Sky News: Presentation Discussion

Not at all - sport is news and you can often learn more from a short bulletin on Sky News than watching a whole hour of Sky Sports News, especially if your definition of sport goes beyond football.

If and when Sky Sports News goes HD (they're a good five years later on going 16:9, so I wouldn't expect anything soon) I wonder then if like Sky News they'll have a similar dual operation with graphics 16:9 safe in HD and remaining 4:3 safe in SD.

Sky Sports News will be going HD when they move to the new Sky Sports Centre, which I believe is due to be in August (though there were rumours that it had been pushed back a year).

Sky Sports News is going HD in the Autumn but I don't think the new Sky Sports Centre will be fully operational until the new year. As far as the graphics are concerned there has been some suggestion that the HD version of SSN will have more on screen information than the SD channel. Anyway it is not as though they are dropping sport from Sky News, they are simple making it more efficient and cost-effective.

SSN goes HD this August. Expect to see them in a temporary studio during the summer in preparation. The move to Harlequin 1 takes place next year.

The 'Island' where Kay is presenting AL looks very dark this afternoon. Has a light blown above the desk or have they forgot to turn them on?

I don't think adding information would be wise as it may get to the point of information overload - but using the space more effectively is obviously a must.

Has Lauren Taylor presented Sky News Business before? She seems pretty good at it, if she had enough notes rather than having to look at the screen... Not sure about the new Business logo though - it would be better alongside the "Sky News" logo, rather then below.

Yes, Lauren Taylor has appeared a number of times in the past 6 months or so as cover on business. Nina (forget her surname) has disappeared though.

That would not fit in the same space occupied by the business graphic "slides", and may be too long to fit in shot.

Isn't this because Sky Sports News isn't classes as a news service. Remember reading (some time ago) that Sky would have to drop the amount of sponsorship they have or they would have to include a regular weather report?

No sure where I saw that though... probably on here!

That would be all well and good if Sky Sports News covered sports news. It doesn't. It covers football news very well, but ignores practically anything going on elsewhere unless Sky have the rights. For example in terms of rugby union coverage, it gives some coverage to the Heineken Cup and Guinness Premiership (AFTER its covered the football for a good chunk of the hour) but bearly mentions the Six Nations and completly ignores the Magners League.

During the last Olympics, the biggest sporting event in the world, Sky Sports News barely mentioned them while continuing to devote its time to football coverage.

Don't get me wrong, what Sky Sports News does it does very well. Gillette Soccer Saturday is extermely entertaining (and informative), but it means that for six hours, on the busiest sporting day of the week, Sky Sports News doesn't even pretend to cover any other sports - they are simply ignored. Now Soccer Saturday's remit is to cover soccer, but to exclude all other sports from a sports news channel for six hours is, to excuse the pun, just not cricket.

If this is to work, the Sky Sports News team will have to realise that (a) there are sports other than football and (b) they need to become more than just a promotional outlet for the other Sky Sports channels.

I love the headline bed on the SkyNews.com show. Much better than the boring, unlively new one at the moment on all other shows.