News Corp buy The Wireless Group (formerly UTV Media)

Philip · Thu 30 Jun, 2016 14.15

I know there are more important news stories occurring at the moment but this is a huge announcement in the world of radio.

talkSPORT = Sky Sports Radio and talkRADIO = Sky News Radio?

http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/30/new ... ess-group/

Nick Harvey · Thu 30 Jun, 2016 17.15

Sky News Radio would be interesting.

There already is one, hidden away on one of the transponders. It's the feed to stations for the news on the hour and various other news cuts.

It's what replaced the old "IRN feed".

cityprod · Tue 05 Jul, 2016 16.40

Gotta say, this is a surprising move by News Corp, and quite frankly, after taking over the Wall Street Journal, nothing should be surprising, but somehow, this is surprising.

Anybody else think that they'd go down the Global route of Local breakfast and drivetime and network the rest of the way?

Inspector Sands · Mon 18 Jul, 2016 16.53

Nick Harvey wrote:Sky News Radio would be interesting.

There already is one, hidden away on one of the transponders. It's the feed to stations for the news on the hour and various other news cuts.

It's what replaced the old "IRN feed".

Sky News replaced ITN as the news provider to IRN a good few years ago. It's still 'IRN' but they just don't brand it that way.

Inspector Sands · Mon 18 Jul, 2016 16.54

Not everyone at TalkSport is happy about the takeover:
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/07/colin-m ... corp-deal/

Alexia · Mon 18 Jul, 2016 18.35

Inspector Sands wrote:Not everyone at TalkSport is happy about the takeover:
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/07/colin-m ... corp-deal/

A man of principle. The type of principle that led him to chase the money by leaving the BBC for TalkSPORT in the first place, but still, principle.

Nick Harvey · Tue 19 Jul, 2016 16.16

Inspector Sands wrote:
Nick Harvey wrote:Sky News Radio would be interesting.

There already is one, hidden away on one of the transponders. It's the feed to stations for the news on the hour and various other news cuts.

It's what replaced the old "IRN feed".
Sky News replaced ITN as the news provider to IRN a good few years ago. It's still 'IRN' but they just don't brand it that way.

Yes, it's still IRN, but what I said was that the feed on Astra, labelled 'SNR', and referred to in the preamble to the news on the hour as "Sky News Radio", replaced the old "IRN feed" on the other commercial satellites.

Inspector Sands · Wed 20 Jul, 2016 19.55

Alexia wrote:
Inspector Sands wrote:Not everyone at TalkSport is happy about the takeover:
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/07/colin-m ... corp-deal/
A man of principle. The type of principle that led him to chase the money by leaving the BBC for TalkSPORT in the first place, but still, principle.

Leaving company A to go to company B for more money is hardly a lapse of someone's principles. It's how most people move on in their career.

Alexia · Wed 20 Jul, 2016 21.24

talkSport is to sports radio as spam is to caviar.

wells · Sun 31 Jul, 2016 00.22

Inspector Sands wrote:
Alexia wrote:
Inspector Sands wrote:Not everyone at TalkSport is happy about the takeover:
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/07/colin-m ... corp-deal/
A man of principle. The type of principle that led him to chase the money by leaving the BBC for TalkSPORT in the first place, but still, principle.
Leaving company A to go to company B for more money is hardly a lapse of someone's principles. It's how most people move on in their career.

Yes, just because it's a service Alexia isn't a fan of, doesn't mean it's amoral.

It's clearly a more tabloid product than 5 Live Sport, but I think talkSPORT is a real success story.

Nick Harvey · Sun 31 Jul, 2016 11.54

wells wrote:It's clearly a more tabloid product than 5 Live Sport.

TalkSport is to Five Live Sport as Classic FM is to Radio Three.