | BARB corrects an error in viewing figures, revealing that GB News' New Year's Eve coverage actually had 33,000 viewers, not the previously claimed one million. |
| January 11 2024 | The Liberal Democrats request an Ofcom investigation into GB News over alleged bias in its coverage of the Post Office scandal, specifically challenging a monologue by Nigel Farage about Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey. |
| January 8 2024 | Ofcom delays the publication of research into politicians presenting news programmes, pending resolution of ongoing investigations into GB News. |
| 2023 | GB News' Breakfast show wins the Multichannel News Programme award at the TRIC Awards, and Nigel Farage wins the News Presenter award, though he was booed during his acceptance speech. |
| 2023 | During coverage of the Gaza war, Nana Akua read out pro-Hamas messages on air, leading to an apology from GB News and a review by counter-terrorism police. |
| 2023 | A YouGov poll revealed GB News was ranked as a trusted news brand by only 12% of respondents, significantly lower than the BBC's 44% trust rating. |
| 2023 | The channel was criticized by broadcaster India Willoughby for 'demonising' transgender people. |
| 2023 | GB News was accused by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism of promoting 'conspiratorial antisemitism or other misinformation', particularly during some of Neil Oliver's broadcasts. |
| December 20 2023 | Ofcom reveals that the Dan Wootton Tonight episode featuring Laurence Fox's comments about journalist Ava Evans was the most complained about TV show of 2023, receiving 8,867 viewer complaints. |
| December 11 2023 | Sky News reports that GB News has requested an additional £30m in capital from its investors. |
| December 6 2023 | Carol Vorderman publicly discloses that she rejected an offer from GB News after leaving BBC Radio Wales over the BBC's new social media guidelines. |
| November 2023 | GB News switched from Astra 2F to Astra 2G satellite, making reception possible across all of Europe. |
| November 2023 | Ownership shares in the channel are distributed to several presenters including Nigel Farage, Arlene Foster, Eamonn Holmes, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Neil Oliver, Camilla Tominey, and Dan Wootton. |
| November 2023 | GB News introduced an online paywall with three membership tiers in response to ongoing advertiser boycotts and substantial financial losses, seeking alternative revenue streams after controversies and regulatory challenges. |
| November 12 2023 | Ofcom chair Michael Grade publicly comments that Ofcom does not want to dictate broadcaster employment, specifically in relation to GB News employing politicians as presenters. |
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