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Sky News HD Launches 9pm tonight (February 2009)

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FO
fodg09
Great online stream and analysis feed from Sky, 'Live Plus'

http://news.sky.com/skynews/LivePlus
BR
Brekkie
I think Tuesday could be the best night still. It's always going to be a compromise, but Champions League football on Sky doesn't seem to affect audience's on BBC/ITV that much. Having a debate scheduled against Eastenders or Coronation Street would probably affecting viewing figures more than football on Sky IMO

Tuesday night figures are down across the board and after 8pm, apart from Holby City even BBC1 and ITV1 are lucky to break 3m, and rarely pass 4m.

Sky News closed down for the day again today. What gives Lord Chilcott the authority to rule over an elected prime minister?
MA
Magoo
Magoo posted:
Guess there could be some live presentation from Westminster tomorrow then. Burley being given mugs of coffee again. That sort of thing.


Why does Burley get all the OB's these days? You never really see Dermot out and about.

Not really sure it's a concerted decision, apart from the fact that lots of stories seem to be developing during Afternoon Live and therefore she has to go where she's told. Also, it could be a matter of preference of the presenter themselves.

Was Dermot at the inquiry this morning or has Kay been there all day?
BR
breakingnews
Dermot is a 4 day a week man and his day off is Friday.
DA
Dave Founding member
Not sure how useful having a constant up thing on the left is of the screen is... all it is doing is repeated what is actually happening, and why could they not just use the text bar at the bottom of the screen to say what is being put on the left?
JP
jpeg987
Glad to see Kay Burley is keeping her opinions to herself saying,

"Tony Blair 1 The Panel 0"

Looks like Sky have a jib camera down outside the conference centre.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
Glad to see Kay Burley is keeping her opinions to herself saying,

"Tony Blair 1 The Panel 0"

Looks like Sky have a jib camera down outside the conference centre.


I think even the most neutral of observer would say that Tony Blair had the upper hand so far. I'm not sure she is suggesting she is happy with the outcome.
GI
gillw72
Posted by Orla earlier today on Twitter

Quote:
SkyNews team all watching promo for the new #SkyNews HD channel. Very impressive stuff.
GR
gregmc
gillw posted:
Posted by Orla earlier today on Twitter

Quote:
SkyNews team all watching promo for the new #SkyNews HD channel. Very impressive stuff.


Interesting stuff, when does Sky News HD actually launch? Spring could mean anything from March until June. I'd guess they'd have some output ready for the Election in May, but I'm hoping it would launch before then to iron out any glitches etc?
EX
excel99
Tuesday night figures are down across the board and after 8pm, apart from Holby City even BBC1 and ITV1 are lucky to break 3m, and rarely pass 4m.

Doesn't BBC2, C4 and Five have 'stronger' content on Tuesday's however. Take Tuesday this week BBC2 had 3.1 million at 9pm, Five 2.4 million and C4 almost 3 million (OK, this was CBB which ends tonight). Earlier BBC2 had 3.3 million for the Hairy Bikers and BBC3 had an decent 0.87 million at 8pm. So is the audience just split over more channels on a Tuesday?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/27/shameless-return-tv-ratings

Linking this back to the election debate, Sky had a Premier League football match on Tuesday night - while hardly as high profile as a Champions League game, it doesn't seem to have impacted audiences elsewhere too much compared to other Tuesdays (the ITV1/BBC1 figures were around the same as the normal figures you quoted). I'm really not sure what the concern over clashing with football on Sky is about, though as I posted earlier if ITV1 moved Corronation Street, 8.30 on a Monday could be a good slot
GI
gillw72
gillw posted:
Posted by Orla earlier today on Twitter

Quote:
SkyNews team all watching promo for the new #SkyNews HD channel. Very impressive stuff.


Interesting stuff, when does Sky News HD actually launch? Spring could mean anything from March until June. I'd guess they'd have some output ready for the Election in May, but I'm hoping it would launch before then to iron out any glitches etc?


I asked her, but she didn't commit on any dates. Just said "sooner rather than later". I am making the assumption it cant be far away if the promos are done.

Now they pretty much know the date of the election, they will probably launch and get it bedded in well before the election kicks in.
DA
David
I wonder if Sky News HD will be FTA like Sky News is. I think the chances are that it won't be but I'm surprised that Sky News is still FTA to be honest, so anything is possible.

Now that Sky have launched their new HD box, it looks like you can get hold of one of the older models for £49 without paying £10 a month for the HD package. If Sky News HD is FTA, this would be a good way to cheaply get three (Sky News, BBC and Luxe) HD channels.

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