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London Terror Incidents

lxflyer posted:
AlexS posted:
Shaun Ley is about the last person I'd want on air in this situation, he always comes across as though he thinks people are watching because of him and not the content, and not in a good way.

Very unfair comment I think - he is an excellent broadcaster on both television and radio.

Quite... An utterly groundless comment about one of the most-self-effacing network broadcasters with whom I've ever worked. Dozens of BBC colleagues would tell you the same.


And before anyone jumps in to ask if anyone else is allowed to have an opinion... yes, you are... but those of us who actually know and have worked with these people are also entitled to inform you when you're objectively wrong.
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London Terror Incidents

Have to give a mention to my colleague and friend Nick Stylianou, who is not only relaying pix from the scene, but also conducting on-the-ground interviews with a calmness and articulacy that belies his lack of on-air experience.
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London Terror Incidents

Inspector Sands posted:
Skygeek posted:

In which case, slap on the wrist to you for having done that then, but I stand by the rest of what I said. At least - to your minor credit - you waited until the next day. Anyone who thinks like that WHILE something like this is going on needs to re-evaluate themselves.

and to follow up on your other assertion, I'm not in a newsroom but I am involved in the coverage

It still wasn't and isn't funny.
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London Terror Incidents

Inspector Sands posted:
alexhb01 posted:
mapperuo posted:
BBC news have reporter live on the ground. Sky live also but no reporter yet. ITV are showing footie.


Pretty disgraceful on behalf of the BBC. CNN even have a reporter on scene from what I'm seeing.

You need to re-read what you're quoting!

In which case, slap on the wrist to you for having done that then, but I stand by the rest of what I said. At least - to your minor credit - you waited until the next day. Anyone who thinks like that WHILE something like this is going on needs to re-evaluate themselves.
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London Terror Incidents

AlexS posted:
TellyFan posted:
Kay Burley now in the back of a taxi putting lipstick on.

Source?

Same idiot - and yes, I am using that word - made a tasteless joke at Kay's expense during the Manchester situation. Excuses were made that it was trench humour designed to get us through.


To that person, I say this: You're almost certainly not in a newsroom right now, and we're still in the midst of an unfolding situation. Have the decency to keep quiet.

Oh, and your assertion was factually wrong.
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Kiffer posted:
I've just tuned into Sky News for the first time in about a year and I have to say, it's a shadow of its former self. It looks and feels very much like one of those low budget African news channels found in the 800s on the Sky EPG.

The title and headline music is really naff and old fashioned. They haven't properly updated the music for 12 years and it shows.

The top-of-the-hour intro looks like a TV Forum mock. Actually, no - I've seen far better work in the Mocks forum.

The studio with its journalists and cameramen in the background has largely been replaced by a hugely ugly and echoey glass box which appears to look out onto an empty regional airport terminal.

It used to be the channel which set the bar. It even hides its HD feed behind a paywall - so the vast majority of viewers who don't pay a monthly Sky subscription - like me - have to watch it in old school SD.

So what the hell has happened to Sky News? Any Sky insiders know if Sky News is ever going to sort itself out or just decline into nothing like the ITV News Channel did?

I can exclusively reveal that we plan to continue being just as rubbish as you think we are,, perhaps even moreso. After all, it's what we go to work every day to do!


In case it's not clear, I'm kidding!
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Good Morning Britain

Lukeyboy posted:
BroadcastWales posted:
TVFan2017 posted:
2nd time in the GMB Studio newsreading...

This was his first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqi9KtPIKgA

He's definitely been in the studio twice before, I'm certain today is his third time.


Yes in deed he was. He was in the studio at the end of August and at the end of December in 2015.

How much you wanna bet HE remembers the specifics of that?!
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Newsroom24 posted:
In the last few weeks I've noticed them using the space a little more on screen (e.g. interviewing some first time voters in an informal area just off screen) which I thought worked pretty well.

While I can imagine that it is easy to say, but a lot harder to do in reality, I really like the glass box but I wish that more use was made of the rest of the building for smaller features. As Skygeek said, I probably feel this way because of how the BBC use the space, but it would be nice to have prehaps a touch screen TV on one of the balconies (like the BBC do with Outside Source) and for Sky to be able to use it to present a programme or feature from.

Maybe this isn't the purpose of the building, but I do think it is a shame if that is the case for them not to have designed it in a way which would make it easier to broadcast (on a small scale) from outside the box a bit more.

If you like the way Outside Source is done, you'll certainly like one element of what we'll be doing. That's all I'll say for now.
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

I don't think I'm speaking out-of-turn when I say you couldn't make it happen in Sky Central reception on seven months' notice, let alone seven weeks.

Quite aside from mucking up a great many people's working day, that area isn't designed for broadcast on anything more than a portable camera, and that's before we've even addressed the technical infrastructure of recording, relaying and presenting the results.

I speak as somebody who's been doing just that at rehearsals today. (Blink and you might miss me a week from tonight!)

People seem to have got it into their heads - probably thanks to the BBC's setup - that the area under the glass box was either designed to be or could yet be a working newsroom. It simply isn't, and given the investment that's being made over at Sky Studios, won't be for the remotely-foreseeable future.

That said, I don't think (most of) you will be disappointed by what you see in a week's time!
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

aconnell posted:
mapperuo posted:
This brings up an interesting question I have. How far do Sky/BBC go to ensure no bias? Do they count to the second the amount of time spent on a Labour VT vs Tory etc?


Ofcom & 'due impartiality'

Quote:
So “due impartiality” does not mean an equal division of time has to be given to every view, or that every argument and every facet of every argument has to be represented.


https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/section-five-due-impartiality-accuracy

Hey, don't I know you from somewhere? Wink
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

London Lite posted:
I think the admin office used is where NOW TV is based.

That's actually a different one altogether.
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

freddied056 posted:
Skygeek posted:
globaltraffic24 posted:

Understandable. Damn election! A quick question Skygeek on last night's debate show. I take it the new studio will be based in the Sky News branded building we saw the exterior of last night? A few close-ups suggested it's kitted out for staff but not in use by them yet.

No, that's an administrative building, actually, and the sign was just a bit of set dressing.


The new newsroom (and a small-ish studio) will be in the Sky Studios building (the one you saw May and Corbyn walking into last night), but the vast majority of studio output will still come from the glass box.

Aren't sunrise and NAT coming from the new studio

I'm not at liberty to discuss specific plans with regard to output, which is why I've kept what I've said very generic.