Murdoch Personally Trying to Save UK Rightwing Talk Channel

[Mark Jeffries]

The talkTV channel, whose supposed star attraction Piers Morgan has been beaten in the ratings by Brexit boy Nigel Farage on equally-ailing rival rightwing channel GBNews (not to mention reruns of the 70s Britcom "The Good Life," or as it was called on US public TV stations "The Good Neighbors"--with that spelling--on the Gold channel), is supposedly getting Rupert's personal attention as Fox News people are being rounded up to tweak the channel, employees of Murdoch's talkradio (of which the majority of the talkTV schedule is simulcasts of their shows) are disgruntled and the rumor mill on both talkTV and GBNews (including a possible merger) is going wild:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/23/rupert-murdoch-uses-london-visit-to-try-to-boost-ratings-at-talktv

At certain points, the prime time schedule of talkTV has scored a zero in the ratings.  Morgan's show is also on Fox Nation in the US (streaming, so nobody's reporting ratings numbers) and Murdoch's Sky News Australia (airing over 14 hours after live telecast in the UK--and when is Comcast going to pull the rights to use the Sky trademark for what is basically Aussie Fox News?).

[Kevin M.]

Rupert Murdoch molests collies 

Piers Morgan exclusively molests defenseless and unwilling female collies 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Tom Wolper]

You say Rupert Murdoch and I think Abe Simpson. Rupert is 91 years old. What difference is his attention going to make? Is he going to work 16 hour days re-establishing the basics or personally take on the social media strategy? Thirty years ago and possibly twenty years ago his personal intervention could get a TV channel back on track. Today, even if he has full cognitive function, I doubt he knows enough about the 2022 media landscape to correct anything.

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