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Ofcom said it has imposed a £100,000 fine on GB News for “breaking due impartiality rules” following a question and answer-style debate with former prime minister Rishi Sunak earlier this year.
GB News is a British free-to-air, ... As of May 2023 more than 4,500 complaints about GB News programmes had been lodged with Ofcom since its launch.
An interview on GB News with a Covid vaccine sceptic – in which the jab was compared to “mass murder” – was in breach of broadcasting rules, Ofcom has found.. The media watchdog said the ...
Voices: The cesspit of anti-woke, anti-science conspiracy theories that is GB News. 10:15, Athena Stavrou. As both Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton are suspended by GB News, Sean O’Grady comments on ...
Steyn quit GB News in February 2023, in protest at the channel wanting to change his contract to make him personally liable for any fines issued by the UK's media regulator Ofcom, which was then investigating 411 complaints from viewers about Covid vaccine scepticism aired on Steyn's show, in potential breach of the Broadcasting Code.
In July 2024, Ofcom discontinued a fairness and privacy complaint about another episode of Dan Wootton Tonight in which he had stated that he was the target of a smear campaign. [48] On 5 March 2024, Wootton announced that he had left GB News to launch an independent platform, Dan Wootton Outspoken. [49]
GB News said Ofcom's decision was "an alarming development" aimed at stopping the public questioning politicians directly. "The regulator's threat to punish a news organisation with sanctions for ...
11 June – Isabel Webster joins the channel as the co-host of a weekly news review programme. [33] 13 June – GB News commences broadcasting at 20:00 BST. [34] [35] 336,000 viewers tune in to see the launch. [36] The launch soon becomes the subject of ridicule due to the perceived poor production quality of the channel and frequent technical ...