Sky News

So, after Juliet Foster left, who will be the permanent anchor of 5-12 on weekends?
And in my opinion - bring Faye Barker and Helen Fospero to the weekday slots and Martin Stanford to Sunrise.

Another question: Allan King has been an anchor at SKY since the launch in 1989 - why is he always doing weekend shifts? Is he a freelancer?

He runs his own media training company, Group K (or K Group, can't remember) during the week - and he does regularly do SNT during the week as well.

It's amazing the difference in 'Watchability' as soon as a new shift kicks in.

From 5pm, gone are the annoying 'Press red to access active' straps, and back comes the background info about the story actually on screen. Even the Breaking News banner has been on for sensbile amounts of time.

Completely agree. I find it difficut to watch with those ridiculous straps.

well the scurge of sky news is back. return of the active straps

So one of the gallery teams must work 5-8 at a guess then?

There was discussion a month ago about this here, and a couple of the theories then was that the order has come from higher up, either the deputy editor or the 'weekend director or editor' ?? Can't find the post and can't remember exactly the job title I'm afraid.

After a week of sackings at Sky News you'd have thought they would want to do everything in their power to retain veiwers, not scare them off!

As I said before, overall it gives the impression that the work experience bod has been let loose at the controls every weekend while the bosses are out of the office. Very amateurish indeed.

If anyone has any contacts at Sky News who could find out WHY they're doing it, I'd be fascinated to find out. Would also be interested to know what kind of feedback they've had on the matter.

Instead of leting their staff go they better change the things that really hurt the channel,like this stupid strap.

Does anyone know where can I find some videos of the opening of SNT during the 3 presenters era?

I thought I'd heard it was a John Ryley directive, but I'll have an ask around and see...

Do you have any insight on how this last week sacking happened, how the staff responded etc.?

Blimey, it could go 24/7 from August!