UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has imposed a £100,000 (€119,500) financial penalty on GB News for breaking due impartiality rules. Ofcom’s earlier investigation found that an appropriately wide range of significant viewpoints was not presented and given due weight in People’s Forum: The Prime Minister – a live, hour-long current affairs programme broadcast on February 12th […]

DoubleVerify (DV), the software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, has revealed findings from the DV Election Task Force. The data reveals there was a 55 per cent increase in the rate of Inflammatory Politics and News (IPN) in the content DV measures on May 22nd, the day UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak […]

Channel 4 is launching a campaign to encourage people to vote in the General Election, rebranding as Channel 4th in reference to the July 4th polling date. Developed by Channel 4’s in-house creative agency, 4creative, the campaign sees the on-air channel graphic (the bug), Channel 4 idents and continuity slides become 4th between July 1st […]

ITV has confirmed its line up for Election night. Tom Bradby – who anchored election nights in 2015, 2017 and 2019 – will again lead ITV’s coverage as viewers see the results announced and the emerging political shape of the new Parliament. Bradby will be joined in the studio throughout the night by a team […]

Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate on June 4th drew in a peak of 5.5 million viewers (average 5 million) across devices, an increase of almost 2 million viewers on the Conservative Prime Minister debate in 2022. The combination of the leaders’ debate on ITV1, Love Island on ITV2 and the Lioness football qualifier (England […]

The BBC has announced it will host two prime-time TV debates – the final head-to-head leaders’ debate before polling day, and a seven-party debate – and a Question Time leaders’ special, as part of its General Election campaign coverage. There will be additional dedicated debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The debate line-up is: […]

ITV has announced that its General Election multi-party debate will take place on June 13th at 8.30pm. The ITV Election Debate 2024 will be broadcast on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player. Leaders or senior representatives from the following parties will participate; Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform UK, Green Party and Plaid […]

ITV has announced that the first head-to-head General Election debate between Rishi Sunak, leader of the Conservative Party, and Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, will take place on ITV1, ITVX and STV and STV Player on June 4th at 9pm. The hour-long debate, Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate, will be moderated by […]

An Ofcom investigation has concluded that People’s Forum: The Prime Minister on GB News broke broadcasting due impartiality rules. Given this represents a serious and repeated breach of these rules, Ofcom is now starting the process for consideration of a statutory sanction against GB News. Ofcom received 547 complaints about this live, hour-long current affairs […]

Voters across England and Wales will go to polls on May 2nd to elect councillors, metro mayors and police and crime commissioners in what will be the last big electoral test before the next general election. Sky News will bring audiences the full story, with special coverage from when the polls close, through the weekend […]