GB News sets launch date

GB News will endeavor to shake up the broadcasting landscape when the news community launches its Television set channel in early June.

The news service, spearheaded by veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil, has declared strategies to go are living on Sunday June 13.

In a tweet, the channel said it would start at 8pm with a special programme, ‘Welcome to GB News’. 

The 24-hour news channel plans to fight the BBC and Sky News by targeting audiences that have grow to be disillusioned with traditional broadcasters’ protection. 

The channel, backed by the American broadcaster Discovery, has employed a raft of seasoned journalists, including veteran ITV news anchor Alastair Stewart and previous BBC News presenter Simon McCoy.

In new days it has been  ramping up the publicity around its forthcoming start, with social media films of its new London-primarily based studios in Paddington.