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Sky News HD Launches 9pm tonight (February 2009)

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JO
Joe
I thought you were talking about the style of graphics - not the sidebar. If so, perhaps, but I still don't think it will be well-known enough for it to be such a selling point.
BR
Brekkie
It could work the other way though and see people switching back to 501 to watch it without the side bar.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
My guess is those panels will only be shown at peak time on the main shows. Which would explain why it says on the press release that they will start on Monday 10th. They will be talking about the election all day on the the 7th, and then it's the weekend when news is generally slower.
DE
derek500
No TOTH v/o for the News at Ten, but on the caption, Stephen (Dixon) is Steve again!!
BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
It may only be an example but that cap shows how pointless that sidebar will actually be. They're rarely of interest when they cross to shots of just one front door waiting for something to happen, never mind four!


Some of the other uses of it look quite interesting:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_zJL0J24N2E8/S9tJTalXs7I/AAAAAAAAADo/P1-v_9x-fDc/sky_sidebar.jpg

Depends how they end up using it, really, but it looks neat enough not to get in the way and could end up being useful. We'll find out in just over a week.
JO
Joe
Looks a lot more useful than I anticipated. Hopefully it won't be superfluous like the breaking news ticker. We know how these things can start off good and being used well and end up annoying!
DA
Dave Founding member
Steve Dixon has left Sky News!!!!

He was replaced this morning by Stephen Dixon.


A few Tweets from Eamonn this morning confirming he's not going to GMTV.

Stephen Dixon still Steve on Sky EPG and Sky Programme information website!!


Sky News have updated all of their brochures of the Press Office site, worth taking a look!!


Still ´Steve' Dixon!!


No TOTH v/o for the News at Ten, but on the caption, Stephen (Dixon) is Steve again!!


Don't mean to be rude but... does it need to be mentioned every time it happens?
BR
Brekkie
They just seem information for the sake of information IMO. Some though are more useful than others and I think things like the business one and ones for the weather would by the sort of thing which offers information which can't really be relayed on the ticker.

Do we know if it will appear during reports too, or is it just during studio shots?
MA
Magoo
Do we know if it will appear during reports too, or is it just during studio shots?


Studio shots and lives, I think.
MD
mdtauk
I watched the Sky News Press Preview yesterday, and found Steve Dixon to be really unfair to the woman from the telegraph. He sided with Pro Tory and Pro Thatcher James Max to criticise every point she was trying to make.

I used to like Steve Dixon, but he seems to be falling into the Tory Bias Zone along with Jeff Randal!
DE
derek500
I watched the Sky News Press Preview yesterday, and found Steve Dixon to be really unfair to the woman from the telegraph. He sided with Pro Tory and Pro Thatcher James Max to criticise every point she was trying to make.


Jasmin Alibhai-Brown is from the Independent, not The Telegraph.
MD
mdtauk
I watched the Sky News Press Preview yesterday, and found Steve Dixon to be really unfair to the woman from the telegraph. He sided with Pro Tory and Pro Thatcher James Max to criticise every point she was trying to make.


Jasmin Alibhai-Brown is from the Independent, not The Telegraph.


My mistake, you are right. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from the Independent

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