Sputnik (TV programme)

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Sputnik
Genre	News and current affairs
Created by	Associated Press
Presented by	George Galloway, Gayatri Galloway
Production
Production location	London
Original release
Network	RT
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Sputnik: Orbiting the world with George Galloway was a weekly television programme on RT UK presented by broadcaster George Galloway and his wife Gayatri. It was produced by Global Media Services, a subsidiary of the American news agency Associated Press.^[1] The series began its run on 16 November 2013, but was off-air because of the 2015 general election between 28 March 2015 (71) and 16 May 2015 (72).^{[citation needed]}

In March 2021 the show was co-hosted by James Giles for six weeks.^[2] The programme covered world affairs with expert guests in conversation with the programme's hosts. It usually covered two separate stories; one in each half of the 30-minute slot.

Following the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ofcom revoked RT's UK broadcasting licence "with immediate effect" on 18 March 2022 after concluding the outlet was not "fit and proper" or a "responsible broadcaster"; thus, Galloway's program came to an end.^[3]