GB News Radio joins Nation Player

GB News Radio recorded its highest-ever audience of over 600,000 weekly listeners in the recently published Q3 2024 RAJAR results.

GB News CEO Angelos Frangopoulos said: “GB News is committed to being as widely available as possible so that our viewers and listeners can easily find their favourite news channel.

“We look forward to working with Nation Player as we continue to build the GB News Radio audience.”

Nation Player Founder Jason Bryant said: “We are delighted to welcome GB News Radio to our platform.

“We have successfully attracted the UK’s largest independent stations alongside a host of locally focussed community operators.

“We are on a mission to become the leading commercial audio app and to monetise audiences for our partners.”

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According to the latest official RAJAR ratings, released last week, GB News Radio grew by a massive 54 per cent in the last 12 months - and has surged past Talk Radio for the first time.

Based on quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year comparisons, it means the People’s Channel is now Britain’s fastest-growing radio brand in the UK.

Talk Radio has an audience of 576,000, Times Radio has 557,000 listeners, and LBC News (London) has 434,000.

Total listening hours for GB News Radio are also up by 30 per cent over the last 12 months to the highest level ever and also up by 19 per cent compared with the previous quarter.

In contrast, Talk saw audiences decline by 17 per cent year-on-year overall, driven by daytime losses, with breakfast listeners down by 15 per cent and Julia Hartley-Brewer dropping 23 per cent.

Core programming continues to show strong growth too, with average listening hours now ahead of established music stations such as KISS and Magic. The RAJAR data shows GB News Radio growing across all times of the day.

The Nation Player App is free to download from the Apple App and Google Play stores.