Piers Morgan rehired by Murdoch for his new TalkTV

[kenny g]

Why do you ask?

Not sure why. Just sprung to mind. Do you though?

 

[two sheds]

Not sure why. Just sprung to mind. Do you though?

Good ploy, either way you can say "Ha, I THOUGHT so".

 

[Carl Steele]

I read the thread title as "Piers Morgan retired by Murdoch" .... oh well

 

[DaveCinzano]

Good ploy, either way you can say "Ha, I THOUGHT so".

Dammit, how many times?

It's "when did you stop wearing hi-viz?"

 

[kenny g]

Serene Why?

 

[Serene]

Serene Why?

I am not familiar with hi-viz. I have heard of hi-vis, if it is hi-vis that you are referring to. I saw Bojo wearing one the other week. Je connais aussi les gilets jaunes mais pas " Hi-Viz ".

 

[DaveCinzano]

I am not familiar with hi-viz. I have heard of hi-vis, if it is hi-vis that you are referring to.

 

[cupid_stunt]

He's certainly looking to throw money at TalkTV.

Jeremy Clarkson, Jermaine Jenas and LBC presenter Nick Ferrari top a “wish list” of star names being courted to present shows on Rupert Murdoch’s new TV station, i has learned.

TalkTV, the media mogul’s latest attempt to disrupt the television industry, is scheduled to go on air early next year, broadcasting a mix of news, sports and entertainment shows.

Mr Murdoch is ready to offer “big money” to secure proven TV talent to join Morgan at the station, which has ambitions to challenge BBC and Sky, as well as sounding the death-knell for GB News.

Rupert Murdoch targets Jeremy Clarkson and Nick Ferrari for top roles on new TalkTV channel

Clarkson, Jermaine Jenas and LBC presenter Ferrari are being courted for starring roles on Rupert Murdoch's new talkTV channel

inews.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not long to launch now, I expect 'place holder' channel numbers will start appearing on the various broadcast platforms soon, as they have now unveiled the channel's logo.



Still not much information on the line-up, we know about Piers Morgan's evening show, and it's been announced that Tom Newton Dunn is moving over from Times Radio to present a weeknight news and current affairs programme, which they claim will be “straight and balanced, with views and guests across the political spectrum”.

Also Kate McCann is moving over from Sky News to become their political editor, as are various behind the scene staff from ITV/GMB and Channel 4, but no news on if they have be successful in winning over the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Jermaine Jenas or Nick Ferrari.

Rumours are they will use output from TalkRadioTV during the daytime, which would be a cheap way of filling what are 'off peak' hours for a news channel, but no mention of what they are planning at breakfast, which like evenings, should be a peak time for the channel.

They are still recruiting staff, including several for a 'Have I Got News For You' style satirical panel show.

The studios have been built, and are almost ready to go live, in what is likely going to be a lot more professional launch than GB News, but frankly that's not hard.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Getting closer to launch, they have started test transmissions on satellite, although Freesat & Sky channel numbers haven't been added yet, so it is only viewable by manually tuning, at present it's just a feed of TalkRadioTV, which according to this article will indeed fill the daytime hours, with TalkTV taking over in the evenings.

TalkTV satellite tests begin - RXTV

Test transmissions for News UK's brand-new news and current affairs channel have begun on satellite, ahead of its launch this spring.

rxtvinfo.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

Launch date confirmed for Monday 25th April.

Piers Morgan announces date for new TV show- and this is how you can watch it

Piers Morgan's new TV show on Talk TV is set to launch, alongside the channel, in just under a month, with the controversial presenter telling Twitter: "It's time to put the world to rights".

www.irishmirror.ie

 

[cupid_stunt]

Channel numbers confirmed - Sky 526, Virgin Media 627, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217.

 

[skyscraper101]

Hopefully it'll be on YouTube too so we can compare live streaming numbers. I almost exclusively watch Sky News via youtube because it's in HD and available globally (compared to freeview where its only in SD).

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hopefully it'll be on YouTube too so we can compare live streaming numbers. I almost exclusively watch Sky News via youtube because it's in HD and available globally (compared to freeview where its only in SD).

Yes, it will be on youtube, I guess just taking over the current TalkRadioTV live stream.

I am still a bit puzzled by the separate brandings of 'TalkRadio',' TalkRadioTV' & 'TalkTV', when both the radio & TV services will be sharing all their output, very unusual & mucky for a Murdoch operation.

To me it would be logical to just brand both the radio & TV services as 'TalkNews'.

 

[DaveCinzano]

To me it would be logical to just brand both the radio & TV services as 'TalkNews'.

First rule of brand consultancy is, no freebies

Also, TalkShit rolls off the tongue better

 

[cupid_stunt]

Channel numbers confirmed - Sky 526, Virgin Media 627, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217.

Those channel numbers became live yesterday, just a test broadcast with a short looped promo running ATM.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Today's Popbitch:

> Pay no mind <<

Talk: not so cheap

If continuing to pay out massive phone-hacking settlements doesn't drive NewsUK into the dirt first, it sounds as if the swelling payroll at Talk TV might. The flagship £50m deal they announced with Piers Morgan set the bar quite high, so some of the latest raft of contributors are managing to coax quite a chunk out of Murdoch's coffers.

Word around the Baby Shard is that Isabel Oakeshott was initially offered a salary somewhere in the high five-figures to act as a contributor on the new channel. But with practically nothing in the way of pushback, she managed to get them to double their offer by telling them GB News would pay her the same amount.

And then managed to get them to agree to a figure closer to the quarter-million mark by pulling the exact same line again.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Piers Morgan has compared himself to Nelson Mandela, because being off the telly for a year is clearly just like being locked up for 27 years.

Piers Morgan compares himself to Nelson Mandela

TV presenter says his battle for ‘free speech’ is similar to ex-South African leader’s struggle against apartheid

www.theguardian.com

 

[killer b]

I believe they call that 'trolling'

 

[Pickman's model]

First rule of brand consultancy is, no freebies

Also, TalkShit rolls off the tongue better

yeh but talkshit is the late show on the pubchat channel, showing conversations at the end of the evening between bar patrons who've been there all day

 

[Pickman's model]

Launch date confirmed for Monday 25th April.

Piers Morgan announces date for new TV show- and this is how you can watch it

Piers Morgan's new TV show on Talk TV is set to launch, alongside the channel, in just under a month, with the controversial presenter telling Twitter: "It's time to put the world to rights".

www.irishmirror.ie

it's time to put that channel on ignore.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Cunt hires other cunt to be a professional cunt

That about sums it up. I've never really understood the exposure Morgan has had. A mediocre intellect allied to a pedestrian style of presenting.

 

[NoXion]

What kind of demographic is Morgan supposed to appeal to? I get the feeling that his style of patrician arrogance was part of the reason for him leaving TV over here in the first place. I've certainly not knowingly come across any fans of his, online or offline. In fact a lot of people seem to think he's a cunt. Is that his career? To be a kind of hate sink? That would at least track with his TV work in the US, where he would waste his time lecturing Yanks about guns.

 

[cupid_stunt]

What kind of demographic is Morgan supposed to appeal to? I get the feeling that his style of patrician arrogance was part of the reason for him leaving TV over here in the first place. I've certainly not knowingly come across any fans of his, online or offline. In fact a lot of people seem to think he's a cunt. Is that his career? To be a kind of hate sink? That would at least track with his TV work in the US, where he would waste his time lecturing Yanks about guns.

No idea, I've always hated him, but for some reason he pulled in a good size audience when he was on Good Morning Britain, which recorded a record high of 1.9m viewers in March 2021, dropping to just 450k in under three months after he left.

Good Morning Britain’s ratings have plunged, with just 451,000 viewers watching yesterday’s episode (2 June).

Viewing figures for the ITV breakfast show have been declining since Piers Morgan’s dramatic exit in March. Ratings had hit a record high at 1.9m viewers the day before he quit over the backlash to his comments about Meghan Markle.

Good Morning Britain ratings sink to 450,000 viewers after Piers Morgan exit

Viewing figures have been in steady decline since Piers Morgan’s dramatic exit

www.independent.co.uk

 

[moochedit]

What kind of demographic is Morgan supposed to appeal to? I get the feeling that his style of patrician arrogance was part of the reason for him leaving TV over here in the first place. I've certainly not knowingly come across any fans of his, online or offline. In fact a lot of people seem to think he's a cunt. Is that his career? To be a kind of hate sink? That would at least track with his TV work in the US, where he would waste his time lecturing Yanks about guns.

I can't see many people making the effort to watch him in the evening. He used to do a breakfast show didn't he? People put that on as background while eating their toast.

 

[skyscraper101]

Piers Morgan has compared himself to Nelson Mandela, because being off the telly for a year is clearly just like being locked up for 27 years.

Piers Morgan compares himself to Nelson Mandela

TV presenter says his battle for ‘free speech’ is similar to ex-South African leader’s struggle against apartheid

www.theguardian.com

Far be it for me to defend him but that's just the kind of textbook Morgan hyperbole with the sole purpose of getting a headline.

 

[Petcha]

That about sums it up. I've never really understood the exposure Morgan has had. A mediocre intellect allied to a pedestrian style of presenting.

I certainly wouldn't describe his style as 'pedestrian'

On another note, I work with the former producer of GMB who is a lovely woman and has confirmed to me that a) Piers is a dick, but a very charming dick and b) Richard Madeley is indeed Alan Partridge but is so un self-aware he doesn't even clock it.

Altogether though, GMB was far more entertaining when he was on it and definitely far superior to BBC breakfast. That's largely down to the production crew he had, half of whom he's poached for his new show.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I certainly wouldn't describe his style as 'pedestrian'

On another note, I work with the former producer of GMB who is a lovely woman and has confirmed to me that a) Piers is a dick, but a very charming dick and b) Richard Madeley is indeed Alan Partridge but is so un self-aware he doesn't even clock it.

Altogether though, GMB was far more entertaining when he was on it and definitely far superior to BBC breakfast. That's largely down to the production crew he had, half of whom he's poached for his new show.

OK, for 'pedestrian' substitute 'formulaic and predictable'.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I certainly wouldn't describe his style as 'pedestrian'

On another note, I work with the former producer of GMB who is a lovely woman and has confirmed to me that a) Piers is a dick, but a very charming dick and b) Richard Madeley is indeed Alan Partridge but is so un self-aware he doesn't even clock it.

Altogether though, GMB was far more entertaining when he was on it and definitely far superior to BBC breakfast. That's largely down to the production crew he had, half of whom he's poached for his new show.

What sort of odd person watches TV first thing in the morning?

Mrs Sas, reading this over my shoulder has commented 'What the hell do you know about morning television, you're not usually up until after 11'. Fair enough.

 

[Petcha]

What sort of odd person watches TV first thing in the morning?

Mrs Sas, reading this over my shoulder has commented 'What the hell do you know about morning television, you're not usually up until after 11'. Fair enough.

Well, quite a few - millions (as Piers would be the first to tell you). I just used to stick it on during lockdown as I didn't need to commute so could just lie in bed and watching him roast government ministers every morning which was actually quite enjoyable. I think I prefer Madeley in terms of sheer fucking insanity though, he's completely nuts.