Sky News

I notice on the Sky News HD channel we're now getting some music along with the countdown graphics. Sounds like the coming up bed on a loop.

Apologies if the music has always been there. Perhaps my TV was on mute last night.

Sky just did a live 2-way with a correspondent live on the Lib Dem battle bus, using some sort of video over IP over 3G set-up. It worked fairly well, save for the delay between Kay cueing the correspondent (from an OB) and him actually starting talking. Shame that he then started with 'hi Kay, how are you' - which was then followed by a 7 second gap before he realised that her answer may take a while...

They did a similar thing with Joey Jones sitting on a train towards the start of the election coverage a week or so ago. The pictures and sound broke up for a second or two and they gave up on it. Kay Burley apologised for the loss of pictures and moved on to something else despite the fact that by the time she started apologising, the pictures had come back and we could hear Joey Jones speaking. Glad to hear they gave it a second try.

Forgot to mention, I found this yesterday lying around across the road from the Houses of Parliament...

That's also the E-Magazine that's online at the moment.

they're giving them out at rail stations too. looks very smart.

Hahaha! Even in print format they can't get away from that breaking news bar!

Sky seemed to have hacked into itv's feed from Manchester where the pm was being interviewed by itv's Lucy manning.

DEBATE DAY - Scuppered by Volcanic Ash, though it has meant Jeremy Thompson is anchoring as the drama unfolds!

Eamon mentioned on Sunrise that they were supposed to be talking about the debate, but had be blown over instead by the ash. Quite a few don't know about it, as they seemed to have not bothered watching Sky, ITV or BBC as they thought they'd just talk about the debate.

Or perhaps its ITVs turn to provide the live pool pictures today, just as sky did the other day
http://twitter.com/niallpaterson/status/12036025879

Colin Brazier now at Heathrow for continuing coverage of the travel situation

Always find it amazing how big stories come in two's. No doubt Sky have been planning today for weeks if not months and now it's fallen to second on the agenda due to this major breaking story.