Virgin Media Television remains committed to public service broadcasting and will continue to invest in our news and current affairs output. However, due to challenging market conditions and the fact that our ask of government to financially support our public service content has not been met, we have been forced to make the difficult decision to reduce The Tonight Show weekly output.
The show will air each Tuesday and Wednesday at 10pm as we continue to evolve our current affairs offering. A further instalment of the newsroom's documentary series will be broadcast on Monday, focusing on the US presidential election, presented by news correspondent Richard Chambers.
Cutting the popular programme in half will be seen as a political decision by station management given that the general election is expected on November 29. The Tonight Show is one of the most viewed current-affairs programmes, which is popular with politicians.
#virgin-media-television #public-service-broadcasting #current-affairs #the-tonight-show #news-reduction
Collection
[
|
...
]