With a new PM installed perhaps Boulton can go to bed, Burley can be restricted to the studio and Sky can start working on their broken journalistic reputation.
We can only hope - the BBC needs strong competition, but that competition needs to be honest...
Here is a couple of odd things that happened on either side of a break...
[media:0c8fbed4c5]http://up.metropol247.co.uk/davidlees/sky_news_2_problems.flv[/media:0c8fbed4c5]
Jayne Secker really is a very impressive presenter.
If I was John Ryley in the coming weeks I would meet with the team to assess what they did right and wrong but I would also try and hold some sort of discussions with Labour to try ensure that relations don't deteriorate and perhaps to question what appears to have been a Labour smear campaign against Sky that caused Adam to get so upset yesterday.
I don't think the credibility issues are as bad as people state, I suspect the majority of people are unaware of criticisms and I would suggest that most would not see any bias in the coverage anyway. Obviously there have been some high profile moments such as Adam's yesterday along with Kay's on Saturday but as far as I am concerned the only issues in terms of impartiality have involved Jeff Randall. Sky is no better or worse than their rivals and I include the BBC in that. I think it is easy to forget that Sky has had some high ratings during this campaign, including their highest ever for the debate. I would suggest that Sky are pretty pleased with how things have gone.
The new Sky News acive is such a climb down , back to 2000...4 screens now. and no fullscreen option. Cant stand looking at weather maps at this tiny size...
Not a huge surprise - unfortunately "interactive TV" never seemed to take off in the way it was predicted and Sky News Active was conspicuously absent from any press releases regarding Election coverage.
A shame, especially ditching the full screens, but not surprising at all. Indeed one area where Sky News is more advanced in Australia with it's 24 hour Sky News Local service.
A shame, especially ditching the full screens, but not surprising at all. Indeed one area where Sky News is more advanced in Australia with it's 24 hour Sky News Local service.
While the Sky News Local service is a good idea, the product isn't really that good. As Sky News is partly owned by the Seven & Nine networks, the Sky News Local interactive service is pretty much mostly made up of a repeating loop of local news reports that are aired on Seven & Nine News. Although there is some original content on the services, like speeches, local parliament coverage & original shows.
Presumably running 4 or 8 full-screen streams took a significant amount of transponder bandwith. Now Sky News HD has launched they are presumably using a significant amount of bandwith for that (albeit in DVB-S2 on a different transponder) - so reducing the DVB-S requirements for Sky News Active allows them to allocate that space to other SD services?
News multiscreens are not as popular as people envisaged I don't think - though sport multiscreens are proving popular. I think a lot of people are shifting to the web for deeper news coverage, and embedded video in webpages is a good fit for that. People still want to watch sporting events on a big telly though - so interactive TV is a good fit for that.
