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Sometimes for aesthetic reasons. Something may be going on in the background or poor weather.

NBC recently covered some of their windows on their West Capitol Hill Studios (same building as where Fox News and ITN - which share NBC space) blocking a beautiful view of the background with LED walls. For one of the large window panes (directly behind the main anchors) it can be removed but the LED wall stays in place most of the time showing show branded graphics or graphic versions of Capitol Hill.

The first 8 minutes of Ian King Live tonight has been a complete nightmare.

At 18:30 it cut to Ian King who clearly didn't know he was on air, and a producer clearly talking, followed by a Sky News Logo, for about 20 seconds, more conversation, cut back to Ian King, Ian starts reading the headlines, no music, hesitates, flips a sheet of paper and starts reading from it (felt like autocue failed) and then the music started. Then we had random graphics firing, video sequences repeating, more chatting in background and stuff being shown that clearly was not supposed to be, more chatter and an emergency break.

I have been abroad a bit recently, but are the problems getting any better? From everything I see things are still very little improved over the last two months - The production quality is still well down on what it was before the change to the new gallery.

Ian King Live having some real problems tonight. Started with Ian not knowing he was on air (you could hear staff directing him in the background), then random cuts from graphics to studio shots (showing guests being seated) and now sound problems.

Just gone to a much earlier than usual break.

EDIT: ^Ah, you beat me to it

Probably could do with someone racking the cameras down a bit too...

Is that done from a studio in the city?

Sky have a studio at News UK's HQ at London Bridge.

I'm still seeing a lot of issues

The TOTH has failed every hour this morning that I saw. I don't know why they don't just put up a static logo until its fixed

The other night they cut back to Nick who was putting some make up on too

Naz started doing the weather this morning and was cut off by a sky news logo and then started again with no weather sponsor sting shown

The other night going into a break on the press preview they showed the outside camera shot for ages before cutting to a break

Graphics randomly appear at the wrong times - sometimes to instantly go off and then come back on again

and continuing sunrise cue card watch yesterday Sarah had normal paper but don't panic today the cards are back in use again

Edit on Wednesday - Today the sports presenter is using all 3 types of cards. I don't understand why they don't just pick one and stick with it. every time it cut back to her a different version was on show and once it was upside down too

Technical issues from 1900 on Sky News Tonight, Dermot Monaghan handling it well but doesn't appear best pleased by it!

One report playing without sound for about 30 seconds, another report not able to be played and then they managed to go live to Washington correspondent but the "Live" slide didn't come on as it should at the start of the two-way.

'I'm just finding out what we're going to do next as we're running out of stories to bring you'.

Something like


Was Millbank always on the new gallery from the re-launch or was it switched over after?

The reason I ask is I remember in the weeks after the re-launch, Millbank was always flawless production wise and didn't seem to suffer from the same issues the other studios did. But the last month or so we've seen Millbank also suffer from the same kind of issues that the newer studios are suffering from.

Even two months into the new system, Sky News is still way down on production quality than what it was before and it doesn't seem to be really improving either. How much money was saved and how many jobs were lost in the switch from the old system to the new?

Another failure on Sunrise this morning. The TOTH didn't play instead they cut to a shot of the screen and Sarah was not there. the headline sequence was silently playing before eventually she started talking saying that was quite a shock there and then the music kicked in

Another absolute mess after the 9.30 weather. Went to a Sky News slide for a little while then to Stephen and Gillian who were relaxing as they thought they'd gone to a break. They started talking then the weather sponsor played out and went to a break. Absolute mess.