You say Rupert Murdoch and I think Abe Simpson. Rupert is 91 years old. What difference is his attention going to make? Is he going to work 16 hour days re-establishing the basics or personally take on the social media strategy? Thirty years ago and possibly twenty years ago his personal intervention could get a TV channel back on track. Today, even if he has full cognitive function, I doubt he knows enough about the 2022 media landscape to correct anything.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 5:15 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The talkTV channel, whose supposed star attraction Piers Morgan has been > beaten in the ratings by Brexit boy Nigel Farage on equally-ailing rival > rightwing channel GBNews (not to mention reruns of the 70s Britcom "The > Good Life," or as it was called on US public TV stations "The Good > Neighbors"--with that spelling--on the Gold channel), is supposedly getting > Rupert's personal attention as Fox News people are being rounded up to > tweak the channel, employees of Murdoch's talkradio (of which the majority > of the talkTV schedule is simulcasts of their shows) are disgruntled and > the rumor mill on both talkTV and GBNews (including a possible merger) is > going wild: > > > https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/23/rupert-murdoch-uses-london-visit-to-try-to-boost-ratings-at-talktv > > At certain points, the prime time schedule of talkTV has scored a zero in > the ratings. Morgan's show is also on Fox Nation in the US (streaming, so > nobody's reporting ratings numbers) and Murdoch's Sky News Australia > (airing over 14 hours after live telecast in the UK--and when is Comcast > going to pull the rights to use the Sky trademark for what is basically > Aussie Fox News?). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7ae993a7-e69f-430c-b8af-76003367e009n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7ae993a7-e69f-430c-b8af-76003367e009n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiH1QUDwR2q5bo7xWiAB%2BS1FivS1_b3Vr324Ld2WLzu%2BmA%40mail.gmail.com.
