Sky to cut hundreds of UK jobs as broadcaster shifts focus News Sky, the Comcast-owned broadcaster, is set to cut around 900 jobs in the UK as it shifts its focus from new product launches to enhancing existing services and competing with US streaming giants. Around 600 roles are expected to go in the group’s operations, the FT first reported, with the remaining staff potentially redeployed, depending [...]
Exclusive: Business Live dropped from Sky News in ‘premium’ push Media Sky News has cancelled its daily Business Live news programme, leaving the channel without a stand-alone business programme for the first time since 2007, Morning Wire can reveal. The broadcaster’s top brass informed staff about the decision in a memo on Monday evening, telling editorial employees that the show “will not return to the TV [...]
‘Madness’: Sky News moves Ian King Live out of Square Mile Media Sky News’ flagship business programme, Ian King Live, has left its iconic Square Mile address, relocating to Sky Group’s headquarters in Osterley, Morning Wire has learned. The channel initially moved its business operations to 10 Fleet Place in September 2019, where it shared a studio with sister channel CNBC Europe. However, according to correspondence seen [...]