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Magoo
desirorevolution posted:
Tessa Chapman on the 8 - 10 shift if anyone cares, never seen her before so I assume she's a freelancer?

Nope, she's a Sky reporter and has presented overnight a few times.
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Worzel
Lost The Remote posted:
Worzel posted:
Also, I have it on good authority that on 19th November (International Mens Day) it will be male presenters only *and* only male reporters too!

Long day for Francis Wilson then unless Sky sign another male weather presenter in the next 8 months!

Since it's a Friday, the only slots which will be anchored by a male that aren't normally anyway will be Afternoon Live and the evening NSW.

desirorevolution posted:
Tessa Chapman on the 8 - 10 shift if anyone cares, never seen her before so I assume she's a freelancer?

She's normally a reporter.


Yes, equal opportunities and all that - Sky only employ one male weather presenter, they need to sort than inequality out.
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SM21
have to say I thought Dharshini David was fantastic on JRL Very Happy

just wondering if anyone knew where Nina De Roy has disappeared to - is she still with sky?
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Pete19
Lost The Remote posted:
Sky News schedule today 08.03.10 International Women's Day

0600 Sunrise with Anna Botting
0900 The Live Desk with Charlotte Hawkins
1000 Sky News Today with Sarah Hughes
1300 The Live Desk with Gillian Joseph
1400 Afternoon Live with Kay Burley
1700 Live at Five with Anna Jones
1900 SkyNews.com with Sarah Hughes
1930 Jeff Randall Live with Dharshini David
2000 News, Sport and Weather
2200 Sky News at Ten with Jayne Secker

I've noticed the wide shots and pans at the TOTH have been a bit more adventurous than usual today.


Paula Middlehurst should have got Sky News Today IMO!!!
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ginnyfan
Paula is so underused by Sky News, it's a shame an average presenter like Gillian gets better gigs than their veteran Paula. Confused

With the changes in schedule after ditching double anchoring Sky really lost on the quality when it comes to female presenters. They have only 2 big names that have a weekday slot - Kay & Botting. Lorna is next with a normal weekend bulletin but that's not enough. Jones is wasted on biz updates, Paula on 15 minute crap and others are just random names freelancing and doing those news updates. It's a shame really cause they used to have a strong female line up.
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jpeg987
http://blogs.news.sky.com/editorsblog/Post:2d018b42-5b48-45d4-af6f-ae961087c141

Kate McAndrew,Executive Producer of Afternoon Live on today's all female cast.
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Pete19
ginnyfan posted:
Paula is so underused by Sky News, it's a shame an average presenter like Gillian gets better gigs than their veteran Paula. Confused

With the changes in schedule after ditching double anchoring Sky really lost on the quality when it comes to female presenters. They have only 2 big names that have a weekday slot - Kay & Botting. Lorna is next with a normal weekend bulletin but that's not enough. Jones is wasted on biz updates, Paula on 15 minute crap and others are just random names freelancing and doing those news updates. It's a shame really cause they used to have a strong female line up.


Exactly!!!

Botting IMO is really under used. She has her own slot but it more, filling in on other slots than she does on her own. She should be back on Live at 5 with JT!

Anna Jones should be back on Sky News Today with Dermot and Mark L should be back on the afternoons with Kay "The witch" Burley.

Martin Stanford should be on longer at night with a female partner such as Lorna or even Gillian. With Sunrise ditching Eammon and going back to double header with a fresh team, new faces which sunrise has been known to do in the past! eg Dunkley, Kaplinsky
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Magoo
ginnyfan posted:
Paula is so underused by Sky News, it's a shame an average presenter like Gillian gets better gigs than their veteran Paula. Confused

I believe the fact that Paula only works weekends is personal preference as she has young children.
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excel99
ginnyfan posted:
Paula is so underused by Sky News, it's a shame an average presenter like Gillian gets better gigs than their veteran Paula. Confused

Gillian doesn't get many good slots either. Sky News at 10 or a Live Desk very occasionally. Otherwise it's just headlines for her

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Since it's a Friday, the only slots which will be anchored by a male that aren't normally anyway will be Afternoon Live and the evening NSW.

Plus the headline updates and the business (though Joel Hills could do them). They'd probably have to let Jason de la Pena see daylight again!
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ukjds
Pete19 posted:
Martin Stanford should be on longer at night with a female partner such as Lorna or even Gillian. With Sunrise ditching Eammon and going back to double header with a fresh team, new faces which sunrise has been known to do in the past!


How about Steve Dixon and Lorna Dunkley for Sunrise?
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fusionlad Founding member
To be fair Eamonn and the team are getting the best ratings for a very long time. I think they have a good team, despite me taking a while to warm to Eamonn.
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Lost The Remote
fusionlad posted:
To be fair Eamonn and the team are getting the best ratings for a very long time. I think they have a good team, despite me taking a while to warm to Eamonn.

Actually it seems to be weekend Sunrise that is rating best at the moment despite all the advertising plugging the weekday version with Eamonn. Ratings for w/e 28th Feb:

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1 SKY NEWS AT TEN (SAT 2200) 241,000
2 NEWS SPORT WEATHER (SAT 2130) 202,000
3 SUNRISE WITH CHRIS ROBERTS (SUN 0933) 177,000
4 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0900) 162,000
5 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0800) 160,000
6 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (FRI 0800) 148,000
7 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (FRI 0732) 141,000
8 SUNRISE WITH CHRIS ROBERTS (SUN 0900) 139,000
9 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0836) 136,000
10 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0936) 133,000


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