Launch TalkTV

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In typical Murdoch fashion, its very slick. I have to say.  Everyone commented on the graphics being very American. Thats because they likely are. The graphics to me, especially the lower third, llive bug, live sweeps....they all look like they were actually created at Fox News Creative Services in NYC.  It cant be sheer coincidence. They are strikingly similar to FNC,WEATHER, BUSINESS.  Why not use Fox News Creative Services. Its a cheaper alternative than outsourcing another company to do it. They already have the employees and they completely relaunched FNC/Business graphics a few years ago and they just completed the look for FoxWeather. All of their programmes have different graphic looks and they switch them up frequently, so coming up with a look for a channel thats going to use the same look across the network, probably wasnt a huge deal or a great workload. Makes sense to use Fox News Creative services to do Talktv. But remember JUMP did their branding and likely had something to do with the full motion graphic opens and idents. But to me the on-screen furniture all look FNC Graphics from FN Creative Services.

Also the SWOOSH noise that you hear, thats the same noise is on pretty much all FNC programming. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE the themes. Piers's opening graphics, made me roll my eyes. 

I think you're absolutely right. NewscastStudio has published a gallery of the full graphics, and clearly Fox News Creative Services (as Fox Media Production Group) is stated as one of the designers (alongside Jump), which makes sense given the style of the graphics.

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Personally, I find TalkTV really professional and goodly throughout produced in contrast to GB News. Erron Gordon did a great job working on the channel's presentation (content is other story we clearly know) and the sheer amount of work done with virtual and real sets, graphics, music and promotion is certainly worth for. It even looks much more polished visually than Fox News (which we know it has some tacky graphics, but it works for the kind of channel it is), and certainly the people over in the States will try to polish more their presentation after seeing how TalkTV is working. They even adopted the Fox News presentation philosophy of going entirely OTT and making the presentation as exciting as the content.

In the regards of the livestream, I think they were tinkering a bit with the stream yesterday: not geoblocked during The News Desk, totally geoblocked during Piers, again not geoblocked during the rest of the night...; but they finally settled in making the stream geoblocked in other nations where Murdoch has TV presence (as @London Lite mentioned earlier in the thread). I don't think they will resort to geoblocking Piers other than in these five nations, given the show is also airing in Sky News Australia and Fox Nation, and certainly Murdoch wants the outlet to be available to as much foreign audience as he can (specially with the situation of the Piers show).