GB News won its battle with TalkTV – but both face uncertain future
TalkTV’s shift to online only is a moment of reckoning for the two broadcasting upstarts
Don’t rescue people who scupper their Channel boats, says Reform UK deputy
Ben Habib says navy or Border Force should not save people who throw themselves into sea if they have refused other vessels
The Sun loses £66m amid costs from phone-hacking scandal
British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire reports near-£54m deficit due to TalkTV costs
March 2024
Notebook
TalkTV’s natural home was never going to be on television
Tomiwa Owolade
The station’s move online will cater for die-hard viewers who want to watch its content wherever they can
Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch! Let’s hope this love match lasts longer than TalkTV
Marina Hyde
This is the media mogul’s second proposal in 12 months. We mortals can only speculate about his mesmerising dating secrets, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
TalkTV to close down television channel and go online only
Move announced by News UK venture comes weeks after Piers Morgan left his daily show on channel
February 2024
Piers Morgan to leave TalkTV show to focus on YouTube
Some interviews will still be shown on TalkTV but Morgan calls commitment to daily show ‘unnecessary straitjacket’
‘Not a betting person’: Rishi Sunak rows back on £1,000 Rwanda bet
PM says he was ‘taken by surprise’ by Piers Morgan wager, yet he has previously spoken about betting online
The politics sketch
The longest hour: Piers Morgan’s excruciating ‘interview’ with Rishi Sunak
John Crace
Prime minister joined UK Sun God for an exchange of awkward blokey bants, unbased claims and bonfire of vanities
September 2023
What does Rupert Murdoch’s resignation mean for his UK media outlets?
Piers Morgan says ‘due impartiality’ rules for British TV out of date
August 2023
Should MPs be banned from becoming talkshow hosts?
Jon Allsop
Ofcom’s current rules are confusing and the regulator needs to decide if the trend is a risk to impartiality, says freelance journalist Jon Allsop
July 2023
Huw Edwards: the unanswered questions hovering over presenter’s future
Andy Coulson advising Huw Edwards’s family on crisis management
Parents in Huw Edwards case ‘offered tens of thousands for TalkTV interview’
Ofcom to investigate GB News and TalkTV over impartiality rules
March 2023
Losses deepen at GB News as network moves to fend off rival TalkTV
Hiring costs for presenters such as Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg balloon while advertisers stay wary of right-leaning channel
Isabel Oakeshott says she fell out with Hancock over I’m a Celebrity trip
Journalist says ex-minister ‘vanished’ at key moment for book, as she faces questions over leak to Telegraph
Isabel Oakeshott: the journalist who turned over Matt Hancock
Ex-minister’s judgment questioned for trusting journalist who has long made clear her disdain for his lockdown policies
