Murdoch’s UK TV Station to Go Off Air in Favor of Web Content
- TalkTV broadcasts will be available on streaming platforms
- Move to streaming follows Piers Morgan’s pivot to YouTube
Journalist Piers Morgan filming in front of 10 Downing Street in London for TalkTV.
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TalkTV, News Corp.’s UK news channel, will stop television broadcasting this summer following a move by its top personality, Piers Morgan, to stream content on YouTube.
“We now need to focus our investment on where the eyeballs are and where the revenues are in growth,” Scott Taunton, executive vice president of broadcasting, said in a memo on Tuesday. “Linear channel slots cost us millions a year and the advertising revenues are never going to materially exceed the cost of being in these distribution slots.”