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 time slot with 115 per cent more listeners than seven-year-old TALKRadio and double the audience of LBC News UK.
It is 61 per cent bigger than Times Radio.
GB News Radio dominated the time slot with 115 per cent more listeners than seven-year-old TALKRadio and double the audience of LBC News UK
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The trend 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 per cent) and on smart speakers (up 90.4 per cent).
GB News is now well established as a much bigger media brand than the Murdoch-owned Talk with an almost 30 per cent 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 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.”
It comes as BBC Radio 2 has lost one million listeners following Ken Bruce's departure earlier this year which sparked backlash after several older presenters were replaced with younger DJs.
BBC Radio 2 has lost one million listeners following Ken Bruce's departure earlier this year which sparked backlash after several older presenters were replaced with younger DJs
PAThe 72-year-old presenter, who best known for presenting his mid-morning BBC Radio 2 show from 1986 to 1990 and again from 1992 to 2023, signed off from the show in March this year.
According to RAJAR, in the wake of his departure, the station dropped from 14.5 million listeners in the first three months of 2023.
Zoe Ball also dropped by 533,000 listeners compared with the previous quarter, bringing her audience down to 6.7 million.
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