Ita joins Studio 10 exodus. Ten’s Studio 10 has taken another hit, with the network announcing Tuesday that one of the morning show’s founding hosts Ita Buttrose was leaving.

Buttrose’s last show was yesterday, and she made a point of saying she had resigned before Jessica Rowe, who abruptly left the program for family reasons in March. Executive producer Rob McKnight left in December — he told staff in an email he had a breakdown and Ten had sacked him.

The program has been the subject of continued gossip about tension between hosts over recent months, including a story that Buttrose was on the receiving end of a Brussels sprout thrown at her by fellow host Denise Drysdale.

In a statement, Buttrose said she was leaving the program to focus on writing and her grandchildren.

Journalist’s killer jailed for life. The Danish inventor who murdered Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine has been sentenced to life in a Danish jail without parole. Peter Madsen murdered and then dismembered Wall while she was on his homemade submarine with him, interviewing him for a story. Her body was found 11 days later, in August last year.

Copenhagen City Court judge Anette Burkoe and two jurors found Madsen guilty after a trial. Burkoe said in her judgement: “We are talking about a cynical and planned sexual assault and brutal murder of a random woman, who in connection with her journalistic work had accepted an offer to go sailing in the defendant’s submarine.”

Daily Tele’s flashback. The Daily Telegraph marked Anzac Day yesterday with a special throw-back, broadsheet-size front page.

Guardian breaks even. Another glimmer of hope for legacy media with Guardian News & Media (GNM), the UK-based publisher of The Guardian and Observer newspapers again proving that it can revamp itself as it halved its operating loss in the year to March and looks to break even in 2018-19. Cost cuts (such as moving to tabloid-sized printing), and a fourfold jump in the number of readers paying to support the company, more than offset the continuing slump in print ads.

On top of this strong support there were solid contributions from Australia and the US website editions which saw GNM report a £19 million loss for the year to March this year, half the £38 million loss in 2016-17. The publisher says it has now cut losses to a third of the £57 million reported two years ago which forced the company to sack close to 300 journalists and others (and then sack staff in the US) as the drive to save the business started.

More than 800,000 people now financially support The Guardian, up 200,000 from a year ago. — Glenn Dyer

Comcast’s Sky control bid. Comcast, the giant US cable, film and TV company, has stuck it to the Murdoch family’s ambitions to control Sky Plc in the UK and then sell it to Disney as part of the US$66 billion break up of 21st Century Fox. Comcast, which revealed its ambitions for Sky in February has now firmed that up to a $31 billion bid ($4 billion more than Fox’s bid).

Comcast’s offer means there are now three US-based companies trying to control Sky — Fox with its offer, Comcast, and Disney, which has said it will buy Sky News if the Fox bid strikes trouble. The Murdoch family already controls three major UK papers — The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times. Likewise, if Disney gets control of Sky News as part of the carve-up of Fox in the US, the Murdoch Family Trust will be the largest shareholder in Disney, with a 5% holding.

In less than a week, UK regulators are due to decide whether to approve the Fox offer (and the Disney assist). — Glenn Dyer

Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings. Seven easily won Tuesday night, thanks to the AFL and MKR, but last night it was closer. Nine topped total viewers and Seven topped the main channels in the metros. The ABC beat Ten into third, with the finales of Hard Quiz (794,000 nationally) and Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (768,000 nationally) standing out. Without Bachelor in Paradise, Ten had nothing of interest and its 7.9% metro main channel share confirmed that. Fortunately MasterChef starts Monday week.

MKR grabbed 1.69 million national viewers, The Voice, 1.21 million. Seven news topped the night with 1.90 million, boosted by the Collingwood-Essendon Anzac Day game in the AFL. The St George NRL game didn’t give Nine the same boost and there was a 550,000 winning margin for Seven News nationally over Nine News (1.35 million).

In regional markets Seven News led the night with 586,000 people, followed by MKR with 551,000, Seven news/Today Tonight with 484,000, Home and Away with 433,000 and Nine News was 5th with 379,000. Read the rest on the Crikey website.