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Relaunch & beyond (October 2005)

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BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
According to Media Guardian, after ITV's initial offer Sky were desperately trying to persuade her to stay, but then ITV made an offer she couldn't refuse.

It also hints that, as we suspect, Sir Trev will be there for the launch but over time he'll hand over to Mark Austin.
CA
cat
This email was sent around to all MPs' offices yesterday. Thought you guys might want to read it:

We're working hard to make Sky News/Politics THE place for breaking political news, commentary and debate.



All material on the site is now generated by Sky's Political Unit including Adam Boulton, Jon Craig and all our political correspondents.



In addition, Adam's blog has become Boulton & Co, a regularly updated outlet for Westminster gossip and observation that the whole team contributes to.



There's more cross-over with our specialist political programmes on the news channel…Prime Ministers' Questions and Sunday With Adam Boulton are digested and presented on the site in text, picture and video form.



We've had a wealth of success with the changes we've made so far. Our stories and blog entries have been picked up by everyone from the Independent to the Spectator, from the Guardian to the Drudge Report.



But we're not stopping there.



We're developing a Polls section of the site which will feature a monthly Sky Poll of Polls;



We will launch "Desktop Boulton" (working title!), an alert service featuring an online version of Adam who walks onto your screen to deliver the latest political news;



And we'll harness the onscreen talents of our correspondents to provide video explanation of key issues as they arise.



We hope to do for online journalism what the Sky News channel has done for television journalism.



We aim to become the fastest, most comprehensive, independent site for politics on the internet.



Please take a look at the site. And get in touch to let us know what you think - either on the Boulton & Co Blog, or by sending me an email.
JO
Joe
ginnyfan posted:
She won't have to do 4 hours a day, like a slave, and wil get more money.


Awww, poor thing, I didn't realise her hours were so long. And she practically gets paid the minimum wage.
GI
ginnyfan
I think it's too much for 1 presenter, if it was 2 then it wouldn't be so bad.
FO
fodg09
Intersting to see Derek Tedder presenting Sky.com News tonight.
ST
STV Today
fodg09 posted:
Intersting to see Derek Tedder presenting Sky.com News tonight.


Wow - this new schedule with set presenters is getting off to a flying start!!
JO
Joshua
24th October, oh how very different everything was in 2005!
GI
ginnyfan
OMG, I didn't even remember. Can you imagine how good it would be if thet kept the relunch schedule.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Is Paula Middlehurst still with the channel?
GI
ginnyfan
Yes, she was on last weekend I think, but in this crazy new schedule I don't think she'll have a lot of work. They use Samantha more and more.
LO
Londoner
Tim Marshall now has a blog.
JO
Joshua
Quite funny that Ginny written an article in the Daily Mail yesterday, the same day 2 years ago she was presenting SNT with Steve and Mark.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=489364&in_page_id=1879
The stare's still there!

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