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(April 2008)

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noggin Founding member
Lost The Remote posted:
Richard Henwood doing the sport tonight. Haven't seen him on the channel for a very long time.


Goodness - a blast from the past. Wasn't he an Anglia News sports presenter at one point?
SM
SM21
Really enjoying Sky.Com News tonight with Martin covering the second part live from some sort of control centre. Sky.Com News should do this sort of thing more often IMO.
GI
gillw72
WTF is that STORM WATCH box doing on the screen.

Completely pointless.
JP
jpeg987
scott.milne posted:
Really enjoying Sky.Com News tonight with Martin covering the second part live from some sort of control centre. Sky.Com News should do this sort of thing more often IMO.


Agreed really enjoyed it,great to see them going to the control room. It's always nice to see them make an effort to try something different.
SM
SM21
Sky.Com News becomes SkyNews.Com from Monday. Only a minor change but it took them long enough.
CO
Connews
scott.milne posted:
Sky.Com News becomes SkyNews.Com from Monday. Only a minor change but it took them long enough.


I do find it quite a shame that Martin Stanford has been demoted to such a paltry slot. I liked it when he was on Sky News Today and Saturday Live. If he had much more of a presence on the channel during the weekdays things would be much, much better, even if he only did that two hour slot on a weekend.

On the ageism front, it is not like Martin is "behind the times." First there was Technofile and now Sky.com News in his sky rocket! (Excuse the pun.)
FO
fodg09
Just looking at the ratings on the BARB website and in the w/e 24/08/08 the BBC had an amazing 3 times the audience of Sky News. Is this because of the Olympics?

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=multichannel&requesttimeout=500&flag=viewingsummary
MA
Manxy
fodg09 posted:
Just looking at the ratings on the BARB website and in the w/e 24/08/08 the BBC had an amazing 3 times the audience of Sky News. Is this because of the Olympics?

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=multichannel&requesttimeout=500&flag=viewingsummary

Yes, BBC had Breakfast only on the News Channel and it averaged around 200,000 compared to the normal 35,000
DA
David
scott.milne posted:
Sky.Com News becomes SkyNews.Com from Monday. Only a minor change but it took them long enough.


Next project: Change the URL on the Sky News Active loading screen.
LR
Lost The Remote
Anna Jones presenting from the news desk for a change for the 8pm news with Joel Hills on hand to analyse Brown's speech. 15 minute bulletins gone out the window to cover this which seems sensible - although confusingly they still introduced it as such.
JW
JamesWorldNews
I saw a report on Sky a couple of weeks ago, presented by a young male reporter with the surname "Suchet". Is he related to JS? He did have some similarities in appearance and diction. The report was something to do with the Thames (I think).
FO
fodg09
Live At One starting tomorrow,do we know if it will be the same old from the desk rubbish or will it be in some way new and different?

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