Launch TalkTV

[London Lite]

Piers's mic doesn't sound as good on TalkRadio as unlike the News UK studio, it's designed for television and not for a combined TV/radio studio.

[Meteor]

Doesn't sound as good on TV either. Slightly echoey and tinny?

This interview is something of a turn-off if minor royals aren't your thing

[FrancisC]

Kate McCann seemingly spread quite thin over the course of Tom's programme - covering the Angela Rayner news from Westminster, her interview with a Prince Andrew accuser and then Tom mentioned she would be back in the studio later in the show as part of the panel.

[TVenthusiasm]

Does P.M set have a staircase?!

Interesting.....

It does have a staircase, have no idea why it's there

[thomalex]

Does P.M set have a staircase?!

Interesting.....

It does have a staircase, have no idea why it's there

Picturing Piers walking down it serenaded by a band, full Parkinson

[eyeTV]

To be fair to GB News, Talk TV is just producing 3hrs of shows for TV. The rest is a radio station on TV.

[scottishtv]

Ahh... News UK treating everyone to an anti-Facebook and an anti-Google story within the first hour. It's almost as if Uncle Rupert still hates them for taking lucrative ad revenue from newspapers. His publications run stories against Facebook/YouTube/Google daily.

Looks like they'll throw the 'liberal big tech is censoring us' line into the mix too.

[GaryMcEwan]

Bold, brash and in your face. Impressive.

[JasonB]

Does P.M set have a staircase?!

Interesting.....

It does have a staircase, have no idea why it's there

Picturing Piers walking down it serenaded by a band, full Parkinson

Along to the song "What a Wonderful World"

[QuinnTFP]

A new alert ticker has just been shown. Actually looks quite nice other than it being a bit jumpy

[TVenthusiasm]

First outing that I'm aware of for the Alert strap:

[Jon]

To be fair to GB News, Talk TV is just producing 3hrs of shows for TV.  The rest is a radio station on TV.

The radio station aspects will almost certainly look better than GB News though.

[soupie]

Apart from Piers’ show which will do OK, cannot see what the point of this hour of straight news is. GB News (strange as it is) had a mission statement. I don’t really know why Talk TV exists beyond Piers.

[Matt]

Love it. So much better than GB News. Impressive graphics and apart from the sound sync issues, really good so far. The “American” style presentation is what we needed (in my opinion) to provide some variety and give the other news channels a kick up the you know what.

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First outing that I'm aware of for the Alert strap:

I assume there’ll be a similar thing for breaking news.

[Lester]

Why didn't they just call the channel 'Talk UK' or just 'Talk' so that it makes sense on the radio which I imagine is still their no1 revenue?