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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards




NOW WITH WORKING VIDEO LINK!

And with that, I'm off to attempt sleep!
news junkie and Rkolsen gave kudos
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards



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Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

London Lite posted:
Sky seems to have gone into the weekend/Bank Holiday pattern of scheduling on election day.

6-10: Sunrise with Jonathan Samuels and Claudia-Liza Armah
10-2: Stephen Dixon
2-5: Sam Naz

That would be because of deployments elsewhere tonight.
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Rkolsen posted:
I like it. It's nice and simple. Are the stack of 8'screens behind the desk the ones that were typically up on top of the second level? Looks like an attempt to block off the gallery.

While I can't speak to whether the monitors came from upstairs, I can say they're more than just set dressing.


Every quadrant of each monitor will - at one point or another - have live incoming video from constituency counts. Supervisors with earpieces will be patrolling the studio floor and will - for example - tap me on the shoulder and say: "Feed 216... Sunderland South". I then bash that into my special keypad to get it up on my own TV and await the result declaration through my headphones, which I then hastily enter into our software system to get it on-screen ASAP.

It's a bit of a tightrope, so please cross your fingers for me and the team. We aim to do you proud!
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

James Vertigan posted:
Skygeek posted:
My desk is in the corner by Lewis' elbow in the bottom pic. Take a drink every time you see me.


We shall expect a "Hi TVForum" sign to be visible tomorrow evening then! Laughing

If so, I shall expect a P45 on Friday afternoon!
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

My desk is in the corner by Lewis' elbow in the bottom pic. Take a drink every time you see me. Last one standing gets a tour of the new newsroom when it opens!

(... and if my bosses are reading this... I'm kidding!)
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Yes, the desk on the right of that photo will be home to Lewis Goodall (context specialist) and Ed Conway (numbers specialist), giving Ed the ability to jump up when necessary and hop over to the big screen.

The touchscreen to the left of the desk will relay social media updates, fronted by Jayne Secker, and the rows of desks behind Adam will be home to our psephologist, Prof Michael Thrasher, and the results team (including me).

We hope the simple but visually-compelling set-up will rival and excel all the VR whizz-bangery and Jeremy Vine-ness on other channels.
Last edited by Skygeek on 7 June 2017 8:48pm
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London Terror Incidents

mannewskev posted:
London Lite posted:
mannewskev posted:

If ITV could manage it for Saturday's attack, they should have done so for Manchester. There is no justification in them not doing so. They are the country's biggest commercial PSB.


At least come up with another reason that just being a PSB! In any case, the UK's main PSB dedicated hours upon hours of rolling news on BBC1 and the BBC News channel, but you still wanted ITV to waste resources on a rolling news programme when viewers had a selection of rolling news output elsewhere. Being the second biggest PSB isn't a justifiable excuse in 2017, especially when the story didn't break until late night on a Saturday when ITV viewers are more likely to be gamblers.


It's reason enough. Being the country's biggest commercial PSB is justification. Also, Manchester didn't break late on a Saturday night, it was late on a Monday night. On Saturday, ITV did what it should have done, for Manchester, it did not. For 7 and a half hours.

I happen to agree with you overall, but what rotation are we on now in this entirely-circular discussion?
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

EastEngland posted:
IT wasn't a complaint, just an observation.

Fair enough - actually, it was the "real vs. fake news" argument that tickled me most!
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

TROGGLES posted:
Skygeek posted:
EastEngland posted:
Tamara Cowen has a very very old Sky News Umbrella with this logo!

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*sings Rihanna*


This week, we're going to have a big election
Back in the old newsroom studio's direction.
So, get your priorities together, fella.
We've bigger things to worry 'bout than an umbrella -ella-ella! [etc]

Attention to detail is the difference between real and fake news. If they cant get the right logo on screen why believe anything else.

I'd argue the more important attention to detail is making sure the correspondent doesn't get soaked on-screen... after all, what purer form of presentation is there?


ETA: The difference between real and fake news - and therefore the quality of the journalism - is whether we have a current logo on our umbrellas?

Well done, many have tried, but I actually have no words!
Last edited by Skygeek on 5 June 2017 12:33pm - 3 times in total
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

EastEngland posted:
Tamara Cowen has a very very old Sky News Umbrella with this logo!

*

*sings Rihanna*


This week, we're going to have a big election
Back in the old newsroom studio's direction.
So, get your priorities together, fella.
We've bigger things to worry 'bout than an umbrella -ella-ella! [etc]
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London Terror Incidents

Jon posted:
newsman1 posted:
mannewskev posted:

It wasn't so far into the night that fatalities were reported in Manchester and the terror aspect was clarified, yet ITV did nothing.


Last night's incident was different not just because it wasn't clear whether or not the incident was ongoing but also because of the fact that it took place in the UK's capital city, i.e. proximity to government buildings.

I don't agree with this if anything it's slightly less of news story because it happened in the capital, because people expect things to happen there. There wasn't the same callous targeting a specific set of victims. It has however evil as I said before you can't compare these things each one is a tragedy.


ITV/ITN were probably more ready this time with Manchester fresh in the minds and as you said it took a while to work out was happening in Manchester. However there may be some institutional bias and bigger sense of urgently as the news organisations are based in London. But in the long run this it's a not as big a story.

That and a straight-up lack of resource.


Question, though... because I do think some of the criticism of ITV not getting on-air soon enough after Manchester was at least partially-valid... (though I thought they did alright last night given their limited resources)

Is there a precedent for an ITV regional newsroom providing a network flash? Surely, given the timing of the arena atrocity, the late news team up there would still have been in the building (albeit putting their coats on), and they could have stuck someone - anyone - in the presenter's chair to throw to a reporter for a two-2-3 minute summary of what was going on before trailing ahead to 6am and signing off, and sod it if the viewers weren't familiar with who they saw. Or is it just me?