Sky News

I have put further thoughts in an email to Sky about the revamp. They seem appropriate to post here too:

I was very pleased to see the upcoming changes to Sky News.
It is great to see Jeremy Thompson and Anna Botting will be back together, and that Martin Stanford will get a new show. I rather like Saturday Live and I hope the new show will pick some good bits of that (like Technofile!)

However, I do wonder why Gillian Joseph still has a job. She is much worse than Ginny and pairing her up with Martin will only go to show her up further. Chris Roberts has had to carry her from the word go, and he looks totally different and well at ease when he is presenting with Paula Middlehurst.

Also, why is Anna not on Live at Five? She is doing the last two hours, but Live at Five has shown that JT needs someone to bounce off, and Anna was superb with him. Sky News obviously recognise that, so why did they not go the whole way, and give her all 3 hours too?

Finally, I hope this also means a revamp of the logo and titles. The new music is great, but the "look at our big new studio" titles weren't very good to start with, and are wearing a lot thin now. The logo looks like it was created by a six year old in Paint Shop Pro - the old one was much more classy. I also hope you will kill the "Active on Sky Satellite" strap that obscures most of the screen at the weekend. That is really annoying.

I hope these comments are useful. The evening line-up will certainly get me back watching (until 10pm). Replace Gillian with Paula, Emma Crosby or Faye Barker and I would probably watch later too.

Here's to hoping Sky News is on its way back to where it was 2 years ago.

After reading that Sky Report e-mail I feal sorry for that show. I think it was very good and interesting with a great team working behind the camera. Will there be any changes to weekends, and will Lucy Alexander be replacing Juliette for permanent?

I hope they will change TOTH because this one became boring long time ago.They need something fresh with the globe,clouds and ocean like the one they use on the videowall. I like the music a lot but they could make some remix for different shows, like Sunrise or that new evening show.

Do they use the dark globe? I dont think i have ever seen it used on air.

As in the globe seen in these:
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Your comments are somewhat unnecessarily harsh and demeaning.

First of all, as a casual viewer of SN, I have watched SNT on occasions. And Gillian and Chris seem to work quite well together. Your comment about him seeming "edgy" and "carrying her" while they're on air together is unfounded - unless you know the man himself then you can't try and say what he's thinking. They are both compotent newsreaders and the fact that an equally as experienced anchor and reporter such as Gillian should be given the slot she has surely shows this.

For the record, Ginny was a terrible journalist. Her abortion interview last week showed her up fantastically and may have been one of the push factors for bosses - as well as her rigid presentation style and lack of chemistry.

The comments about the titles are also somewhat odd - if anything the channel looks more professional now, and the logo is simplistic, but adds to the prominence of the channel and makes it stand out more.

Your comments won't go unnoticed but I should think that Sky News may take more notice of a more professional and reasoned opinion than that.

I 've never seen those as well.
Where did you get those photos?

Speaking of harsh.....


Opinions are a wonderful thing. I felt he came over totally differently when he presented with Paula. There was some chemistry there, and she actually said something during the paper review, other than introducing the headline.


Can't comment too much, as I am at work most of the time when she was on. However, she did a decent enough job on the occasions I saw her, and her presence on screen never made me look who was on News 24. I also never saw the abortion interview, so I can't comment.


Again opinions, but I really can't see how a camera zooming round a studio looks more professional than any of the previous incarnations of the globes they used to have. As I see the logo, it really adds nothing to the prominence of the channel, and looks cheap and somewhat tacky. I feel it makes Sky News look like a tabloid, not a serious news organisation.


If you think that is unprofessional, you should see what some people send...

Seriously, it was neither a snap email, nor rude. You didn't like the Gillian criticism - OK by me, but it was not unprofessional, and was not meant to be an essay, it was a few selected opinions which they will probably ignore, but may take notice of.

Posted on here pre/day of relaunch.

May be SKY should keep The Sky Report ,But put it on SKY3 for 30 mins 3 days a week. The other 2 days could be used for other news type suff.

As I understand it, the cut backs are mainly because Sky want to make savings to cope with their HD stuff. ie I assume other non-news departments would also be experiencing cutbacks.
Of course, the misjudged spend by news would logically put them pretty high up the cut list.

The current one is poop!

Sky appear to have given there ticker over to the latest England score..and a "Fan Watch" mini screen has appeared- it looks a bit messy.

Seeing those pictures from the relaunch reminded me we still haven’t seen the appearance of Sky News' studio 2 which I remember reading about in the info from sky at the time. Wonder if it will ever appear or has it been quietly dropped?

It would be nice to see the TOTH sequence be changed when they kill off WNT and the Sky Report. It’s a shame as the Sky Report is quite good.

They also have stopped the ticker, and put up a score indicator.
And the whole ticker has become slightly transparent.

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