Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Bloomberg, BBC World News, CNN International, Sky News, Fox News and MSNBC going with live coverage of the Murdock mess from 12:00 today.


Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) just changed today's (Tuesday) schedule, with the 24 hour business news channel that plans to bring viewers Murdock's Mess - live coverage from Rupert Murdock's testimony before Britain's parliament today. Viewers will be able to tune in to Bloomberg Television (from 12:00 Tuesday, South African time) for comprehensive coverage of Murdoch's Mess .

WRITE THROUGH: Bloomberg Television (DStv 411), BBC World News (DStv 400 / TopTV 400), CNN International (DStv 401), Sky News (DStv 402), Fox News (TopTV 405) and MSNBC (TopTV 410) will all be going with live coverage from 12:00 today (South African time) of the testimony of Rupert Murdock, chairperson of news Corp, his son James Murdock and Rebekah Brooks before the British parliament later today.

All of these news channels have now confirmed that they will be covering the testimony live today, without indicating limitations on duration.

UPDATE Tuesday 19 July 10:00 - CNBC Africa (DStv 410) tells me the Africa business channel will switch to the CNBC UK feed from 15:30 (South African time) with live coverage of the Murdock testimony. CNBC Africa will however revert back to its normal African programming with Regional Roundup at 16:00.