GB News Radio is celebrating its best-ever audience results, securing record-breaking annual growth unmatched by any other national radio station or network.
Latest RAJAR results show GB News Radio’s reach was up by 34% year-on-year to 731,000 listeners, and up 8% quarter-on-quarter.
That is nearly three times greater than Talk’s 11.5% growth, and almost five times higher than Times Radio, which grew by 7%.
The growth of GB News Radio was even more pronounced in terms of hours listened, with people now tuning in for 5.4 million hours a week, up by 78% compared with a year ago, and 24% ahead of the previous quarter.
That is a long way ahead of LBC, which fell by 1% in comparison, and BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 4, which both grew by 1%.
GB News Radio’s weekly audience of 731,000 is now way ahead of Talk with 543,000 listeners and Times Radio with 660,000.
The performance of individual shows was spectacular, with the station’s massive growth driven by breakfast to late afternoon during the week and from breakfast to early afternoon at the weekends.
Nearly all of its programmes recorded triple-digit and double-digit audience growth year-on-year. And GB News’ weekday Breakfast show is now the fastest-growing show in news-talk radio.
Key highlights include (year-on-year rises):
The Camilla Tominey Show (Sundays): up 155%.
Alex Armstrong Tonight Late Edition (Saturdays): up 155%.
Alex Armstrong Tonight (Sundays): up 147%.
Lee Anderson’s Real World (Fridays): up 131%.
Farage (Mon-Thurs): up 117%.
Nana Akua (Sundays): up 105%.
State of the Nation with Jacob Rees-Mogg: up 82%.
Sunday with Michael Portillo: up 78%.
The Weekend (Saturdays): up 74%.
Patrick Christys’ Late Edition: up 71%.
Breakfast (weekdays): up 70%.
Britain’s Newsroom: up 66%.
Good Afternoon Britain: up 63%.
Dewbs and Co: up 59%.
Patrick Christys’ Tonight: up 52%.
Martin Daubney: up 48%.
The biggest audience increases have come from adults aged 15-34, up 78% year-on-year, and adults aged 45-54, up 57% year-on-year.
Listening by main shoppers, who now account for 91% of total listening, increased by 86% year-on-year, while ABC1 listening is up by 70% compared with the same period last year.
Commenting on the latest figures, GB News’ Head of Programming and Talent, Ben Briscoe, said: “These record-breaking results underline the staggering and continued growth of GB News Radio.
“These outstanding results show that GB News continues to pull further ahead of the competition: clear proof of the quality of our journalism and how deeply our coverage resonates with our loyal audience.
“We look forward to welcoming many new viewers and listeners in the months ahead. I’d also like to thank our reporters, producers and presenters whose hard work powers our growth and keeps our audience tuning in, in ever greater numbers.”
The success of GB News Radio is mirrored by its TV ratings performance. The latest audience data from BARB earlier this month revealed that the People’s Channel has marked a full year as Britain’s number one news channel.
BARB data for July shows GB News secured 81,600 average views (1.44% audience share), which is 11% higher than the BBC News Channel’s 73,500 average views (1.29% audience share). Sky News was a distant third on 68,900 (1.21% audience share), trailing 18.4% behind GB News.
Over the twelve-month period from August 2025 to July 2026, GB News averaged around 90,900 views (1.51% share), which puts it 9.7% ahead of the BBC News Channel’s 82,400 (1.37% share) and 25% ahead of Sky News’ 72,300 (1.21% share).
GB News has won a string of awards for its coverage this year. In July, it was named Best News Programme of the Year at the National Reality TV Awards.
In June, GB News claimed the TRIC Award for Best News Programme for the fourth year running, beating BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain and ITV Evening News at the 2026 Television and Radio Industries Club Awards at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.
In April, the channel was named Start-Up of the Year at the Campaign Media Company of the Year Awards 2026, in recognition of its rapid growth and impact on the UK media landscape.
