Sky News: Presentation Discussion

Looks like he's had his knuckles rapped and he's taken down the post

Well as you're on of the few who still has it, could you upload the picture?

Wow, looks like a lot of work going on,

http://twitter.com/Cliff/status/377830906771566593/photo/1

Hope that as well as upgrading the wall they can rejig that area to make it a bit more useful - it is a spare part in its current form (current before the building work that is!).

It looks like the whole news wall has been taken out. HD replacement on its way?

Quite sad that something Sky has had in one form or another for 13 (?) years is going, presumably forever. Hopefully the anchor desk gets moved over a bit to the right (facing gallery) and a more appropriate video wall for weather and a backdrop gets made. Hopefully if they have anchors on location, they can use the wall like the BBC do for Newsday.

I knew what I'd done as soon as I'd left the house this morning! Has bugged me all day!

Looking at that latest photo, it makes me wonder if we are getting a studio similar to the sky news Arabia one? Could be possible with the rectangular shape, with little work to be done (except a new desk and platform in the former island location) if the new news wall is flatter rather than curved.

Why gone? I understand the newswall is beeing replaced, not removed?

Not really commonly watching Sky News, I'm incredibly impressed by both the Sky News team who have carried on from the studio despite the construction work and the construction team who must be working quite quietly, I mean its essentially building work and that isn't quiet. I suppose it's the advantage of having a large studio, when the BBC come to their next rebuild in about 5/6 years time the logistics are going to be a mess, it's not going to be like last time where they could decamp to TC9/10/11 or a corner of TC7 for a few weeks*. Although I assume then that Studio C would be refurnished at the same time as E. Anyway what am I doing this is the Sky News thread. I hope they end up with a Sky News Arabia style set as that really is very nice, it would fit in much better with the graphics as the titles have always been straight edged rather than curved like the set. I assume that Osterly isn't as big as the Sky News Arabia studio as that is huge and has many more 'areas' than the current set.

* Just to clear up I am aware that Nat could move to C and NC to A, I was more referring to a refit of B which would really cause problems.

I think Osterley is bigger than the Arabia set, it just happens to be that the new set at the top of the Osterley studio rather than in the centre.

I don't understand why the now make every changes step by step (toth business and backgrounds in mid 2012, graphics and sports in 2013 and now the studio) instead of waiting and do a complete relaunch with everything at the same time!

I am not sure the graphics and studio works are related. And the other changes were probably not planned at the same time, so are not part of a coherent plan for changes, but individual initiatives.

But a good idea for gradually brining in changes to a 24 hour operation is just to make it more manageable and be in a better position to handle fall-backs etc.