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Turn over to Liverpool's match.
Turn over to the film.
Turn over to Fox News.

Are they correct?
 

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In the US, you "change the channel" or "switch."

Can you switch it to the football game, please?
Could you change the channel to ESPN, please?
 

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They're fine in BE.
 

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If somebody asked me to "turn over to Fox news" I would leave the room.
 

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'Fox news'

That's even more of a contradiction in terms than 'military intelligence' or 'honest politician'.
 

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I know this is way off topic, but one of my favorite Fox News quotes is "Someday, I'd love to hear Obama say "Kids, don't eat yellow snow" just for the joy of seeing Fox News line up a panel of experts to extol the virtues of yellow snow."
 

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Turn over to Liverpool's match.
Turn over to the film.
Turn over to Fox News.

Are they correct?

In the UK, I think we'd just say "put".
Put the Liverpool match on.
etc
 

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In the UK, I think we'd just say "put".
Put the Liverpool match on.
etc

That would be appropriate if the TV was not currently switched on, but if you are specifically asking someone to change the channel on the TV from the current one to the one showing the Liverpool match, then I would go for "Turn over to ...".
 

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'Fox news'

That's even more of a contradiction in terms than 'military intelligence' or 'honest politician'.

I once got chased down the road by a street newspaper seller outside a local shopping centre for accusing him of flogging a contradiction in terms. He was selling "The Socialist Worker". ;-)
 

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I agree with Masood in that if I entered a room where the TV was already on, I would be at least as likely say "Could we put the news on, please?', as "Could we turn/change over to the news, please?".
 

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I once got chased down the road by a street newspaper seller outside a local shopping centre for accusing him of flogging a contradiction in terms. He was selling "The Socialist Worker". ;-)

I work, and I consider myself to be a socialist. ;-)
 

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I work, and I consider myself to be a socialist. ;-)

I should point out that I was about 13 at the time and still took everything said by my dad (a dyed-in-the-wool, Telegraph-reading True Blue) as gospel. I'm a little less judgemental these days!
 
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