‘There was a serious shakeup of administrators too, with Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider, who arrange GB Information’ dad or mum firm final February, resigning as administrators and promoting their stakes.’
Proper-wing information channel GB Information has misplaced a serious investor, simply over a 12 months after its launch. Warner Bros Discovery is promoting its stake in GB Information.
Discovery was one of many early traders in GB Information, which has been hit by a string of points and embarrassing rankings in its opening weeks. Andrew Neil, who had joined the channel as chairman, stop, saying that he didn’t wish to work for the British model of Fox Information and had labelled his former employer a ‘catastrophe’.
GB Information has additionally been criticised for platforming local weather sceptics in addition to giving air time to Covid conspiracy theories. In July, it was introduced that the channel is being investigated by the media regulator Ofcom after one among its hosts made deceptive claims concerning the side-effects of Covid booster vaccines.
Saying their determination to ‘exit their funding in GB Information’, Warner Bros. Discovery stated in a press release: “Following the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia earlier this 12 months, our portfolio now contains a number of wholly owned information manufacturers together with CNN Worldwide, TVN Group in Poland and Newshub in New Zealand.
“In gentle of this, and our continued analysis of our international and native funding portfolio, we’ve got exited our funding in GB Information and are now not shareholders.”
The channel has nevertheless stated that it has secured a further £60 million in new funding from its remaining backers. It has needed to flip to Legatum Ventures and hedge fund boss Paul Marshall for extra funds after simply 18 months.
There was a serious shakeup of administrators too, with Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider, who arrange GB Information’ dad or mum firm final February, resigning as administrators and promoting their stakes.
Legatum is a Dubai-based funding agency co-founded by GB Information chairman Alan McCormick and Marshall.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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