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Discovery-Backed GB News Channel to Launch in June

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Naman Ramachandran Discovery-backed channel GB News will launch June 13 in the U.K. with a special program “Welcome to GB News.”The channel will be available on Freeview channel 236, Sky HD, Virgin Media HD, YouView channel 236 and Freesat channel 216, besides mobile and online.GB News is backed by Discovery and several other mostly non-British based financiers to the tune of £60 million ($82 million).

The operation is led by chair Andrew Neil.Neil helped Rupert Murdoch launch Sky TV back in the late 1980s. He was once an outspoken critic of the BBC when he edited the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times, but later became the one BBC interviewer most feared by British politicians of all stripes.

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