Liz Truss to relaunch podcast on channel of broadcaster famous for ‘grow concrete’ exchange
Summary
Liz Truss, former UK prime minister, is restarting her podcast on a YouTube channel run by Mike Graham, a broadcaster known for controversial remarks. The new podcast will livestream twice a week and aims to reach a larger audience than her previous episodes, which had fewer viewers.Key Facts
- Liz Truss was UK prime minister but left after a failed economic plan called the mini-budget.
- Her earlier podcast episodes often had fewer than 4,000 views, too low to earn money from ads.
- She will now livestream her podcast twice weekly on UKLive, a YouTube channel run by Mike Graham.
- Mike Graham was fired from TalkTV after an investigation into a racist post on Facebook, which he denied posting.
- Graham’s channel gets an average of 24,000 views per video and has about 179,000 subscribers.
- UKLive has posted about 1,700 videos in the past year, gaining 41 million views and making thousands of pounds from ads.
- YouTube channels like UKLive are not regulated by the UK’s official TV watchdog, Ofcom.
- Other controversial broadcasters, such as Laurence Fox, also appear on UKLive.
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