Well I remember watching sometime after 5pm (but before 6pm as I watched my local news) but Romilly Weeks was reporting live on the ITVNC about the shootings but I wasn't sure where she was reporting from.
ITVNC did infact take a live feed from ITV Yorkshire before Sky News had
any
live pictures.
People on this forum will always make out that Sky are always first with things even before checking their facts.
I think some people thought that because there was a fairly lengthy period after 6:30 where Look North had use of the sat truck (which is why ITV had a recorded bit from the scene) but moved away from the story for Children in Need stuff, and Jeremy Thompson said something like "these are the only live pictures from the scene on British TV right now".
I've been of work sick the last couple of days, and it's given me chance to look at Sky News during the day.
The afternoon Sky News Today seems to flow better than when I've caught it before. I guess they've gone back to what they're good at, delivering the news, rather than showing off their new studio at every opportunity. Still not sure about all 3 people around that little podium though, it was nice to see Steve and Mark at the main desk doing a normal looking link in front of the excellent newswall.
What do other people think, has it changed a lot since launch day? I never saw their output during the day from launch.
I've been of work sick the last couple of days, and it's given me chance to look at Sky News during the day.
The afternoon Sky News Today seems to flow better than when I've caught it before. I guess they've gone back to what they're good at, delivering the news, rather than showing off their new studio at every opportunity. Still not sure about all 3 people around that little podium though, it was nice to see Steve and Mark at the main desk doing a normal looking link in front of the excellent newswall.
What do other people think, has it changed a lot since launch day? I never saw their output during the day from launch.
Ugh, I disagree.
I saw the start of the afternoon 'Today' today and had to turn off for fear of throwing the TV out of the window.
''We want your views, we want you comments, your views matter''. Five minutes later ''why not send us an email, lots of emails about that, we want your opinions''. Another five minutes ''send us a text or an email about this, what do you think?''.
I DO NOT CARE what Doris from Skegness thinks about the police being armed. I do care what police officers think, what the Government thinks, etc. Where were the interviews?
The presenters are just dreadful, with this faux-jokey attitude towards anything. When they go from slapping each other around the heads (this actually happened the other day) to talking about the political situation in the Middle East it's very hard to take them seriously as newsreaders.
It is f*cking awful. The sooner they get rid of that trio the better.
As an aside: Is Kay Burley's show just about sport? So far every time I've seen it there's been some famous/random sportsperson on it. The first show was Andrew Flintoff, today we had Johnny Wilkinson for ten minutes and then about another ten minutes taken up with her report on Wigan Athletic Vs. Arsenal, then a sports update for another ten minutes!
Totally agree. It's just looks lazy to be canvassing so much 'opinion' from viewers and then spend 5 minutes reading out e-mails - why should i care what some random person thinks about the news of the day?
i actually think Mark Longhurst is one of Sky's better presenters though, not really one to be getting "rid of."
I think I must have caught it when they were actually doing some news, but yes, I did hear them ask us to text or e-mail in. Is there any improvement from day 1 at all? Surely they must be reading places like this to see what their audience thinks of it all?
Yep, they've definitely got the Five Live bug of 85058-ing every item (or in Sky's case 84501)...I suppose it's just laziness combined with making life easy for the presenter. Not sure what to say to link things together? Just mention the contact details and buy time.
Surely they must be reading places like this to see what their audience thinks of it all?
They probably are. They also have ratings and direct contacts too, but what you have to remember if that TV executives are incapable of admitting they have stuffed up, incapable of reverting back to an older version, and defend the indefensable to the hilt (eg the new logo is clean and more versatile - no, it is tabloid and as versatile as any single colour logo in a rectangle can be). You see, you the viewer are wrong. They are right. The worst they can be is "ahead of their time and ahead of their audience."
It has now reached the point where they will carry on with this until someone called Murdoch fires someone high up in Sky News (*cough* Pollard).
It is obvious that they are intent on carrying on with this collision course with oblivion (although ITVNC may beat them to it), as all the new presenters fail to show they are as good as the old ones they have sidelined or replaced, that the single anchor is incapable of working in a Breaking News scenario, that Rubin still can't read an autocue, that Jeremy still needs his Costello (answers to the name of Botting) etc. etc. etc.
You have to give them 10 out of 10 for persistence....
As an aside: Is Kay Burley's show just about sport? So far every time I've seen it there's been some famous/random sportsperson on it. The first show was Andrew Flintoff, today we had Johnny Wilkinson for ten minutes and then about another ten minutes taken up with her report on Wigan Athletic Vs. Arsenal, then a sports update for another ten minutes!
Don't forget Patrick Viera as well. It's getting a bit boring now I agree. It got worse when Will Young showed up promoting his new film. It's like a bloody magazine show and not a news programme.
Well Live at Five seems to be slightly better than when I watched it relaunch week. Though some of the silly "let's go worldwide now" phrases are still completely annoying and unneccessary.
Also haven't seen it mentioned - but the ads are now in 16:9 so there's no more nasty switching at the beginning and end of breaks.
If I have to hear him say "inna-nashnul nooooooooooos" once more then I'm going to scream. I hate his horrible nasal voice, I hate the way his head is always turned away from the camera as if he's reading the autocue (badly) off the next camera.
Please please please get rid of him - put someone decent in that slot for crying out loud.
