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Relaunch & beyond (October 2005)

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GR
gregmc
NewsUpdate posted:
gillw posted:
Blimey, Ian Woods is presenting...



Cannot believe he going back to a 'desk job' after all he did read the sport for a few years.
Perhaps whoever was due on tonight has found it rather tricky to get into work because of the rain


He's been down for summer cover, its usual down at Sky to get reporters in over the summer to present.
JW
JamesWorldNews
gillw posted:
Blimey, Ian Woods is presenting...



Strangely enough, his features also remind me a little bit of the late Peter Woods! (of BBC News fame). I wonder if they were related.
CI
cityprod
BBC WORLD posted:
gillw posted:
Blimey, Ian Woods is presenting...



Strangely enough, his features also remind me a little bit of the late Peter Woods! (of BBC News fame). I wonder if they were related.


If memory serves, I believe he is Peter Woods' son.
LO
Londoner
If Kay Burley talks about the Thames "getting quite tidal" at Abingdon once more I shall scream.

Still, this is amusing

Media Monkey posted:
A stuffed panther's head wearing a tiara, a radiator disguised as a Grecian goddess, and a wetroom with a mosaic of a giant squirrel. Who lives in a house like this? Why, Sky News presenter Kay Burley and Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson. The Harrow-on-the Hill home, which is up for sale for a cool £1.75m, is big enough that the couple can live in one half during the summer and the other half in the winter, and features a Wurlitzer jukebox "bought with the bonus I got for interviewing Rebecca Loos about her alleged affair with David Beckham", Burley told the Daily Telegraph. Burley designed the squirrel herself, while the panther's head was a present from Kenneth Williams to the home's former owner, Carry On actor Kenneth Connor. The Sky News presenter is moving to a bigger house so she can keep donkeys. No, really.
JO
Joshua
Good to see Sky using the newswall this afternoon, Martin was just saying if the water was as high as the newswall walkway, its now at the top of the newswall, the jib then went right up to the blue barriers at the top Laughing Good way to explain it I suppose!
JL
jli4637
Londoner posted:

Media Monkey posted:
A stuffed panther's head wearing a tiara, a radiator disguised as a Grecian goddess, and a wetroom with a mosaic of a giant squirrel. Who lives in a house like this? Why, Sky News presenter Kay Burley and Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson. The Harrow-on-the Hill home, which is up for sale for a cool £1.75m, is big enough that the couple can live in one half during the summer and the other half in the winter, and features a Wurlitzer jukebox "bought with the bonus I got for interviewing Rebecca Loos about her alleged affair with David Beckham", Burley told the Daily Telegraph. Burley designed the squirrel herself, while the panther's head was a present from Kenneth Williams to the home's former owner, Carry On actor Kenneth Connor. The Sky News presenter is moving to a bigger house so she can keep donkeys. No, really.


I trust she won't forget to take her twin red setter with her.
IM
its me
The EPG lists "Sunrise with Jeremy Thompson and Kay Burley" as starting at 5 today, although Charlottle Hawkins is anchoring alone from the main desk as I type.
FO
fodg09
Any news on Andrew Wilson?,i remember reading a while back he was being brought back to london as a presenter.
BR
breakingnews
Not sure I get why they called the 7 o'clock news hour a flood special programme. Apart from excluding sport, it seemed the exact same to me as every other hour.
MA
mattshaw
breakingnews posted:
Not sure I get why they called the 7 o'clock news hour a flood special programme. Apart from excluding sport, it seemed the exact same to me as every other hour.


I agree, and it was the same yesterday with their 'special programme' at 7pm.
MH
miss hellfire
I'm getting really fed up with sky. They are so predictable. I saw a helicopter landing on a main road near me the other day. I got all excited as i thought they'd heard i'd flooded my bathroom.
It was only that it wasn't a skycopter that my heart sank.

My rubber duck is very upset, it wanted to be famous.
MI
Milktrolley
Those who suggest that Sky News is going the way of its US counterpart have another bit of evidence to go on. Consider Martin Stanford's script from 9:58am this morning...

"We're on shark watch off the coast of Cornwall. Is it a great white or a great deal about nothing? We report, you decide ."

First time I've heard that outside of Fox anyway.

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