Sky News

The regulations may refer to DOGs of a certain size and opacity, having to be Animated. The News 24 Tower had the rotating globe.

Also in the lastest blog entry, this sounds interesting...

Does that mean the GMTV clock is against OFCOM regulations too?
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I wasn't aware Ofcom had guidelines on DOGs.

I can only find this mention of them on there website-

I wonder why my comment about how rubbish that statement about Ofcom is hasn't appeared on the Viewer's Blog, yet Martin Anderson's geekish questions have?

Oh my comment is up then...

Aye - same here. My comment was surely in line with the guidelines too - it didn't contain anything that shouldn't be published (in my eyes - obviously, the views of Sky News seem to be differing from the consensus of the general public more and more nowadays.).

EDIT: OOH - some sneaky tweaking of the Sky News blog there:



EDIT 2: surely that giant white line across the top of the ticker would cause more screenburn than any logo could??

Sky News Press Release;

Iraq Week on Sky News and five news
Issued: March 6, 2007
[TX Inside Iraq: starts Monday 12 March, from 06:00 on Sky News and from 11:30 on five news]

MEDIA ADVISORY Sky News and five news are marking the fourth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq invasion with a week of special programming from Monday 12 March.

Throughout the week there will be live reports from inside Iraq, specially commissioned films showing what life is like for ordinary Iraqis, background explainers and live debates on all the key issues from the troubled region.

Lives


Sky News presenters and correspondents will be based in several locations around Iraq:

* Sky News presenter Anna Botting will anchor live from Baghdad with comment and insight from Sky News Foreign Editor Tim Marshall
* Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay is embedded with US marines, part of the new deployment of troops
* Middle East Correspondent Dominic Waghorn and five news Correspondent Jonathan Samuels will report from Basra, examining what will happen when the British soldiers leave
* US Correspondent Andrew Wilson will look at life in the Kurdish city of Irbil and finds out if the north is a success story

Features

* Sky News has also commissioned five authored pieces from Iraqi film-makers to paint a portrait of everyday life inside the country. They are voices rarely heard on British television showing viewers the real Iraq, beyond the Green Zone.
* On 9 April 2003, the tanks of the 3rd Marine Battalion rolled into the heart of Baghdad and famously helped topple the statue of Saddam Hussein. It was the iconic moment of the Iraq War and signalled the end of the Saddam regime. Sky News captured the event live, interviewing the marines as they made history.

Four years on, and against a more sombre backdrop in Iraq, Sky has tracked down the same marines to discover what it was like to play their part in changing the world – and what happens once the spotlight is switched off and public jubilation evaporates. The exclusive documentary will air on Sky News in April with extracts previewed during the Iraq Week.

* Sky presenter Anna Botting re-visits Ali Abbas, the young boy who lost both arms in a bombing raid on Iraq and became a symbol of the human cost of the conflict, prompting outrage and sympathy around the world. Ali was fitted with artificial limbs and now lives and goes to school in south-west London.

* Sky News Online will create a dedicated section for Iraq Week and sky.com/news will for the first time use on-air graphics extensively to mirror Sky News TV. The site will include video reports and weblogs from Correspondents in the field providing regular updates and in-depth analysis.

* Sky News presenter Chris Roberts will present a series of background explainers examining, for example, Iran’s involvement in the current conflict and the difference between Shia and Sunni.

Debate and interviews

* Thursday 15 March 20:00 GMT Sky News Political Editor Adam Boulton will chair a high-level live debate involving guests from both the pro and anti-war movement, covering questions such as: was Tony Blair right to involve British troops, should they continue to stay in Iraq, did Saddam keep the Middle East stable and was the invasion worth it?
* Sunday 11 March 20:00 GMT Sky News presenter, commentator and analyst James Rubin presents a special programme reflecting on events in Iraq over the past four years, with contributions from former Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Robert Cooper, Tony Blair's former foreign affairs adviser

* Other interviewees during the week include former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Dr Hans Blix, former foreign secretaries Lord Hurd and Lord Owen, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former British ambassador to the UN and special representative to Iraq during the first year of the occupation, Iraqi Ambassador to the UK Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly, and many others.

http://www.skypressoffice.co.uk/SkyNews/news/showarticle.asp?id=2166

The GMTV dog isn't on 24 hours a day so I'd guess not.

And of course no one can physically watch GMTV for more than a few seconds without having to turn over!

Apart from the five million that do every morning.

The Sky News dog isn't on 24 hours as they go to ad breaks the same number of times as GMTV, so therefore the Sky dog is on for up to the same amount of time as GMTV in one go.

So far my thoughts about the spinning clock have not been ruled out, I'm beginning to think I Might, for once be right about something and John Ryley wrong.
I thinks it's a great idea that he has organized the Iraq-Week and I'm sure that the Features and Live presentations will be very strong (though the may irk Mr Murdoch as they might explain how his mate Mr. Bush Jr did a very bad thing), but is it the case that someone took their eye off the ball where the graphics redesign was concerned.

The spinning logo server no purpose, therefore it is a gimmick!

As for the "Ofcom explanation", well done to those who managed to get Sky News to retract that idea. Sometimes Sky News like to make statements which are completely wrong and then come down heavy on anyone who dares to challenge it's accuracy. Perhaps they will change more as a result of internet user pressure.

If Ofcom had a rule on static station idents, it would mean trouble for Sky Sports Snooze, MTV, Sky Sports, At The Races ..... and I am sure many others. The white line above the ticker thingie I never read, as it was already pointed out, would have burned the ass off your Plasma long ago.

As I write, CBS News is on Sky News, last night the spinny logo wiped out half their straps, tonight it's missing and there's no clock either. They must be working on it, I hope they are changing it!!

Sky News, is for the most part, background TV. It gets interesting at times when a big story breaks, but for the most part it's wallpaper. Trouble is, it has just changed it's look to garish and finicky wallpaper.
My laptop screen has the time in a convenient place, broadband provides me with the video of news stories I want to watch - on demand.

In 1989 Sky News was ground-breaking, the UKs first 24 hour news channel on the television - provided you were able to stick a wok to the side of your house or had cable.

18 years later ???

A change has been made to the date and time... as the tower spins the date and time spin aswell. I think it changed at 10am... can't remember seeing it before.