Aussie outsider Angelos Frangopoulos shakes up British TV with GB News

Over lunch at an Australian-themed cafe in London, the Sky News veteran charts the trials of starting up maverick broadcaster GB News, and whether the model would work back home.

Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

Mar 18, 2022 – 12.30pm

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London | When picking a lunch venue, you might expect the boss of newly minted TV station GB News – which has a Union Jack in its logo, after all – to choose somewhere offering hearty English fare.

But Angelos Frangopoulos is a proud Aussie. So, we’re at a west London café-bar-restaurant called Bondi Green.

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Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondentHans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London.