Murdoch’s British Right-Wing Channel Shuttering TV Network, Going Strictly Online

Less than two years after Rupert Murdoch’s News UK launched his British right-wing network TalkTV to great fanfare, the channel will stop broadcasting on television and transition to a digital streaming operation.

The move comes just weeks after Piers Morgan, the network’s top star, announced that he was ending his weeknight TalkTV show and taking it to his YouTube channel, where he said the “vast majority” of his audience watched Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Since its debut in April 2022 with a much-hyped Donald Trump interview, the Murdoch-led channel has struggled in the ratings and significantly trailed its conservative TV rival GB News, known as the British Fox News, as it’s courted controversy in recent years. In December 2023, TalkTV reached 2 million viewers while GB News had 2.87 million.

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