Fire alarm at Sky News

Is Sky Sports News generally pre recorded at 11pm?

Fire Alarm must still be going off. Has been around 35mins now.

If I recall, SSN and Sky News newsrooms are in the same building one floor apart from each other?

It will take a long time to sweep Sky Studios which is a four storey building with many technical areas and risers. It may take even longer to put out a fire, heaven forbid.

I'm fairly sure they wouldn't have to sweep the entire building for a fire. They'd be able to see the approximate area of the activation from the control panel.

I'd guess that either there is a fire, or there is a fault that can't currently be resolved.

Correct. SSN newsroom and the (current, pandemic) gallery is on level 1. Sky News newsroom and galleries are on level 2.

Not typically. It is on occasion, but not if football matches are finishing after 10pm like they did tonight. Otherwise they’d be bringing you live updates at 11pm on a game that finished at 22:15, for example. Midnight onwards is normally a replay of the 11pm hour.

Well they’re showing a loop of the same two promos for 15 minutes. Presumably it’s all play out had to hand quickly rather than show the simulcast of SSN’s breakdown.

I thought so, I vaguely remember seeing a wide view of the Sky News and SSN floors during Sky News Raw.

Kimberley on at midnight, so I assume we're back?

Back at midnight. On the Now TV stream we got the world weather and then the TOTH as normal.

And back to normal service at midnight.