TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted December 10, 2025 Author Posted December 10, 2025 Canada CHCH's weeknight hour-long 6:00 p.m. newscast can now be heard on the radio on Hamilton's 1150 CKOC. https://www.1150ckoc.com/chch-evening-news-on-ckoc/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted December 12, 2025 Author Posted December 12, 2025 Ireland After the rebranding of TRTE to RTE Kids last year, their sibling has done the same as of last month. Instead of RTEjr, its now RTE Kids Jr.
mre29 1967 Posted December 12, 2025 Posted December 12, 2025 1 minute ago, TheRolyPoly said: Ireland After the rebranding of TRTE to RTE Kids last year, their sibling has done the same as of last month. Instead of RTEjr, its now RTE Kids Jr. Having both "Kids" and "Jr." in the name seems redundant.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted December 15, 2025 Author Posted December 15, 2025 Canada As of this weekend, the last of Global stations' Global 1 helicopters are being grounded for GOOD. These are the final sign offs for those choppers from CITV Edmonton, CICT Calgary, and CHAN Vancouver. 1
mouseboy33 137 Posted December 15, 2025 Posted December 15, 2025 Canadian media is really faltering. Sad to see.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted December 31, 2025 Author Posted December 31, 2025 If you're unaware, Paramount is shutting down all MTV-related music channels around the world, but NOT MTV itself, as the reality crap we all come to hate will still be around. Now that its New Year's Eve 2025, some have begun to shut down entirely, such as MTV Hits in France.
Yankees4life 599 Posted December 31, 2025 Posted December 31, 2025 Ehh...good riddance to trash. MTV Hits tho will be missed but YouTube exists
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 United Kingdom Sky News at Ten is coming to an end on Sunday after a nearly 26-year run, as well as Sky News at 11, and the separate Press Preview (10:30 and 11:30pm) programs. Instead, its being replaced by a new two-hour program called The Wrap from 10pm-12 midnight. Anna Botting, who's been at Sky News for as long as I've been alive (30 years), will anchor Mondays-Thursdays with Gillian Joseph (celebrating 25 years at Sky News this year) anchoring Fridays-Sundays. https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-to-launch-new-late-night-show-the-wrap-hosted-by-anna-botting-and-gillian-joseph-13496168 1
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted January 27 Author Posted January 27 United Kingdom It has just been announced that Carol Kirkwood, one of the BBC's longest-serving presenters, is leaving the Corporation in April after a 28-year run. She's been a weather presenter this whole time, but for the main weekday BBC Breakfast programme since 2010. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedwp8w1j24o?utm_sf_post_ref=660114051&at_link_id=A4FA1644-FB59-11F0-96F6-B671741A4992&at_campaign_type=owned&utm_sf_cserv_ref=228735667216&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_link_origin=BBC_News&at_format=image&at_campaign=Social_Flow&fbclid=IwY2xjawPlZLZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR6yR9LxLJcmNTcQVl4EBm2WIBKVdTFZxOj6uqcYpLGHttBGfEEprejtesYbUQ_aem_KkYtbzDp4aE1T-PACs-vEA
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 Australia Nine is splitting up its radio and TV assets. Nine will keep TV, obviously, but is getting out of the radio business by selling it to an 84-year-old billionaire pub owner with his company, Laundry Family Office, to take over 2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR (news/talkers), 2UE, Magic 1278, and 4BH (oldies stations) in a $56 million deal. SEN was considered the frontrunner, so it's kind of a shock they didn't get it. Nine will acquire QMS Media, a digital outdoor media platform (think of digital billboards), and it will sell NBN Television to WIN, thus converting it from a Nine regional O&O to a Nine affiliate. https://radiotoday.com.au/nines-radio-assets-sold-to-laundy-consortium-for-56-million/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 3 Author Posted February 3 United Kingdom Tuesday February 24th. Save that date... Because you'll be watching Sky One again. https://tvlive.site/sky-one-makes-a-bold-comeback/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 Spain ARTE is a French-German cultural channel. It looks like they may want to add Spain to that mix too. It looks like a new version of the channel, ARTE Espana, is coming in June in partnership with RTVE. https://www.elconstitucional.es/en/qtv/more-tv/rtve-negotiates-with-arte-for-its-new-cultural-channel-to-be-called-arte-spain_1606_102.html
trustno1 8 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 On 2/2/2026 at 6:52 PM, TheRolyPoly said: Australia Nine is splitting up its radio and TV assets. Nine will keep TV, obviously, but is getting out of the radio business by selling it to an 84-year-old billionaire pub owner with his company, Laundry Family Office, to take over 2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR (news/talkers), 2UE, Magic 1278, and 4BH (oldies stations) in a $56 million deal. SEN was considered the frontrunner, so it's kind of a shock they didn't get it. Nine will acquire QMS Media, a digital outdoor media platform (think of digital billboards), and it will sell NBN Television to WIN, thus converting it from a Nine regional O&O to a Nine affiliate. https://radiotoday.com.au/nines-radio-assets-sold-to-laundy-consortium-for-56-million/ That's actually "Laundy Family Office"
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 Spain I missed this, but this was three months ago. Angeles Blanco, a longtime news presenter at Informativos Telecinco, who has done virtually every shift you can think of for the network, from mornings and afternoons (with Isabel Jimenez, who's still there) to weekends (with Jose Ribagorda, since retired), but never the main 9pm slot, is finally getting her chance and is now on at 9pm every weeknight with Carlos Franganillo. What is a longtime, you may be asking? 34 years as of this year. She joined in 1993 when their news division was actually called (since it only had one news program at the time) Entre Hoy y Manana. It wouldn't adopt their current name, Informativos Telecinco, until 1997. She's also married to Vincente Valles, a former Telecinco news presenter himself who's been with Antena 3 Noticias since 2011, and the two met while working there.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 Canada The Weather Network is now live streaming on YouTube, as it has been since Friday. I believe this is the FAST (streaming) version of the channel, NOT the one you're used to seeing on Rogers, Bell, SaskTel, Videotron, Cogeco, and other providers.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 Australia Sky News Australia recently celebrated 30 years on the air. However, that name will no longer exist come later this year as it will finally sever all ties to Sky News UK and become News 24. They first though moved in to new headquarters in Sydney. https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/02/20/sky-news-australia-rebranding-as-news24/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 Australia He was well known for 15 years as presenter for ABC News Breakfast, but spend the last year or two as 7.30's national affairs reporter, and has spent nearly four decades at ABC. This Friday is Michael Rowland's last day at the Aunty ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/michael-rowland-to-leave-the-abc/106365868
LTSC1980 130 Posted February 24 Posted February 24 (edited) On 2/4/2026 at 1:35 AM, TheRolyPoly said: United Kingdom Tuesday February 24th. Save that date... Because you'll be watching Sky One again. https://tvlive.site/sky-one-makes-a-bold-comeback/ It’s back. Along with new channels logos for Sky channels. Edited February 24 by LTSC1980
MarkAnimates 40 Posted February 27 Posted February 27 Bosnia's public broadcaster BHRT is currently in crisis mode, as it warns of an imminent shutdown: https://n1info.ba/english/news/bhrt-airs-black-screen-today-instead-of-its-regular-program-warns-of-imminent-shutdown/ Yesterday, BHRT stopped all of its programming except for the news, where in its place was a message from BHRT themselves: Today, BHRT does not broadcast its regular program. Daily account freezes, including a million-euro freeze by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is due soon, clearly indicate the imminent end of BHRT. Political actors and competent institutions, in the absence of solutions and responsible action, are questioning the survival of the public service of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thereby simultaneously undermining the institutional and identity framework of the state. It is unknown at this point whether the broadcaster will continue further.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted March 2 Author Posted March 2 Australia Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr, 40 years together at TVW Seven Perth. Now, a feature piece on the two on The New York Times as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/media/anchors-rick-ardon-susannah-carr-perth-australia.html 1
SydneyCityTV 17 Posted March 4 Posted March 4 It's been a while since I logged into this place, but just on one of Australia's recent broadcast media happenings... On 2/2/2026 at 6:52 PM, TheRolyPoly said: Australia Nine is splitting up its radio and TV assets. Nine will keep TV, obviously, but is getting out of the radio business by selling it to an 84-year-old billionaire pub owner with his company, Laundry Family Office, to take over 2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR (news/talkers), 2UE, Magic 1278, and 4BH (oldies stations) in a $56 million deal. SEN was considered the frontrunner, so it's kind of a shock they didn't get it. Nine will acquire QMS Media, a digital outdoor media platform (think of digital billboards), and it will sell NBN Television to WIN, thus converting it from a Nine regional O&O to a Nine affiliate. I'll be rather interested to see if Nine retains some of NBN's current on-air talent after the Northern NSW station is offloaded to WIN. In particular, NBN News weekend presenter Jane Goldsmith who has not irregularly presented Nine's Late News and done the occasional Sydney-based fill-in gig aside from that during the past few years.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted March 26 Author Posted March 26 Spain (bull for Running of the Bulls in Pamplona) I should've posted this last week, but I was just too lazy. Yet, better late than never. Last week, after a six-year hiatus, Los Desayunos de RTVE made its triumphant return. It originally aired from 1994 until it went off-the-air in 2020. This time, its aired on Canal 24 Horas (TV), Radio 5 (Radio), and RTVE Play (streaming). In addition to Juan Ramón Lucas, director and presenter of Las Mañanas de RNE (on Radio Nacional), and Mamen Jiménez, director of economic news for the Spain-based EFE news agency, both co-hosting, one other host is very well known to the program and to Spanish journalism... Pepa Bueno. Yes, the same Pepa Bueno, who co-hosted the program for five years from 2004 to 2009 and is truly synonymous with the program, and also anchors the second edition of Telediario (9pm), is back on the program in a new partnership between RTVE and the EFE news agency. https://www.elconfidencial.com/television/programas-tv/2026-03-13/los-desayunos-vuelve-tve-pepa-bueno-juan-ramon-lucas-24horas_4319944/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted March 27 Author Posted March 27 Australia Once again, NEW Perth is bringing back their weekend early evening local news, and once again, it'll be Narelda Jacobs presenting the bulletin after a six-year hiatus in Sydney, and a three-year hiatus for the bulletin overall. Yes, she did present 10's Perth news during that time, but was mainly out ot Sydney from 2020 until 2023. https://www.paramountanz.com.au/news/narelda-jacobs-returns-to-perth-to-host-local-10-news-weekend-bulletin/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted March 28 Author Posted March 28 (Colombia; no... that's not the Telefe Argentina logo. Hahaha.) I've been a fan of Noticias Caracol as my preferred Colombian news source for almost the last 15 years (dating back to 2012). However, two of their longest-serving news presenters are OUT after being accused of alleged sexual harassment against female colleagues. Jorge Alfredo Vargas was the main weeknight co-anchor at 7:00 p.m. (Edicion Central) alongside a true legend, Maria Lucia Fernandez (who's anchored the weeknight 7:00 p.m. news since day one of Noticias Caracol in 1998 and even before then since 1995 when Caracol was just a production company, not a television network yet). Jorge Alfredo has been there since 2006, but is gone after 20 years, leaving Maria Lucia to anchor the newscast solo. Ricardo Orrego has been the main sports presenter at Caracol Television (Noticias Caracol, Gol Caracol, and their sports telecasts under the Caracol Sports banner + Blu Radio) since 2000. #MeTooColombia (sounds familiar?) and #YoTeCreoColega (#IBelieveYouColleague in English) are now trending on X and other social media platforms in Colombia as a result. (Article in Spanish via CNN en Español): https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/03/25/colombia/presentadores-cadena-noticias-acusaciones-orix
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 3 Author Posted April 3 Mexico TV Azteca has filed for bankruptcy. It looks like its facing lawsuits as well that's making it way through the courts. https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/tv-azteca-network-files-for-bankruptcy-facing-lawsuit 1
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