[RJLD24]

Ian Collins presented First Edition last night and I thought he did a really good job.

Got a lot of time for Ian, he always seems to have thought out his views rationally (even if I may disagree with some of them) instead of being a shock-jock like some others on the station are.

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I agree Ian did a great job (as have all the stand-ins to be fair). But you do have to wonder how long First Edition in its current form will last. 
If Kyle and Thorp go to Breakfast - and providing Julia stays at Talk - how about having her in the late night 10pm-midnight slot (ditching the 11pm PMU repeat)?

I would have Rosanna Lockwood at 7pm with a new news-y show.

7pm - Rosanna Lockwood
8pm - Piers Morgan Uncensored
9pm - The Talk 
10pm - Julia Hartley-Brewer
12am - Piers Morgan Uncensored (r)

[Jon]

They already had newsy style show at 7pm, it regularly recorded zero viewers. I don’t see the use of trying that again.

They’d be better off showing the best bits of their breakfast show.

[AndyB2008]

I agree Ian did a great job (as have all the stand-ins to be fair). But you do have to wonder how long First Edition in its current form will last. 
If Kyle and Thorp go to Breakfast - and providing Julia stays at Talk - how about having her in the late night 10pm-midnight slot (ditching the 11pm PMU repeat)?

I would have Rosanna Lockwood at 7pm with a new news-y show.

7pm - Rosanna Lockwood
8pm - Piers Morgan Uncensored
9pm - The Talk 
10pm - Julia Hartley-Brewer
12am - Piers Morgan Uncensored (r)

If the Piers repeat moves to 12am, what then happens to Petrie Hosken, the last hour of her show which is simulcast on radio and TV?

Petrie lost overnights when TalkTV started to cut back (Darryl Morris went to Times Radio as a result too).

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They already had newsy style show at 7pm, it regularly recorded zero viewers. I don’t see the use of trying that again.

They’d be better off showing the best bits of their breakfast show.

Yep, The News Desk it was called, and it didn't help that it was scheduled against the already established Channel 4 News, a similar analytical news programme. 

Not to mention the extended ITV 6.30pm bulletin had launched 3 months earlier before The News Desk debuted. (And again, ITV's 6.30pm news was established)

Moving Tom Newton Dunn to 10pm (which saw Daisy McAndrew's show axed in the process) was a sign Talk had lost patience with the ratings for his show at 7pm, and probably felt Kyle would bring his ITV audience to 7pm instead.

[radiorebel]

Just out of curiosity, are Talk TV trying to be taken seriously as a news organisation? Putting this headline on a Breaking News strap is very odd.

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[AJB39]

Just out of curiosity, are Talk TV trying to be taken seriously as a news organisation? Putting this headline on a Breaking News strap is very odd.

up.metropol247.co.uk 

It’s exactly the type of headline strap that Fox News would put out.

[JMT1985]

It’s exactly the type of headline strap that Fox News would put out.

Considering Talk TV and Fox News have the same owner, comes as no surprise to me

[Brekkie]

Do OFCOM impartiality rules extend to non-UK politics? It might be something more along the lines of discrimination against the elderly where it would be deemed to be in breech.

Regardless though on air graphics like that make you look like an absolute joke of an operation.

[lepeterrr]

Do OFCOM impartiality rules extend to non-UK politics?    It might be something more along the lines of discrimination against the elderly where it would be deemed to be in breech.

Regardless though on air graphics like that make you look like an absolute joke of an operation.

Considering the audience they're after, I doubt it's going to affect them very much.
Not that they can drop any lower.

[Stuart]

Do OFCOM impartiality rules extend to non-UK politics?    It might be something more along the lines of discrimination against the elderly where it would be deemed to be in breech.

Regardless though on air graphics like that make you look like an absolute joke of an operation.

I think Ofcom actually have jurisdiction over the quality and impartiality of anything transmitted out of the UK, regardless of the intended reception area, or when it's uplinked to Astra satellites from Betzdorf in Luxembourg, by whatever connection route and broadcast elsewhere.

If it originates in the UK, they will monitor the output.

[Nobby]

Talk TV showed a promo for a Piers Morgan show on Fox Nation after a break during Piers Morgan Uncensored this evening. Have they done this before? Was it a mistake? Piers Morgan referred to it, saying it was only available in America, which the promo itself didn't do.