Sky puts its money where its mouth is, pledging billions to secure Coronation Street and Love Island as it closes in on a takeover of ITV's channels. But with Sky's own parent company announcing a split this week, what does it all mean for Sky News? TV critic and producer Steven D Wright weighs up the deal.
Also on the show: Radio 4's Today programme is being told to put TikTok before its own airwaves. Is the nation's most trusted news alarm clock about to lose its edge? And with the Guardian announcing dozens of new digital jobs of its own, freelance media journalist Tara Conlan - who writes for the Guardian amongst others - on an industry that can't stop chasing the feed.
All that plus: the Telegraph finally gets a permanent owner, the Culture Secretary takes aim at another media mega-merger... and, in the Audio Network Media Quiz, we open the boxes on the week's biggest deals.
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What The Media Club has been reading this week:
Sky's £2bn Pledge As It Preps ITV Takeover
Comcast To Split Off NBCUniversal And Sky
Today Programme Told To Prioritise TikTok Over Radio
Guardian To Create 55 New Digital Jobs
Trevor Nelson Takes A Break From Broadcasting
Zoe Ball Bags Daily Show On Greatest Hits Radio
Expectation Hires Mettlemouse's Katrina Grant
Mill Media Wins Costly Source Protection Battle
Telegraph Sale To Axel Springer Completes
Nandy Minded To Refer Paramount/WBD Deal