[News Engineer]

Whatever you may think of Murdoch and his company, they would have prepared for this - this event is where Murdoch wants Talk TV to shine, I feel they would have done a deal to ensure all sister networks of Fox get to air coverage including his Sky News Australia. He maybe old, but he knows the broadcasting business very well.

It doesn’t matter what I or anyone else ‘think of Murdoch’, he does indeed know the broadcasting business very well. In which case he - or those who advise him - will understand rights / copyright, what you can and can’t do.

If he really ‘wants TalkTV to shine’ they’d have paid up for access to the pool feed way earlier than they - seemingly - did. They either thought they could / should get it for free (when they had no right to do so), or having realised they wouldn’t, decided with GB News to use it as a publicity stunt to bash the BBC. (Barely mentioning the other UK broadcasters and news agency who are part of the pool.)

Co-ownership of networks is way less important for this than the rights / agreements a broadcaster has for the country / countries they are broadcasting to. You can’t just pass a feed onto a co-owned channel for them to broadcast unless they have the rights to do so.