06 Aug GB NEWS IS UK’S NUMBER ONE NEWS RADIO STATION IN PRIME TIME
GB News Radio is the nation’s Number One news station in prime time, according to official RAJAR ratings figures released today.
The channel beat its established news rivals including Times Radio, TALKRadio, and LBC News UK, with an average audience of 17,200 listeners in the key 7pm to 10pm slot.
GB News Radio dominated the timeslot with 115% more listeners than seven-year-old TALKRadio and double the audience of LBC News UK. It is 61% bigger than Times Radio.
The strength was across the week, including Monday-Thursday prime time shows such as Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation, and Dan Wootton Tonight, and continuing into weekends, including Mark Dolan Tonight, and Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation.
GB News Radio, a simulcast of the channel’s television output launched just 18 months ago, maintained a steady weekly average audience of 317,000 listeners in Q2, compared to 318,000 in the previous quarter.
GB News Radio was also the only news station to see growth in listeners accessing it on the internet (up 32%) and on smart speakers (up 90.4%).
The station is now well established as a much bigger brand than the Murdoch-owned Talk with an almost 30% greater total combined average television and radio audience.
Chief Executive Officer Angelos Frangopoulos said: “We’re aiming to be the UK’s Number One news channel by 2028 and these figures show we’re already resolutely achieving that in prime time across the board.
“Online, we have the fastest-growing news website in the country, and on television we are increasingly breaking the duopoly of Sky News and BBC News by winning the ratings at Breakfast and in prime time especially.”
