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GB News recruitment

BBC newsreader Simon McCoy is joining GB News. The presenter, best known to BBC viewers through viral clips of him offering sardonic asides, will host an afternoon programme on the new channel. GB News is pushing ahead with the hiring of more than 100 staff across the UK ahead of its launch.  Andrew Neil will […]

March 26, 2021

ITV Hub streams up 5% in December

The ITV Hub has announced a strong performance throughout December, achieving 81 million programme streams, an increase of 5 per cent year on year. The Christmas period, between 21st December and 3rd January, saw an uplift in viewing of 11 per cent, compared to the same time in 2019. With a total of 6.9 million […]

January 14, 2021

Record numbers for ITV Hub

The ITV Hub streaming service has announced record breaking viewer performances in its programmes across daytime, drama, entertainment and factual throughout 2020. Love Island’s most recent South Africa series achieved over 130 million requests across the VoD service, becoming the most requested programme across the ITV Hub, while daytime shows Good Morning Britain, This Morning […]

December 28, 2020

Data: Good Morning Britain most tweeted TV of 2020

Data from Kantar Media has revealed the most tweeted about TV programme/series of 2020 overall was ITV’s Good Morning Britain (with 4,930,926 tweets) followed by Love Island (3,172,459), BBC Breakfast (1,812,446), Question Time (1,666,730) and live FA Cup football coverage (1,376,162). Love Island also topped the list of most tweeted about live broadcast shows, with […]

December 16, 2020