I hope Eamonn's co-presenter is Charlotte Hawkins - the pair seem to have a very good partnership both on and off air. They would make a good team I think.
Its not out of the question, but Jacquie Beltrao is being lined up. As I said earlier, Sky want to cut down on its sports coverage, and sports presenters are looking to be re-deployed elswhere and possibly axing most of the sports bulletins and intregate them into the main news with just sport bulletins at weekends. Same with business news.
So what will happen to Anna Jones if Biz Bulletins are also being cut down?
9am - 12pm at the moment alongside Dermot if he is not moved.
I think cutting with all those useless news updates and biz updates done by special anchors would be a great decision. Main anchors of the bulletin can do it all, why waste Anna Jones on 4 min biz updates when she's a great presenter and can do any news.
Now if only I could find a stream for Sky, really want to watch it if all these changes do happen.
Hmmm, the beginning of the end for Sky Weather? All the forecasters now finish with "more information on the red button" and the website address is very prominent. You can tell Francis in particular resents having to end his forecast in this way. Must mean it is changing somehow.
Hmmm, the beginning of the end for Sky Weather? All the forecasters now finish with "more information on the red button" and the website address is very prominent. You can tell Francis in particular resents having to end his forecast in this way. Must mean it is changing somehow.
Not the end of the road, no plans to scrap it. They should however reintroduce the weather headline in the toth though.
Hmmm, the beginning of the end for Sky Weather? All the forecasters now finish with "more information on the red button" and the website address is very prominent. You can tell Francis in particular resents having to end his forecast in this way. Must mean it is changing somehow.
Not the end of the road, no plans to scrap it. They should however reintroduce the weather headline in the toth though.
Why? When the weather is shown literally 20 seconds before it?
The weather on Sky is currently shambolic. They have fantastic talent with Francis, Isobel, Lucy, and the other newer additions. However, it looks a mess. I hope with the move to HD, the newswall IS upgraded and then we will be able to see the weather graphics much more clearly, and not stretched along the newswall looking all pixelated and unclear.
I think they should also have a specific time for the weather, at :58 and :28, not at :36, :23, like I've seen in the past - its just inconsistent.
adding to the comments about the weather I also believe that a 2 minute weather forecast is not long enough. They should take their final break of the hour at :53 and give the weather another 2 minutes so it can be brought to us in a bit more detail
adding to the comments about the weather I also believe that a 2 minute weather forecast is not long enough. They should take their final break of the hour at :53 and give the weather another 2 minutes so it can be brought to us in a bit more detail
Two minutes is plenty, and I say this because the current problem seems to be the amount of stuff that's keeps going in between the return from commercial and the weather sponsor bumper. The current forecasts only seem to be about 65 seconds long on their own. We seem to see a lot of "this is the weather in <some country currently in the news>" and copious amounts of "look how hot it is in southern Spain, lots of rain here in Italy and belts of rain across Northern Africa".
May as well do it on the red button, to make a forecast that actually tells you something about the weather here.
<sarcasm alert> Wouldn't surprise me if weather forecasts get reduced to ten seconds along the lines of "look out your window. Black clouds probably mean it's going to rain." <end sarcasm>
I'd be interested to get people's thoughts on how RTÉ structure their forecast. (Scroll to 32:10) I maintain that's it's one of the better ones out there, purely because they run through the (quite detailed) European charts first, allowing you to truly see the bigger picture and see what systems are working their way towards Ireland. I much prefer this method to showing local charts only, where I find it's easy to get mixed up between which day's weather belongs to which once the forecast is over.
Sky show European charts too, but tend to focus more on weather elsewhere than showing what forces will be at play for the UK and Ireland. RTÉ's weather, like the BBC's and ITV's, shows the advantages of using CSO. It also helps of course that RTÉ's forecasts are fronted by state meteorologists
In a nutshell, which do you prefer? Sky's or RTÉ's?
