Sky News: Presentation Discussion

I like the music.

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The darker blues and reds are so much classier than the previous colours used. Really impressed.

Dammit, I was too busy catching up on this thread I missed the TOTH at 17:00.. LOL!!

Thanks for the side by side screenshots by the way - a great way of comparing side by side. Cheers!

Don't like the font. Bring back the old ones.

I'd be seriously interested in how they can control two sets of graphics on screen and direct everything in both SD and HD simulataneously. Must be very difficult...

Surprised they took the election graphics away so early, Would have been handy if you were just getting in from work. I expected them to vanish later this evening.

Awesome TOTH, great graphics too. It looks better in the HD images than the SD one though - I prefer the single-line.

Simply fantastic. Everything looks and sounds so much classier than before. Long needed update.

Stephen Dixon enjoyed the new openers aswell!

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I think the font on the straps could do with being made a few points smaller on the SD channel - would make it look a bit neater I reckon.

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Video of the new TOTH in SD.

The lower thirds on SD aren't all that disimilar than what came before - everything's still in the same place and in the same colour. Far more swish animations though.

Glad to see they've retained the melody from the main theme (which now must be Sky News' longest, this particular melody first surfaced in what, 2003 or thereabouts??) although I'll miss the old headline bed from 2005.