Sky News

Oh yeah, weather from the newswall, forgot that little gem. As if it wasn't almost impossible to understand it before, they've put it about 15 metres away from the screen on a blurred bank of monitors.

Ryley will have to make more changes before the year is out. I appreciate what has been said about him stripping away the excesses of the relaunch, but fundamentally the approach of some of the bulletins is clumsy and a bit tedious.

I even think the studio is still a bit pants. The regular backdrop for presenters is a screen of pictures that is just very static and dull... why not use the rotating desk and position it facing the newsroom to add just a bit of life into proceedings. When you see guests interviewed in front of it, it really adds a bit of air to the thing.

Ryley has an article in today's Indy:
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1359762.ece

Sky News certainly feels a bit frustrating to watch at the moment, I can't watch without thinking "why are you doing that?" or "what don't you still do that?". I'd like to bang the bosses heads against a wall to be honest. They need to go back to being smart, intelligent, exciting and fast, instead of the current slow, monotonous, same-old crap. The whole Sky News Today format was seen as almost a revolution in news presentation when it was first introduced with Martin and Julie presenting, but they seem to have completely turned their back on it in favour of sit-down-at-the-desk news. I just don't think this style is appropriate for the image they're trying to go for. Stuff like the website graphic in the top left, and the (thankfully not seen recently) Sky News Active straps... why on earth have these been introduced?

Hopefully it'll all change once silly season is finally over, all the main presenters are back and things return to normality. The way it's going, I'm starting to understand why they've been overtaken by the (slowly but surely) improving News 24.

Eamon is back and Sunrise had a differnet opening at 8 am. They just sat on the balcony and there was no voice over. Is Julie coming back today?

Quote from Ryley: The Sky News website is going to be radically overhauled so it becomes a world-class, richer site for breaking news and information that will encourage you to find out more about what is going on in the world.

Well, if there going to promote that website it needs to be better. Im glad there giving it a big overhaul. If only the graphics could do the same.

I expected that SNT may return to it's old format today, but nothing happened. They just sat at the desk and the headlines were like 15 seconds long. It's stupid and boring. This new man is distroying the channel.

The objection I have to what Ryley says in his article is his proposal to cut the story count.

Must Agreee! Today should use the Newswall pod again for the start.

This is... just urg. Bring Back SNT Format, even if its just two presenters, because, Sky, you need it. You cant have a 'relaunch' saying 'Appointment To Watch Television' and then completly scrap any programme branding, variations, eg: newswall used in SNT, the pod, etc.

...well she's back today and nothing has changed.

Read it properly. That isn't a proposal.. it is what Sky do and have done for years and years.

I have read it again. To me it reads like a manifesto for his stewardship of the channel.