They should move it before News Desk, then find something edgier for 9pm.
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Itās too light, the subjects are all wrong.
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Seems to be what they on the rest of the day though too - hard out at roughly :57 and restart on the hour (with top-of-hour newsā¦ flagship shows seem different, they want to at least start them on the hour, hence their ā9pmā news at the end of Piers at ~8.55).
Sounds like they still have advertising commitments for TalkRadio in the lead-up to the top of the hourā¦ probably more signs of āradio firstā at this stage.
On the other hand, I wonder if they still have the IRN/Sky News Radio contract on the radio station outside of the flagship hoursā¦ the news bulletin I peeked into then (at 8am BST) seemed āradio-ableā on the news side but then the weather spot had a social media video and ālook at thisā of a hailstorm or somethingā¦ ālook at thisā doesnāt really work on radio as we all know.
But that smells of āthree minutes of ads, two minutes of IRN bulletin + weather, a couple minutes more of radio adsā on the radio, until TalkTV joins back up at :05 for the next hour of TalkRadio simulcast.
But I also canāt see an IRN/Sky bulletin being on the radio in the long term if they are doing TV on-the-hour seemingly inhouse. Hmmā¦
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Piers was #1 in its timeslot again of all the news channels. News channels donāt rate that high. Visualised radio doesnāt cost anymore than it did just as radio so as a revenue stream itās not like itās expensive.
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But thats only for the 20-odd hours a day of programming outside of UK āprimetimeā - both Piers and Sharon Osborneās programs would be commanding significantly greater cost then the rest of the content (probably combined).
You can somewhat accept a zero outside of these big shows knowing that the TV numbers arenāt the full reach
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TalkTV got themselves one of the Tory Leader debates basically thanks to their association with The Sun. Having lost one host already to a positive covid test earlier it came to a half tonight after half an hour when the host fainted off screen.
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Kyle will take over from Morgan on flagship Uncensored for a five-week period up to September 5 while Morgan films a new series of his true crime documentary and ātakes a well-earned vacation,ā according to Talk TV.
Definitely not well-earned. Heās only been doing it a couple of months and heās been absent from shows already.
Its Summer holidays in the UK at the moment - canāt be that surprised heās buggered off for a break given everyone else has
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Heās already done a month longer than he would have at GMB over the summer.
How is TalkTv covering the Queens death?
They were live from 6.30pm for the announcement with Piers and a mixture of programs that evening, then back to radio overnight.
Then 6am - 10pm Friday they were live with TV presentation from Piers studio all day with different presenters.
Live 7-10pm on Saturday night
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New TalkTV sets
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A rebrand happening soon? The media vertical of right-wing political blog Guido Fawkes is reporting TalkTV could be renamed The Sun TV (sic) very soon, complete with red-top logo and a more ānewsyā agenda, with Jeremy Kyle having recorded some after-break bumpers and promos in the last few days.
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Tom Newton Dunn has left TalkTV and News UK. He had been off-air since last June.
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