We are up and running as you can see. We get better every day, and there's clearly an appetite for what we're doing. In under two short weeks we've already built a loyal audience which has beaten all of our expectations, it's often bigger than other news channels and it's growing. That's the real story about GB news to date, and you won't often read that in the papers.

Andrew Neil

Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. He is the chairman of the television news channel GB News, which will launch in 2021.Neil was appointed editor of The Sunday Times by Rupert Murdoch, and served in this position from 1983 to 1994. After this he became a contributor to the Daily Mail. He was formerly chief executive and editor-in-chief of Press Holdings Media Group. In 1988 he became founding chairman of Sky TV, also part of Murdoch's News Corporation. He worked for the BBC for 25 years until 2020, fronting various programmes, including Sunday Politics and This Week on BBC One and Daily Politics, Politics Live and The Andrew Neil Show on BBC Two. Since July 2008, he has been the chairman of Press Holdings, whose titles include The Spectator, and ITP Media Group.

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