Sky News

What happened was that Prince approached Sky News. As far as I'm aware the people at BskyB didn't want this on sky news they wanted it on sky one, but Prince's terms were non-negotiable. So no, there was no bidding war or anything like that. Sky News was approached by prince becuase of the large international audience it reaches. And realistically, are you going to say no?

Which is all she's good for.

Has anyone tried watching "Your News" on 24? I did the other night. Its appalling! How on earth they're wasting money and staff producing something like that in the present climate I don't understand. Surely a repeat of the likes of Hardtalk, Reports, the business programmes or something from BBC World would be far preferable. Please don't tell me its actually popular.

Interesting interview on the new schedule,Jeff Randal and the airing of that Prince concert.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a76149/sky-news-to-emphasise-familiar-faces.html

I see on another forum that who ever was presenting Sky News overnight, referred to; 'Britain's first case of Bluetooth disease'.

I assume they're talking about themselves, and not the Bluetongue case in Suffolk

An interesting quote in the interview- "It's very important to us as a business that the Sky News brand is out on as many platforms as possible."

yet Sky News is currently off Cable and might be leaving freeview.

I hope the new programmes in the schedule all have their own identity.

And do we know if Julie's show will just be from the desk or will they innovate?

Id like to think it could be done from the pod on the newswall,just something to make it stand out from everything else.

And as for putting Anna Jones in the 8-10,15mins slot,its just madness.Although not quite as mad as putting Martin Stanford on for just half an hour,4 days of the week.

Having said that i think some,and i stress some,of the changes are good(i.e Kay might liven up the afternoon,and Sky News At 7 sounds like a good move).

I have a feeling it will all be from the desk with a huge zoom of presenters head,like now, so we can enjoy in their personalities.

The question is what is bigger - the credibility of Sky News or the egos of Sky News presenters?

Unfortunately the presenters' egos seemed to be heavily massaged by the management at the moment which is never good really.

They need to look at how they're going to do this really - I can't really see personality led programmes being the way forward. It'll be very stagnant if it's just Julie at the desk, and then the other presenter providing news updates ala Sunrise.

Sky News needs banter between it's presenters - much like it had before 2005.

A similar format worked on the ITV News Channel with Alastair Stewart and Angela Rippon - but they had the charisma to carry it off.

I agree that the 'classic' Sky News double-headed format was always the best and I hope they return to it eventually.

I don't understand why do they want to return to something that didn't work (Sky Report,WNT). Why not return to news with 3 presenters?