Sky News

P.S. I have noted that Sky News now uses "name-tags"** on screen for all news presenters, sports presenters and business presenters, but they DONT use them for the Weather Presenters.

Anyone know why?

**not sure of the proper technical term.

They do use them for weather presenters... well when I last saw, they did... it was for Isobel and Francis.

I was just going through some pictures on steve dixons website and noticed this picture http://www.stevedixon.biz/mediacentre/newset08.jpg
if you look at the bottom right of the globe, you can see a plasma screen with the un-used earth and the sky news logo. So, from this, it looks like there was a toth which then was changed to the newsroom one at the relaunch?

thats just the original globe they were going to use with original graphics until they changed it all at last minute.

You are correct. It was originaly a dark blue and blacky globe... looked very similar to the Channel 5 'life' ident (with the lights on the globe).

Would be interesting to see how they would of used it !

Looks better than this stupid blinds effects everywhere. Cheap and nasty.

Now, where have I seen this design before?
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/blindseffects.png

I'm sorry but have people in this thread said they like the new bits of music! It's awful. Sky had a very strong theme tune, which they've kept and adapted over time. Now its all but gone. The new TOTH titles are so plain and only the main bed retains the signature theme. The coming up beds etc are changing into pieces that are just noise, no theme, just a loop of music. The original music was actually music, played by a full orchestra, it was powerful and dramatic, now they have something spat out by a keyboard and drum machine.

Listen from a few clips I've captured during the day, starting with the original "bed 2" and some of the new coming up stuff... The original had a theme, an emotion, the new stuff is just noise to me. Sky had a wonderful package, why oh why have they dropped it so soon.

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Sure they were captured

I have to agree with you here, the original 2005 package was so much better than the 2006 trash.

Wow, you managed to record such a clean version of the bed?

completely agree with everything you said!

then why is it so sacred to you!!!

Sky News Australia Play of lots of the beds from the original 2005 music some of you have probably never heard!