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GB News
GB News is a British free-to-air, editorial, opinion-orientated television and radio news channel. The channel is available on Freeview (UK), Freeview, Freesat, Sky UK, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus, LG webOS TV's (LG Channels), Rakuten TV, Apple TV and YouTube. An audio simulcast of the station is also available on Digital radio in the United Kingdom, DAB+ radio. In Australia, GB News is available on the Foxtel pay TV platform and on Foxtel's associated live TV news app, Flash. 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. Hosts of shows on the channel include Nigel Farage, Eamonn Holmes, Michael Portillo, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Camilla Tominey. GB News is jointly own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Radio In The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio has been proceeding since engineering test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990 followed by a public launch in September 1995. The UK currently has one of the world's biggest digital radio networks, with about 500 transmitters, three national Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB DAB ensemble, ensembles, one regional DAB ensemble, 48 local DAB ensembles and an increasing number of small-scale DAB ensembles broadcasting over 250 commercial and 34 List of BBC radio stations, BBC radio stations across the UK. In London there are already more than 100 different digital stations available. In addition to DAB and DAB+, radio stations are also broadcast on digital television platform as well as internet radio in the UK. Digital radio ensemble operators and stations need a broadcasting licence from the UK's media regulator Ofcom to broadcast. In the long term there will be a switchover from analogue to digital radio w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia is an Australian news channel owned by News Corp Australia. Originally launched on 19 February 1996, it broadcasts rolling news coverage throughout the day, while its prime time lineup is dedicated to opinion-based programs featuring a line-up of Conservatism in Australia, conservative Pundit, commentators. Sky News Australia is distributed on Multichannel television, pay television in Australia and New Zealand, while a free-to-air version of the service, Sky News Regional (which features programming from Sky News Australia and Fox Sports News (Australia), Fox Sports News) is distributed on Digital terrestrial television in Australia, digital terrestrial television by Southern Cross Austereo and selected WIN Television stations. The channel also operates two spin-off services, Sky News Weather Channel, and public affairs service Sky News Extra (formerly A-PAC). The channel was originally a joint venture between British broadcaster Sky UK, BSkyB (thus making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Chandler (businessman)
Christopher Chandler (born 1960) is a New Zealand businessman and founder of Dubai-based investment company Legatum which also provides funding for UK media channel GB News. As of 2013, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $1 billion. Chandler has been called "one of the world's greatest contrarian investors" by ''Fortune'' magazine. Chandler is a funder of the Legatum Institute. Early life Born in Matangi, Chandler is one of the three sons of beekeeper Robert Chandler and his wife, businesswoman Marija Chandler, known as Ana Tzarev, who launched and operated Chandler House, a department store in Hamilton, New Zealand. He attended the University of Auckland, earning a degree in law in 1982. In 1982, Christopher and his older brother, Richard, took over the business and expanded it to ten stores, adding fashion design, manufacturing and real estate, before starting to look for international investment opportunities. Career Sovereign Global In 1986, the brothers formed inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holding Company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own Share capital, stock of other companies to create a corporate group. In some jurisdictions around the world, holding companies are called parent companies, which, besides holding Share capital, stock in other companies, can conduct trade and other business activities themselves. Holding companies reduce risk for the shareholders, and can permit the ownership and control of a number of different companies. ''The New York Times'' uses the term ''parent holding company''. Holding companies can be subsidiaries in a Subsidiary#Tiered subsidiaries, tiered structure. Holding companies are also created to hold assets such as intellectual property or trade secrets, that are protected from the operating company. That creates a smaller risk when it comes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legatum
Legatum Limited, also known as Legatum, is a private investment firm, headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Legatum was founded in 2006 by Christopher Chandler. Legatum owns the British broadcaster GB News. History and business activities Legatum (meaning "legacy" or "gift") is a private investment firm based in Dubai using only capital provided by members of the firm. Legatum was founded in December 2006 in the United Arab Emirates by investor Christopher Chandler. Previously, Chandler was the president of Sovereign Global, or Sovereign, which he co-founded with his brother Richard Chandler in 1986. Sovereign invested capital in companies located in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and in industries including telecommunications, electric utilities, steel, oil and gas, banking and oil refining. The Chandler brothers embarked on separate ventures following the de-merger of Sovereign in 2006. Christopher Chandler established Legatum the following Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marshall (investor)
Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and media baron. He is the owner of ''UnHerd'', ''The Spectator'' and co-owner of GB News. According to the '' Sunday Times Rich List'', he had an estimated net worth of £875 million in 2024, up from £630 million in 2020. In 2024, he topped ''The Sunday Times Giving List'', having donated £145.1 million over 12 months to various charities, including a £50 million donation to the London School of Economics for the eponymous Marshall Institute. Marshall was a member and donor of the Liberal Democrats, and in 2004 co-edited the influential ''Orange Book'' alongside a number of prominent Liberal Democrat politicians. In 2015 he left the party due to his support for Brexit, and subsequently donated to the Brexit campaign and the Conservative Party. His ownership of ''UnHerd'' and GB News led the ''New Statesman'' to name him as the seventeenth most powerful right-wing polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Tominey
Camilla Tominey (born 14 June 1978) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and commentator. She is associate editor and executive editor of ''The Daily Telegraph''. She also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and co-hosts ''The Daily T'' podcast with Kamal Ahmed (journalist), Kamal Ahmed. Since January 2023, she has presented ''The Camilla Tominey Show'', a Sunday morning politics show on GB News. Early life Tominey was born on 14 June 1978. Her father was a Catholic Church, Catholic and worked as a general practitioner, running the local practice. Her mother Lynne (1947–2001) was a housewife. Tominey's grandfather was in the Royal Navy. She has two older brothers. She was brought up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and educated at Roundwood JMI School, followed by the independent St Albans High School for Girls from the age of seven. Her parents divorced and she went to live with her mother. Tominey has commented that her mother suffered from alcoholism and that "there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg ( ; born 24 May 1969) is a British politician, broadcaster and member of the Conservative Party who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024. He served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency from February to September 2022 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from September to October 2022. Rees-Mogg previously chaired the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) from 2018 to 2019 and has been associated with socially conservative views. Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, London. He was educated at Westminster Under School, Eton College and the University of Oxford where he studied history as an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Oxford, and served as president of Oxford University Conservative Association. He went on to work in the City of London and in Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Portillo
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo ( ; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as ''Great British Railway Journeys'' and ''Great Continental Railway Journeys''. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984 to 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency), Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election, 1999 to 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005, holding a number of ministerial and Cabinet positions. Portillo obtained a first-class degree in history from the University of Cambridge, having been a student at Peterhouse. He began his working life as a graduate trainee with the transport company Ocean Group plc, before joining the Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes (; born 3 December 1959) is a Northern Irish broadcaster and journalist. He co-presented the breakfast television show ''GMTV'' (1993–2005) for ITV, before presenting ''Sunrise'' (2005–2016) for Sky News. Holmes co-presented ITV's '' This Morning'' (2006–2021) with his then-wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays and during the school holidays. In January 2022, he joined ''GB News ''to present its breakfast programme alongside Isabel Webster. He has also presented '' How the Other Half Lives'' (2015–2019) and ''It's Not Me, It's You'' (2016) for Channel 5. Holmes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to broadcasting in the 2018 New Year Honours. He is an advocate for numerous charities and causes, including Dogs Trust, Variety GB and Northern Ireland Kidney Patients' Association. Early life and education Holmes was educated at Holy Family Primary School [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farage ( ; born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton (UK Parliament constituency), Clacton and Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England (European Parliament constituency), South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020. A prominent Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, Eurosceptic since the early 1990s, Farage was first elected to the European Parliament (EP) in 1999. In 2004, he became the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. Farage was 2006 UK Independence Party leadership election, elected UKIP's leader in 2006 and led the party at the 2009 European Parliament election, when it won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
