Sky News

http://www.jointhebiggerpicture.com/Learning/ReachfortheSky/SkyYoungJournalist/SkyBreakingnews.aspx

Not sure how many of you will have seen this video but I think its worth a watch. Basically it follows breaking news from when it arrives at Sky Centre all the way through to the on screen coverage.

The News24 bits are hilarious...

Interesting to see Bed 2 from the 2005 music package make a return in that video! Agreed, the News 24 snippets are comic genius! Have to love students!

Interesting - have they already ditched the programme title tablets on the newswall TOTH? I cannot recall seeing this on Sky News at Ten.

haha... the bits about News 24 are hillarious!
but i think i saw them before on YouTube...

Yeh, totally hilarious! NOT. Considering the BBC at the time were providing a simulcast around the world in their news programme, I hardly think a little earth tremor in the Midlands could be considered earth shattering news (excuse the pun)

More fool Sky News for being so reactionary to a little wobble. Hardly an earthquake, ask those who have truly suffered a proper earthquake.

It's a fair point, but would the average viewer have known that?

I remember the following day when people at work were discussing what had happened - they all turned the TV on and they all ended up watching Sky News because it was not mentioned on the BBC...

Perhaps the Beeb could of put a strap up for the UK - who knows?

Bet you 50 bucks it was mentioned after the 1st minute of that summary. Thats quite an amateur thing to put in a video like that.... rather embarrassing if you ask me!

The point is the BBC failed to even adequately cover a story of big domestic interest.

Yes, it wouldn't have fitted into a BBC World simulcast, but the issue is why N24 didn't opt out. A British news channel (funded by Brits) should be ensuring it gives better British coverage than a commercial channel.

The "eathquake" was reported on the ticker and mentioned at about 1.15 when BBC World went to a break. There was also an in depth summary of what had happened straight after the 1.30 headlines when BBC World had opted out.

News 24 couldn't have opted out because they were producing the overnight service at the time. Unlike now, they could not output and transmit two different things as they can now (as seen with the Mumbai Attacks on the 10 IIRC). The only way they could've "opted out" was to put the World studio into action, get another presenter in to cover, move World back, end the simulcast and continue like that. Hardly worth it for a small temor I think.

By having such a overly-complicated set-up N24 is seriously restricted overnight. No one running a news channel can say at the time whether a story is "hardly worth it".

The point- again- is that a news channel funded by Brits, failing to cover home news properly (regardless of what we think of the story 9 months later) is a serious problem.

Hmm - is this a reconstruction or were they really covering the team that night? Very misleading if it is a reconstruction...

As for the student stuff - a bit childish isn't it? It may not be ideal that News 24 and World are jointly produced overnight - and thus a minor earth tremor in the UK didn't displace arguably more important global news in the front-half hour (though it did feature on the ticker) - would it be justified for BBC World News and the BBC News Channel to run duplicate services overnight (which would cost both services more?)