TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 3 Author Posted April 3 On 1/27/2026 at 4:33 AM, TheRolyPoly said: 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 This week, on Wednesday, she said goodbye after her 28-year run with the BBC. This was the last 20 minutes of this past Wednesday's BBC Breakfast programme.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 13 Author Posted April 13 United Kingdom A new set for ITV News on Westcountry Television. It looks amazing and if that's what ITV's future regional news sets will look like, then I'll be intrigued as to how it will be interpreted everywhere else.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 13 Author Posted April 13 (edited) Canada LIVE from New York, its Saturday Night! on CTV. For the the first time in decades, SNL is leaving Global in favor of CTV. EDIT: I read that it'll simulcast on both NBC and CTV, so I wonder what CTV will do with their 11pm news hour on Saturdays since they air local news at 11:30pm in three markets plus thr 11pm CTV National News. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/saturday-night-live-canada-1236562610/ Edited April 13 by TheRolyPoly
TVLurker 389 Posted April 13 Posted April 13 my god Corus is in such poor shape. I wonder if they're going to sell stuff soon...
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 18 Author Posted April 18 Australia After a wonderful 24-year run at the Nine Network, which includes TCN Sydney, Georgie Gardner has left the building for the last time. 1
MarkAnimates 40 Posted April 21 Posted April 21 Ireland's RTE Radio 1 has unveiled new jingles created by Wisebuddah and recorded by the RTE Concert Orchestra:
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 23 Author Posted April 23 Slovenia You can now count on RTV Slovenia as list of broadcasters not showing the Eurovision Song Contest this year due to Isarel's participation in the event. Instead, it will air reports and documentaries on Palestine. This is from a report from ITV News: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXfKaocjE9o/?igsh=a2pjZzZxNGFhZGRt
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 24 Author Posted April 24 Canada CPAC has canceled their two flagship programs, Primetime Politics (English) and L'Essentiel (French). Revenue declines and a slow rollout of CRTC's Online Streaming Act are to blame. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cpac-program-staffing-cuts-9.7172425
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 26 Author Posted April 26 Canada Get a good look at CTV.ca and Noovo.ca right now because by next Friday, May 1st, the websites and apps will be going bye bye in favor of Crave, its streaming platform. https://www.bellmedia.ca/advertising-sales/resources/news/ctv-and-noovo-content-moves-to-crave/
TheNewsTV 342 Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Brazil TV Globo today debuted a new studio for its national morning news program, "Bom Dia Brasil." The studio now features a large screen and virtual projections displaying images from the newsroom.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 29 Author Posted April 29 Canada Two notes from the same station, CHCH-TV 11. Longtime anchor Dan McLean, the man with that signature voice, has died at 78. https://www.chch.com/chch-news/longtime-chch-anchor-dan-mclean-dies-at-78/ After 40 years at the station, and 21 years anchoring Morning Live, Annette Hamm is retiring. June 19th, 2026 will be her last day. https://www.chch.com/chch-news/morning-lives-annette-hamm-to-retire-after-nearly-40-years-with-chch/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 3 Author Posted May 3 Spain (Running of the Bulls, that's why) Not a broadcaster, but possibly the Martin Lambie-Nairn (and much more) of Spain, José María Cruz Novillo, the Spanish sculptor, painter, and designer, has passed away at the age of 89. In terms of broadcasting, he designed the current logo of one of Spain's national newspapers El Mundo (The World), the current logo of the radio network Cadena COPE (COPE Network), the first-ever logo of Antena 3 (first in radio in 1982, later defunct in 1994, and then used for television in 1990), and the TVE1 eyeball logo from 1982-1989. https://en.ara.cat/culture/jose-maria-cruz-novillo-dies-the-artist-who-designed-post-franco-spain_1_5725121.html
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 Germany (I'm on my laptop. The Windows emojis don't contain country emojis, whereas my phone's Samsung Galaxy does, which is why there's no country emoji here). Starting in January 2027, public broadcasters ARD and ZDF will be jointly operating their cable/satellite channels, instead of each having its own, to streamline their operations. The channels going away on December 31st, 2026: ARD-alpha, a channel that broadcasts educational programmes including science, religion, music, philosophy, literature, language learning, art, and culture. Some of the programs come from ARD's regional broadcaster in Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), as well as from Austria's national broadcaster, ORF. Tagesschau24, ARD's 24-hour national news network. The channel is managed by ARD's regional broadcaster in Hamburg, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). One, which concentrates on entertainment, and the channel's content is very largely made up of repeat broadcasts of programmes already shown on other ARD channels, national and regional: this includes cinema and television films, drama series, documentaries, reports, magazines, and music programmes (especially rock and pop). This channel is managed by ARD's regional broadcaster in Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The channels that will survive and rebrand starting January 1st, 2027: Phoenix, which will become the main news channel for both ARD and ZDF, replacing Tagesschau24 on the ARD side. ARD and WDR will manage this channel. ZDFneo, which will become simply Neo, a channel for young adults, replacing ARD's One. ZDF will manage this channel. ZDFinfo, which will become simply Info, a documentary channel, replacing ARD-alpha. ZDF will manage this channel as well. Other television channels such as Arte (German feed), 3sat (led by ZDF), and KiKA (led by ARD and its regional broadcaster in Leipzig, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)), as well as the streaming service Funk (led by ARD and its regional broadcaster in Stuttgart, Südwestrundfunk (SWR)), will remain as is since they're already operating jointly. Some of this information I got from Wikipedia. https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2026/03/04/ard-and-zdf-to-close-linear-tv-channels-under-reform-treaty/
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 14 Author Posted May 14 Australia After a six-and-a-half year absence, Sports Tonight is coming back home to Network 10, this time as a segment on 10's Late News. It begins next week on the 25th of May with Max Burford and Adrian Franklin. This is the third time the program will be aired on Network 10's airwaves, having first done so from 1993-2011, which gave us the legendary Tim Webster and Leigh Diffey (yes, the same one you now see and hear on NBC Sports today), and then again briefly in 2018 and 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd.in%2FgtQBDZN8&urlhash=HDNq&mt=fnOh_ocMujx1PRMYdp_AiLqa0z3ad0mCC737vxsIXsb_8xqJeOb6pnyJupgllhOGKCR6bLLbTMi1qjAVd-NA6xswrG6kTxnMcFCPlqUDqNduvAcv8tdAk-p5gA&isSdui=true
mre29 1967 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Bad link. Please try again....preferably without the detour through LinkedIn's URL cruft.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 15 Author Posted May 15 Oh god. Ugh. I'm so sorry about that. Here's a better one from TVTonight Australia: https://tvtonight.com.au/2026/05/sports-tonight-returns-to-10-late-news.html 1
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 16 Author Posted May 16 (edited) Canada Céline Galipeau, who in 2009 took over the weeknight anchoring duties for the legendary Bernard Derome (who anchored the program twice in his own right) on Le Téléjournal on ICI Radio-Canada Télé, is expected to step down from anchoring the program in favor of hosting a new international news program for ICI RDI. She'll anchor her last Telejournal on June 18th and then start her new show in September, which will air Friday nights on ICI RDI. Currently, there's no word as to who will replace her on the flagship broadcast. Galipeau has been with Radio-Canada since 1984, 42 years now, and has done Le Téléjournal for 17 of those years. Speculation: I can see Claudine Bourbonnais, anchor of the weekend Téléjournal, getting the main weeknight gig, if she wants it. (French, but I translated the most important details above): https://www.7jours.ca/2026/05/05/apres-17-ans-celine-galipeau-quittera-le-telejournal Edited May 16 by TheRolyPoly 1
SydneyCityTV 17 Posted May 17 Posted May 17 On 5/15/2026 at 7:15 AM, TheRolyPoly said: Australia After a six-and-a-half-year absence, Sports Tonight is coming back home to Network 10, this time as a segment on 10's Late News. It begins next week on the 25th of May with Max Burford and Adrian Franklin. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if even the standalone program expected to run during the FIFA World Cup period won't be quite enough to stop Ten slipping into 5th place behind SBS at that point in time! On 5/15/2026 at 7:15 AM, TheRolyPoly said: the legendary Tim Webster ...who can now be heard presenting Breakfast on 2SM: The Sydney commercial radio station with a dubious distinction of being the only one not to participate in radio ratings surveys for more than two decades! Interestingly enough, Tim Webster took over 2SM Breakfast from another ex-Ten presenter in Ron Wilson (who after defecting from top rating music station Smooth 95.3 where he was a newsreader for ages, only lasted six months!) but that's for another time and topic. On 5/15/2026 at 7:15 AM, TheRolyPoly said: ...and then again briefly in 2018 and 2019. Which was a more panel-based format with analysis and commentary, as opposed to being an extended version of a news bulletin's Sport segment. Perhaps the revived Sports Tonight might find a niche amongst hard-core sports followers, but I have a feeling the original format (which the new version is expected to be closer to than the 2018/19 incarnation) might be considered somewhat redundant in this day and age. 1
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 17 Author Posted May 17 2 hours ago, SydneyCityTV said: Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if even the standalone program expected to run during the FIFA World Cup period won't be quite enough to stop Ten slipping into 5th place behind SBS at that point in time! ...who can now be heard presenting Breakfast on 2SM: The Sydney commercial radio station with a dubious distinction of being the only one not to participate in radio ratings surveys for more than two decades! Interestingly enough, Tim Webster took over 2SM Breakfast from another ex-Ten presenter in Ron Wilson (who after defecting from top rating music station Smooth 95.3 where he was a newsreader for ages, only lasted six months!) but that's for another time and topic. Which was a more panel-based format with analysis and commentary, as opposed to being an extended version of a news bulletin's Sport segment. Perhaps the revived Sports Tonight might find a niche amongst hard-core sports followers, but I have a feeling the original format (which the new version is expected to be closer to than the 2018/19 incarnation) might be considered somewhat redundant in this day and age. What a great post for an explanation. Thank you! 1
LTSC1980 130 Posted May 17 Posted May 17 (edited) Spain RTVE, one of the broadcasters that had boycotted the Eurovision 2026, had aired the statement regarding why they decided not to broadcast the show before the newscast ‘Telediairo’, at same day the Grand Final begins. https://www.esc-plus.com/rtve-broadcasts-a-message-in-defense-of-human-rights-in-palestine-at-the-start-of-the-eurovision-2026-grand-final/ This year the show was overshadowed with Israeli participation, with five broadcasters boycotting the show: RUV in Iceland RTE in Ireland AVROTROS in the Netherlands RTV SLO in Slovenia RTVE in Spain The Netherlands and Iceland would broadcast the show, but the former was broadcast via NOS in NPO1. The Netherlands has its unique public broadcasting system. Other broadcasters choose not to broadcast at all. Edited May 17 by LTSC1980
trustno1 8 Posted May 21 Posted May 21 On 5/18/2026 at 8:38 AM, LTSC1980 said: Spain RTVE, one of the broadcasters that had boycotted the Eurovision 2026, had aired the statement regarding why they decided not to broadcast the show before the newscast ‘Telediairo’, at same day the Grand Final begins. https://www.esc-plus.com/rtve-broadcasts-a-message-in-defense-of-human-rights-in-palestine-at-the-start-of-the-eurovision-2026-grand-final/ This year the show was overshadowed with Israeli participation, with five broadcasters boycotting the show: RUV in Iceland RTE in Ireland AVROTROS in the Netherlands RTV SLO in Slovenia RTVE in Spain The Netherlands and Iceland would broadcast the show, but the former was broadcast via NOS in NPO1. The Netherlands has its unique public broadcasting system. Other broadcasters choose not to broadcast at all. I'd probably think that Spain, Ireland and Slovenia didn't broadcast the result either.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted May 26 Author Posted May 26 Canada The upcoming season, season 28, of BIG Brother on CBS... will be the last season ever aired on Global. Global is moving on from this show after having carried it since its 2000 series premiere. https://globalnews.ca/news/11863358/big-brother-season-28-last-to-air-on-global/ 1
MarkAnimates 40 Posted Saturday at 09:33 PM Posted Saturday at 09:33 PM Romania's music channel ZU TV (a sister to Radio ZU) will be shut down on June 15th. In its place will be the new channel Chefi.ro, which is basically the Romanian Food Network (if you don't count the one channel bearing the Food Network branding already). https://www.paginademedia.ro/stiri-media/zu-tv-se-inchide-antena-lanseaza-o-noua-televiziune-22458846
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted Tuesday at 01:15 AM Author Posted Tuesday at 01:15 AM Middle East Comcast's Sky Group is pulling out of its news venture for Sky News Arabia. The name will remain as is, though editorial decisions will no longer come from the Sky Group from now on. https://thedesk.net/2026/06/comcasts-sky-exits-middle-east-news-venture/
LTSC1980 130 Posted yesterday at 04:21 AM Posted yesterday at 04:21 AM (edited) Australia Job cuts in NBN after WIN takeover https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2026/06/02/win-axes-nbn-news-weekend-bulletins-in-major-schedule-overhaul/ Edited yesterday at 04:26 AM by LTSC1980 1
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