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I very much doubt that Comcast will be looking in to employee files on such a granular basis. IF there were grounds for any action whatsoever, then Sky have a fully capable HR team to manage that.

They won’t normally, but if there is one known to them they will. It was reported that Keith Olbermanns abrupt departure from MSNBC was based on Comcast taking over the majority of the company less than a 8 days later. News blogs said Comcast wouldn’t tolerate attitudes, poor temperament or diva behavior from their employees or talent. If Adam has a history and a clip of such behavior went viral shortly there after the purchase I’d believe someone would be looking into it.

The only thing that's happened which may be pure coincidence since Comcast took over is E! moving up the EPG swapping with Sky Two. Sky News and a potential diva presenter is probably lower down the things the new company is looking at.

This new found urge to be seen as a campaigning champion seems to be borrowed from the newspaper industry. I can't decide whether it works well for them or looks a tad desperate.

Sky seem to need to prove how relevant they are to the national conversation right now. We saw this with the relentless plugging for the Sky Ocean Rescue campaign, and now debates.

Part of me admires that they're trying do something different, the rest of me is just reminded of the sort of local newspaper campaign that seek to lower parking charges to prove they've 'got their community's back'.

Trouble is, Sky did hours and hours over a year on Ocean Rescue, but the public credit David Attenborough after an hour on BBC One.

They've vastly overestimated the public's desire for TV election debates. They should quietly drop the campaign.

Re. Adam, this is an interesting watch...

I suspect more people in the UK saw that hour on BBC One than saw any element of Sky's Ocean Rescue campaign. Probably by a significant amount.

I think you are over estimating Adams importance.

I’m not aware of him to be honest. But by the sounds like he does hold a big job title of editor at large.

Nope. All he does is write occasional things for the sky views section of the website and present all out politics. You would expect him to do a lot behind the scenes, but their political team is absolutely huge so I doubt it

Why? The next milestone of 100,000 seems achievable.

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