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Relaunch & beyond (October 2005)

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JO
Johnnie
cat posted:
Quick question - has Julie Etchingham been entirely absent from today's 'kidnap-coverage'?

Admittedly I've only caught brief snippets through the online stream, but when I've turned on I've seen only Colin Brazier or Anna Botting. No complaints about those two at all, to be honest, but Sky's presenter policy is looking baffling.

Etchingham was previously their highest profile presenter and bagged a programme built around her for the relaunch. She is now hidden away in the mid-afternoon slot and very rarely appears anywhere else on the channel. Likewise for Burley - if you only ever watched Sky News for an evening round up, you wouldn't have a clue that she existed.


Julie was off all last week and as been this week.
MD
mdtauk
Sky News Sunrise, showed video of their train station screens. I doubt it will be used as is, the graphics are enlarged for this service, but the style is fairly simple.

I will hopefully be popping down to Kings Cross, Later and will take some photos...
GI
gillw72
Sky News Press Release on yesterday's events.

0712
Sky News first to break the news of a major anti-terror police operation with a breaking news strap: ‘8 people arrested at addresses in Birmingham under Terrorism Act’

0715
Eamonn Holmes anchors Sky News Sunrise and crosses to New Scotland Yard for first live interview with Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt

Martin confirms that:
- police have stopped a major terrorist attack
- 8 people arrested around 4am in and around Birmingham area

- major operation planned for some time

- coordinated by West Midlands and Scotland Yard

- not against the transport system

Sky News Online begins streaming key elements of Sky News TV coverage on the terror raids at sky.com/news

Sky News ticker on the recently launched LG screen at Piccadilly Circus breaks the news of the major police operation

0719
Sky News straps Home Office confirmation of the major anti-terrorist operation

Eamonn Holmes speaks to Sky News Home Affairs Correspondent Mark White down the line who reports that the Home Secretary continues to be fully briefed

0726
Sky News breaks the news that an intruder armed with a pitch fork has been arrested at Prince Charles’ Highgrove residence. Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall believed to be asleep in the house at the time

0748
Sky News Midlands Correspondent David Crabtree reports live from Midlands Police HQ. He confirms that:

- the raids were carried out in the Eastern side of Birmingham
- a number of addresses are sealed off
- Midlands counter-terror unit believed to be behind the raids, with back up from Midlands and Metropolitan police

Eamonn Holmes gets first reaction from a Labour MP, Stephen Pound, who is in the Sky News Centre to discuss the cash-for-honours investigation. He says the raids look like a ‘very good piece of police work’

0758
Sky News Midlands Correspondent Lisa Dowd reports live from the Sparkhill area, SE Birmingham and is first to describe the scenes of the raids

0833
Sky News first to broadcast pictures from Sparkhill area of Birmingham showing sealed off streets

0930
SkyCopter starts broadcasting live images of the scene of the terror raids in Birmingham

0931
Sky News is first to break the news that the planned attack was an “Iraq style” kidnapping

Martin Brunt reports that the alleged plot was to snatch an individual off the street, mirroring terrorist activities common in Iraq, with the “chilling” possibility of a murder being filmed

1006
David Crabtree on Poplar Road reports that between 20–50 police officers would have been involved in raids at 4am

Sky News reports that police surveillance started 6 months ago

1032
The planned attack would have involved a beheading to be posted on the internet, according to Sky sources

1033
Martin Brunt breaks the news that:
- the intended individual had been made aware by police
- He is a man in his 20’s
- He is now in police custody
- The alleged attack could have been a matter of days away

1100
Sky News presenter Colin Brazier begins anchoring from Birmingham

1131
Sky News snap that the intended kidnap victim was a soldier

1143
Colin Brazier breaks the news that a Muslim soldier was the target in alleged terror plot, according to Army sources
Sky News is first to speak to the Home Secretary live outside the Home Office about the police operation.
John Reid asks press and media to ‘exercise a great deal of responsibility and restraint’ with their reporting

1200
Tony Blair faces questions about the terror raids in PMQs
Sky News Midlands Correspondent Lisa Dowd speaks to Fox News from Birmingham and broadcasts live SkyCopter aerial shots of the Birmingham area

http://www.skypressoffice.co.uk/SkyNews/News/showarticle.asp?id=2156
CH
chromakey123
martinDTanderson posted:
Sky News Sunrise, showed video of their train station screens. I doubt it will be used as is, the graphics are enlarged for this service, but the style is fairly simple.

I will hopefully be popping down to Kings Cross, Later and will take some photos...



Check this: Sky News screens LIVE!
BA
Bail Moderator
Interesting stacked logo... It seems News 24 is going Sky, and Sky is going N24..
RO
roxuk
Bail posted:
Interesting stacked logo... It seems News 24 is going Sky, and Sky is going N24..


They seem to be using both versions of the logo on the screens- the current one and the stacked one.
MD
mdtauk
God I hope they dont appear on the main channel!

I can understand the size being large an' all, but the style of the fonts seem wrong. The ALL CAPS is bad, and the stacked logo, whilst not looking bad, I can't say its better as a DOG then the striped logo.

Now I havn't been able to see it in person yet, but are those gradients on the logo, strap and graphics, or just an artifact of the view of the screen/webcams?
GI
gillw72
To me it looks like a customised design just for the station screens...
AJ
AJ
http://skynews3.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/station_transvision.jpg
From the Sky News Viewpoint Blog

The blog also statest that the graphics have been specifically designed for the Titan service.
RO
roo
AJ posted:
The blog also statest that the graphics have been specifically designed for the Titan service.

'Designed' seems a bit much. Congealed, maybe...
MD
mdtauk
The design itself isnt bad, it works for its purpose and looks good on the big screen, its just it wouldnt work on TV.

And with the rumour that the new on-screen look, may have similarities to these designs, then its just a worrying prospect.
GR
gregmc
AJ posted:
http://skynews3.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/station_transvision.jpg
From the Sky News Viewpoint Blog

The blog also statest that the graphics have been specifically designed for the Titan service.


Urgh. Yuck. Thats Fox with a Sky News logo slaped on it instead.

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