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Oh goody! The good old "I know something you don't" post.
A staple of TV Forum over the years - although completely unnecessary. If you know stuff, which you don't want to share - then don't bother saying that you know information.
Somebody had a bad day at work?
Fine I will tell you something then. The music is similar to the current style - as has been alluded to. A few months back this was tried out overnight - as was documented. The hope being to role this out across all TOTH's. It didn't happen because a certain person was advised that it didn't work, despite his opinions otherwise.
So they went back to the drawing board with quite a strict brief actually. Far more rigid than I like - but that's my opinion. The music rather than sounding quite static, linear and basic now has more depth - like the orchestral style. There was alot of looking back at the old music - what they liked what they didn't like, and which bits fitted with the new image. It remains very grand - but not the type of grand that we saw back in 2005.
It is very hard to explain. That is the reason why i don't like giving details, because i'm so **** at explaining stuff, I need aids.
This is a reluanch that has kind of been on the cards for ages. The plan originally was to relaunch in two stages. One in February and one in the early may/june-ish. Just before everything goes tits up and people leave on holiday. However, with Blair leaving and Maddie McCann - that simply wasn't possible. I also now know that Mr Ryley wasn't happy with launching stage two because he'd been unable to resolve the tricky problem of the evenings. In other words he was **** scared that if he got it wrong then it could be curtains. So he waited and searched untill he could sign Jeff Randell.
As time went on however, there was increasing pressure to expand this relaunch and make it more of a relaunch in its own right - because of the change in focus and loss of impetus from february. Times had changed and so had ideas. This it has to be said has been rushed alittle bit more. Of course the natural choice is to stick kay Burley on for longer. She's charismatic (or atleast more than most of them) and is damned good with breaking news. Then the morning and it was a toss up between martin and Julie. As we all now know Julie got the gig - and I'll explain why.
The new buzz word at the news centre is 'new-media' - and it don't take much to figure that out.. martin, being the teccy type is a person with the natural interest to front this side of things. and he's had more of an influence than you would care to imagine. I would epxect Martin to become the 'face' of sky news online. so just 'cos he's only on 2hrs a week, don't mean that's all he's dong. There are also personal reasons involved.
Anna Jones was a bit difficult, and i don't think anybody other than Mr Ryley can tell you why sh'es been placed in the 15mins slot. But here's what I've been told. Again she was first choice to go with kay. But then that meant there was the sticky issue of who would front the 15 minutes? It was felt that Colin's style is a bit too monotonous and straght-laced to cut it, therefore Anna Jones was felt as an acceptable compromise. Don't ask me where Emma Croby came from - as I don't think anybody has a clue. i think it's more to do with that she's cheap rather than sh'es actually in favour at sky towers.
You'll also find that with new staff coming in they've helped focus everybody a bit with new ideas and suggestions.
So I do know my stuff - and now i have shared. Kindly retract your post and your claws young AJ.
AJ posted:
SN2005 posted:
I would prepare yourselves for something erm...how can I put it....different?
I nearly shat myself the first time I saw everything together. I was not expecting it. i don't want to give too much away as it will spoil the surprise for everybody.
The TOTH feels alot more structured now. Which is very good.
Whilst i still don't agree with the decision on principle, I feel they've gone the right way about doing what they want to do.
Ohhhh, so many secrets I could tell, but alas I think you can wait.
I nearly shat myself the first time I saw everything together. I was not expecting it. i don't want to give too much away as it will spoil the surprise for everybody.
The TOTH feels alot more structured now. Which is very good.
Whilst i still don't agree with the decision on principle, I feel they've gone the right way about doing what they want to do.
Ohhhh, so many secrets I could tell, but alas I think you can wait.
Oh goody! The good old "I know something you don't" post.
A staple of TV Forum over the years - although completely unnecessary. If you know stuff, which you don't want to share - then don't bother saying that you know information.
Somebody had a bad day at work?
Fine I will tell you something then. The music is similar to the current style - as has been alluded to. A few months back this was tried out overnight - as was documented. The hope being to role this out across all TOTH's. It didn't happen because a certain person was advised that it didn't work, despite his opinions otherwise.
So they went back to the drawing board with quite a strict brief actually. Far more rigid than I like - but that's my opinion. The music rather than sounding quite static, linear and basic now has more depth - like the orchestral style. There was alot of looking back at the old music - what they liked what they didn't like, and which bits fitted with the new image. It remains very grand - but not the type of grand that we saw back in 2005.
It is very hard to explain. That is the reason why i don't like giving details, because i'm so **** at explaining stuff, I need aids.
This is a reluanch that has kind of been on the cards for ages. The plan originally was to relaunch in two stages. One in February and one in the early may/june-ish. Just before everything goes tits up and people leave on holiday. However, with Blair leaving and Maddie McCann - that simply wasn't possible. I also now know that Mr Ryley wasn't happy with launching stage two because he'd been unable to resolve the tricky problem of the evenings. In other words he was **** scared that if he got it wrong then it could be curtains. So he waited and searched untill he could sign Jeff Randell.
As time went on however, there was increasing pressure to expand this relaunch and make it more of a relaunch in its own right - because of the change in focus and loss of impetus from february. Times had changed and so had ideas. This it has to be said has been rushed alittle bit more. Of course the natural choice is to stick kay Burley on for longer. She's charismatic (or atleast more than most of them) and is damned good with breaking news. Then the morning and it was a toss up between martin and Julie. As we all now know Julie got the gig - and I'll explain why.
The new buzz word at the news centre is 'new-media' - and it don't take much to figure that out.. martin, being the teccy type is a person with the natural interest to front this side of things. and he's had more of an influence than you would care to imagine. I would epxect Martin to become the 'face' of sky news online. so just 'cos he's only on 2hrs a week, don't mean that's all he's dong. There are also personal reasons involved.
Anna Jones was a bit difficult, and i don't think anybody other than Mr Ryley can tell you why sh'es been placed in the 15mins slot. But here's what I've been told. Again she was first choice to go with kay. But then that meant there was the sticky issue of who would front the 15 minutes? It was felt that Colin's style is a bit too monotonous and straght-laced to cut it, therefore Anna Jones was felt as an acceptable compromise. Don't ask me where Emma Croby came from - as I don't think anybody has a clue. i think it's more to do with that she's cheap rather than sh'es actually in favour at sky towers.
You'll also find that with new staff coming in they've helped focus everybody a bit with new ideas and suggestions.
So I do know my stuff - and now i have shared. Kindly retract your post and your claws young AJ.
its very different though as I have already said.