{"id":19523,"date":"2017-03-01T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globallistings.info\/es\/sony-acquires-trutv-uk\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:29:34","slug":"sony-trutv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/sony-trutv\/","title":{"rendered":"SONY ACQUIRES TRUTV UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for fans of TruTV UK \u2013 Turner\u2019s free-to-air channel has been saved from the brink of closure by a surprise buy-out by Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n<p>The channel launched in 2014 on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin airing a mix of true crime and US reality shows, but despite acquiring top-rated shows such as America\u2019s Got Talent, Ink Master and talk show Conan, it has struggled to win viewers in a competitive market. Turner had been seeking a buyer since announcing the channel might have to close last December.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s fairly unusual for a US media giant to take on channels from a rival, Kate Marsh, \u200eSony Pictures Television\u2019s Executive Vice President, Western Europe, International Networks, said the acquisition would be, \u201ca great complement to our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for fans of TruTV UK \u2013 Turner\u2019s free-to-air channel has been saved from the brink of closure by a surprise buy-out by Sony Pictures Television. The channel launched in 2014 on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin airing a mix of true crime and US reality shows, but despite acquiring top-rated shows such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globallistings.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}