The Sky News Thread

The IKL one is a pre-existing camera (used by CNBC as well I believe) mounted on the roof of the building the studio is in. For the Breakfast shot it would require a new camera and infrastructure installed - presumably they like this angle, so that would mean you'd need to mount a high-end camera (to get adequate resolution) on Lambeth Bridge, install power & fibre, and make it safe from idiots who want to be on TV.

Possible? Sure. Cost-effective? I highly doubt it - you'd have the situation where you have a foggy day or rainy day and you'd revert to the backup shot so why install a dedicated camera in the first place? Would you even get permission from TfL who own the bridge?

Sky News to launch dedicated pop-up channel for the George Floyd trial:
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/skynews-floydtrial

I have wondered if a “Sky News Live Events” channel would be a good idea long term. For things such as this but also press conferences in full, certain parliamentary matters and such; things that perhaps don’t need to be carried in full on the main channel. I mean the cost of this is an obvious caveat, but it could even be a pop up service, that simulcasts the main Sky News Channel when there’s nothing to carry live. And that might be a good way to ‘sell’ the service as 24/7 channel that simulcasts Sky News but breaks away to show live events.

I do sometimes find myself tuned into Sky News and regular shows such as the last hour of the weekday breakfast show or Ian King Live have been replaced for the entire duration. And while this is done when there’s a clear interest, I do also wonder if there’s a significant audience who would rather stick with those regular shows and just drop into longer news events when something of interest has been said.

I think they used to do that as part of Sky Interactive?

Indeed. 'Press conference continues on Sky News Active' or similar was very common a few years back.

Sky News Active - now they’re good memories. Many an afternoon I would would put on Sky News, and if I wasn’t interested in the story being covered I’d utilise the active service to see what else had been going on. It’s a shame that such services have disappeared but I suppose it’s more about the online content these days. Maybe it’s me but I feel as though a lot of good technology has come and gone in quick succession over the past 25 years.

Just to note Sam Washington is coming from studio 6 today on the 10-2 shift.



I must agree that that Sky News could do more on the Sky Catch Up service, even if the latest Sky News Radio bulletin was available on demand for people to listen via Sky boxes or the TOH sequences could be altered to be a more rounded mini bulletin too. Also just the general programmes too, perhaps not every hours needs to be available (Although Global have literally every hour free to catch up on, even though it’s perhaps just a similar mix of songs and chat each hour of most days) but certainly Sky News at Ten, Press Preview, The News Hour at 5, All Out Politics, Ian King Live, at least the 7am hour of Breakfast. Surely it wouldn’t be too much work to do this. There is a limited Sky news section on the catch up section but it’s hidden way pretty well. Whereas they could be promoting it a lot more and getting people watching on demand, which may also increase awareness and viewers to the main channel.

I know you can access the latest Sky News Radio bulletin from the website, but like the Sky News catchup section, it's very well hidden.

Most of the news shows are pretty much samey, so waste of time uploading it all. Most reports you seen at Breakfast are pretty much unchanged in evening unless big developments.

They could do with uploading more clips from set interviews through the day.

I would have thought most people would access Sky News Radio outside the live bulletins on commercial radio via smart speakers, which is more convenient than using a Sky receiver.

Appears it will duplicate the Court TV footage that is already on Sky, according to the official news release... not sure how it adds extra value?
https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/george-floyd-death-sky-news-dedicates-channel-to-livestream-of-derek-chauvin-trial_

The DOG seems to be duplicated at the moment. (Sky News HD - NowTV on BTTV)