Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

It's good that they were let loose a little bit with graphics yesterday.

Presentation wise it was back to the high quality of the past, rather than the bland graphics we have seen a lot in the past.

I haven't missed the glass box at all and I don't think the screen there would cut it for an election night.

If they used that studio for Election night I suspect they'd make full use of the atrium and that would probably look quite good.

Of course though they plan to have another studio for evening coverage so that ciuld end up being used on Election night.

Screen in the new studio is much smaller than the old one.

The Times Square studio backdrop was IMO much nicer than coming from Osterley for this.

Last nights coverage coming from the box instead of the NY studio would have been awful. The box is way too clinical for a big event. The dull colours and the clinical nature of it would think you are going to a formal meeting rather than an important day in News, I'd have felt so disconnected.

Probably the first bit of light hearted fun from the glass box this morning.

awks... especially that pause before the weather advert...

They have some Christmas trees.....

Underneath the studio is a promo area for whatever is flavour of the month at Sky - VR, Boxsets, whatever else. At the moment it's the Sky Cinema Christmas campaign. So intended less for on screen, more that you see it on screen.

One thing that has slightly perplexed me in regards to the new studio is why they ended up replacing the glass on the desk with a different piece that contains a cut-out for the screens beneath - all throughout the pilots the glass was one entire piece, with the screens still underneath and obviously visible, but in time for launch it was swapped out with something that doesn't look so good. The BBC, ITV et al all manage with having the screens entirely beneath glass, so is there any reason Sky News couldn't here? I notice on YouTube there's a video of the set build of the Sky Sports News HQ studio, and whilst on screen today the glass again has a cutout for the screens, you can see in the video that originally it was one piece of glass with screens below, so this was also changed late on.

Glare from the lighting and also from the big screen I would suspect.

Out of interest, what happens to the large screen if there is a royal death?

Do they show a union flag, or turn it off etc.