The Great British Breakfast (2021)

Genre

morning show

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This is a morning show that covers current events and news stories. It features discussions and interviews with various hosts.

fast-pacedinformativeconversationalstructuredcurrentneutralnewsywake-up

What happens

GB News is a British free-to-air editorial television and radio news channel based in London, England. Announced in September 2020 and launched in June 2021 from studios at Paddington Basin, London, GB News became Britain's first television news start-up since the launch of Sky News in 1989. It was set up with the aim of broadcasting "original news, opinion and debate", with a mix of news coverage and opinion-based content. With a right-wing orientation on political issues, the channel's hosts include Nigel Farage, Eamonn Holmes, Michael Portillo, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Andrew Pierce, and Camilla Tominey. GB News is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Paul Marshall and Dubai-based investment firm Legatum, under the umbrella of a holding company, All Perspectives Ltd, which is registered in London. Marshall holds a significant shareholding in All Perspectives Ltd. The CEO of GB News is Angelos Frangopoulos, who formerly ran Sky News Australia. The journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil, who left the BBC in 2020 to join the channel, became its first chairman and presented a primetime evening programme. He left in September 2021, two weeks after the official launch, having presented only nine episodes. Alan McCormick, who is also a partner at Legatum, is chairman of GB News. As of 2026, GB News is ahead of Sky News and BBC News in "average viewership for six months in a row", but with a lower total weekly reach than both. GB News is the least trusted of the six main news broadcasters in Britain, and the only one with a negative net trust. The investigation launched into a breach of Ofcom's standards on 12 November 2023 was the subject of 14 investigations into the compliance of Ofcom's impartiality rules, including cases of potential breaches of the rule that, apart from in exceptional circumstances, politicians should not act as newsreaders, reporters or interviewers. As of 17 March 2025, Ofcom has dropped all of its remaining impartiality investigations following a High Court decision, in GB News's favour, that overturned Ofcom's previous findings, which were all ruled unlawful. In light of this decision, Ofcom intended to tighten its rules to prevent politicians from acting as presenters on TV or radio, but dropped the proposals following opposition from GB News and Rupert Murdoch's News UK. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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