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GB News Overtakes BBC as Britain’s Most-Watched News Channel in July

Official BARB figures show GB News led breakfast, prime-time and political slots, supported by a 6% rise in radio listeners.

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GB News breakfast presenters Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello opening the show on Friday 1 August 2025. Picture: Youtube screenshot/GB News

Overview

  • In July GB News averaged 80,600 daily viewers across 6 am–2 am, surpassing the BBC News Channel’s 78,700 and Sky News’s 67,000, according to BARB.
  • The channel topped ratings in breakfast, weekday prime-time and the Sunday morning political slot for the first time in a full month.
  • GB News Radio’s weekly reach rose 6% year-on-year in Q2 2025 to 547,000 listeners, driven by gains across its morning and weekend shows.
  • Its website has become the fastest-growing news platform in the United States, although its total UK weekly reach remains less than half that of the BBC News Channel.
  • A new Washington DC show will launch in September as GB News presses ahead with its goal to be the UK’s largest news channel by 2028.