I hate people who come on fora and say "I told you so".
But I just can't help myself.
As I've been saying for months, you can't spend £20m relaunching a news channel, lose viewers and expect to keep your job.
He should have gone a long, long, long time ago IMO. I'm amazed he's lasted this long, but I predicted that he, alongside the ATV schedule, would be history by 12 months after relaunch.
I think it's safe to say that Rubin will be gone within hours of Pollard leaving Osterley for the last time.
I hate people who come on fora and say "I told you so".
But I just can't help myself.
As I've been saying for months, you can't spend £20m relaunching a news channel, lose viewers and expect to keep your job.
He should have gone a long, long, long time ago IMO. I'm amazed he's lasted this long, but I predicted that he, alongside the ATV schedule, would be history by 12 months after relaunch.
I think it's safe to say that Rubin will be gone within hours of Pollard leaving Osterley for the last time.
If you wanted the other headlines, why didn't you press red for Sky News Active?
You'll lose.
I'm hardly going to allow sky to line their pockets with my money am I?Oh don't tell me you do, oh more fool you, eh? I don't care who I pick a fight with. OK
Oh cat.....don't go on my account.
Err - Sky News and Sky News Active are both free to air services (I'm pretty certain the Active bit still is, the TV channel certainly is).
You need give Mr Murdoch nothing at all to access either service - you don't even need a Sky branded receiver to receive the video of the services - even a PC satellite card will do it...
If you wanted the other headlines, why didn't you press red for Sky News Active?
You'll lose.
I'm hardly going to allow sky to line their pockets with my money am I?Oh don't tell me you do, oh more fool you, eh? I don't care who I pick a fight with. OK
Oh cat.....don't go on my account.
Err - Sky News and Sky News Active are both free to air services (I'm pretty certain the Active bit still is, the TV channel certainly is).
You need give Mr Murdoch nothing at all to access either service - you don't even need a Sky branded receiver to receive the video of the services - even a PC satellite card will do it...
I can get Sky News for free on both 28.2E amd 19.2E with the Sky News Active service all on my non Sky receiver
it is getting increasingly worse, and going steadily downmarket. Last week Lve at 5's top stroy was the England footie job, what sort of a main news story is that for a NEWS channel?
Quite a big one, actually.
I can't think of a time when a new England manager has been appointed and he hasn't been the top story, not just on Sky but on practically every other outlet on TV.
You've got no idea what you're talking about.
Hey thats your opinion. Its a NEWS channel, sure it should have been one of the headlines but not up the top as the FIRST story. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You obviously have no idea what your saying. They have a dedicated sports news channel. Stick it on that. There are plenty of other decent stories they could have covered, its just because its ATV. Go back to your News of the World or Sunday Mirror.
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P*** off, you f***ing c***.
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I hate people who come on fora and say "I told you so".
But I just can't help myself.
As I've been saying for months, you can't spend £20m relaunching a news channel, lose viewers and expect to keep your job.
He should have gone a long, long, long time ago IMO. I'm amazed he's lasted this long, but I predicted that he, alongside the ATV schedule, would be history by 12 months after relaunch.
I think it's safe to say that Rubin will be gone within hours of Pollard leaving Osterley for the last time.
EDIT: By the way- welcome back Cat...I know that you'll disagree with almost everything I've just written, but I hope you stick around to tell me why. It hasn't quite been the same around here since we lost your regular postings.
I might be wrong but I'm sure I've read in the guardian and evening standard media sections that Dawn Airey is the one who's been keeping Rubin on air and that preassue to keep him was coming from outside of Sky News?
The head of Sky News is to quit, following an expensive relaunch which failed to make a significant mark with viewers or critics.
BSkyB announced today that Nick Pollard, who has run the 24-hour news network for just over 10 years, would leave in September.
Sky made the statement after enquiries by the Guardian over the weekend. It said the decision to leave was entirely Mr Pollard's own.
A multi-million pound relaunch in October did not make a big difference to viewing figures. BBC News 24, launched in 1997, has edged ahead of Sky News in ratings, and won the best news channel award at this year's Royal Television Society journalism awards.
In January, Mr Pollard admitted that recent months had been "the toughest time in Sky News's history". Viewers did not take to shows built around high-profile presenters such as Eamonn Holmes and the former aide to Bill Clinton's administration, James Rubin.
There are other pressures: it is said that BSkyB wants to make budget cuts because of the increased cost of sports rights, the imminent launch of a high-definition TV service and a broadband package. Mr Pollard was said to be resistant to the cuts.
Sources also said that Mr Pollard believed ten years was long enough, and that Mr Pollard had worked "non-stop since 1968". Before the recent pressures, Sky has been the undisputed leader of 24-hour TV news in Britain, responsible for editorial and technological innovations that other broadcasters have copied.
BSkyB managers heaped praise upon Mr Pollard in the statement. James Murdoch, Sky's Chief Executive, said he was an "outstanding" leader. "Few people could claim to have done more than Nick Pollard to transform television news in this country."
Dawn Airey, Sky's Managing Director, Channels and Services, added: "Guided by his wisdom, tenaciousness and energy, Sky News has established itself as a world-class 24-hour news service. I'm extremely proud of Nick's achievements but I understand and respect his decision that after ten years of 6am starts, he has decided to take a break and seek new challenges."
Mr Pollard is widely respected in the British broadcast news industry for establishing Sky News's reputation for impartiality and fairness, confounding sceptics who said it would become beholden to the wishes of its majority shareholder, Rupert Murdoch. Mr Pollard is credited with resisting any attempt to make the network more like Fox, the Murdoch-owned US news network which is regarded as partisan.
He has been helped by the regulatory framework in Britain, which means broadcast news must be impartial by law.
In the statement, Mr Pollard said: "Being Head of Sky News is, in my view, the best job in broadcast journalism and I have had a fantastic ten years doing it. We have won numerous awards for our coverage of the momentous stories that have marked this past decade and have been responsible for every significant innovation within our industry. I am enormously proud of what we have achieved."
Never saw this one coming. Maybe he can get a job at BBC News 24. (COUGH).
I'm probably in a minority as I quite like James Rubin's programme, despite his lack of presenting experience.
If he were to stay in the long term perhaps a better way to use him would be to have him out on location more, with Tim Marshall anchoring in the studio, as was done recently.
Oh cat.....don't go on my account.