Sky News

Emma mentioned this morning that JT won presenter of the year and that Sky News won the innovation award for it's use of the ticker during the Tsumani.

Caps jimbo?

Just imagine how it looked before with the words "News Channel of the Year" replaced by "First For Breaking News". Not brain surgery!

EDIT: Here you are...

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Don't think there's any surprises in the fact that they didn't get News Channel of the Year again. Sky News has become boring, stale and quite unwatchable at times.

The 3 presenter format as it is does not work. The ATV schedule needs rethinking and their approach to breaking news has changed for the worse.

They take themselves too seriously now, and there's absolutely no banter to be seen anywhere.

As for Eamonn - what I saw of him today (covering the £40,000,000 robbery) he seemed to be quite good, taking an even role with Emma and not taking the piss as he usually does.

On the whole though - back to the drawing board, me thinks!

Maybe as suggested before the atv primetime programmes where cut to 30mins like this...

7.00pm - Sky News Live
7.30pm - Sky Report
8.00pm - Sky News Live
8.30pm - World News Tonight
9.00pm - Sky News Live
9.30pm - World Business Tonight
10.00pm - News At Ten

I think that way the atv programmes will be more rich of info and make the investigative reports better. Also having Sky News Live for 30min every hour viewers will know that news does come first.

Cheers Moz.

He doesn't even know I've pinched it off TV Room and done a very bad job of blurring out "News Channel" and putting the new one on top!

me didn't think it were real cos there was no shadow!

I think the "First for Breaking News" text is much larger than that...not sure it the on screen version looks right.

BBC News 24 Controller Kevin Bakhurst was last night quoted as saying: "After a year of huge news stories, this is a great tribute to everyone who works on News 24 and the BBC's teams in the field. BBC News 24 now has a clear lead over Sky in viewing figures and this is a real recognition of the channel's reputation for authority, speed and range of coverage."

Is this information true? If so, what are the latest viewing figures in comparison?

There are a few inconsistencies on Sky News that often bug me - such as the frequent use of two presenters instead of three on SNT (namely today and yesterday).

If the format is for 3 anchors, and they have a huge pool of presenters / reporters / correspondents, I wonder why they can't have three presenters and sometimes go with two (especially two days in a row.)

I still think that Ginny Buckley is improving, though.

Sky's News at Ten has all the potential to be a really watchable and milestone programme. However, I think they would need to chnage presenters to achieve that.

James

I don't think it has truthfully, as I doubt that Sky News would spring to mind for news at 10 o'clock.