However, if it wasn't for the fact that Anna kept referring to the terribleness of the situation in every sentence and every few seconds (honestly - I'm not making it up), I wouldn't even have noticed probably. I guess it was the rolling-news element.
However, one thing that I also noticed was during the next shift presented by Hannah Tallet (?), she was being clearly very much more deliberate to stick to the facts and was less speculative and emotional about the story.
I guess that is also possibly due to the fact that the story was now more mature by that time and more solid facts were known?
Anyway, it was an issue that did immediately strike me at the time, to the extent I thought it worth mentioning here.
It was the type of story Sky love last night and they milked it for all it was worth. They had very little new to report for most of the night but they rolled on it for about 5 hours. The single expert studio guest went on and on speculating which very little actual information.
I'm pretty sure that when it was announced that the suspect had been found they were in a break?
I've dipped in and out of Sky News and they don't seem to show or even say the name ITV News, regarding the interview the suspect gave. The BBC have shown clips and mentioned it as it will probably become quite important. In America the networks are quiet happy to name each other, and ofter refer to them as 'friends'. It is strange that they all seem to be bitter rivals here.
I've dipped in and out of Sky News and they don't seem to show or even say the name ITV News, regarding the interview the suspect gave. The BBC have shown clips and mentioned it as it will probably become quite important. In America the networks are quiet happy to name each other, and ofter refer to them as 'friends'. It is strange that they all seem to be bitter rivals here.
I think in the US, each network knows that they have their own market. Fox News is unlikely to be gaining viewers from MSNBC, for instance. Here, as news is more 'partisan', I think there can be a lot more fluidity in where audiences get their news.
DH
Daniel H
I really don't get why Sky have set themselves up at Tower Bridge today / tonight - there's absolutely no atmosphere. The lighting all day has looked really gloomy.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to locate to the spot Nick Powell has been presenting from?
A normal business report went through the break and delayed the TOTH and went until 19:00. Philippa Tomson then went into the main story without the main stories. Quite odd.
Very strange TOTH just now, Tadhg Enright was doing a report on Facebook which was still going on as the clock turned to 7pm, TOTH graphic sequence started during his last word of a sentence, and after the graphic sequence went straight to Phillipa Tomson with no voiceover or headlines.
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richard h
Edit, beaten to it
That was odd they seemed to be going to a break at 18:56 and the music played for ages then we cut back to Philippa Tomson who introduced a report on facebook by Tadhg Enright, about 19:00:30 the TOTH played and then after the first headline the music faded out and cut to Philippa Tomson who started reading the intro to the first report
Also have the ad break times changed in the 8 & 9pm hours? I thought it was about 20:20, 20:40 and 20:56 but last night they had 4 breaks in the hour, I've also noticed this week them having an ad break about 21:20, Usually there isnt a break until just before the press preview at 21:30 but the breaks seem to last about 2 minutes each so maybe this is to give the press preview an extra couple of minutes
Very strange TOTH just now, Tadhg Enright was doing a report on Facebook which was still going on as the clock turned to 7pm, TOTH graphic sequence started during his last word of a sentence, and after the graphic sequence went straight to Phillipa Tomson with no voiceover or headlines.
I noticed that too. She was looking down at her desk a lot, at her notes presumably. Maybe a technical glitch with the autocue?
First there was the usual "coming up" sequence, then a long pause, before going into the report on Facebook at 18:57. Then it faded into the graphics and the top story from 19:00.
I'd guess this is probably a costly technical error as far as Sky's advert revenue is concerned.
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Daniel H
Not quite Sky News related, but Sky News studio related...
Surprised to see Desmonds / Five's 'The Health Lottery' are still drawing their lottery balls from the former Five News studio / set at Sky's studios, would have thought they'd have moved this once they moved the news contract to ITN.
Not quite Sky News related, but Sky News studio related...
Surprised to see Desmonds / Five's 'The Health Lottery' are still drawing their lottery balls from the former Five News studio / set at Sky's studios, would have thought they'd have moved this once they moved the news contract to ITN.
It isn't filmed at Sky Studios.. Studio C is now used as a 'Technical Equipment Area', according to @gmanistan
