Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

All the more reason why it's still such a puzzling setup. The news channel ends up with a backdrop not of a newsroom and not of a space that is all too broadcast-friendly. It's not bad — I think it actually looks alright, especially with the lightboxes added around recently and with less use of what is supposed to be the big money shot of the atrium. But it's so very clearly a space designed by architects and high level executives, not any news journalists/executives or broadcast designers. At least that's my guess.

Then again, the opposite — building an entire building like a studio and making people work out of a windowless newsroom, as is what the current/old building is — isn't any better either.

With all that said, I'm interested to see what the forthcoming studio will look like.

In the last few weeks I've noticed them using the space a little more on screen (e.g. interviewing some first time voters in an informal area just off screen) which I thought worked pretty well.

While I can imagine that it is easy to say, but a lot harder to do in reality, I really like the glass box but I wish that more use was made of the rest of the building for smaller features. As Skygeek said, I probably feel this way because of how the BBC use the space, but it would be nice to have prehaps a touch screen TV on one of the balconies (like the BBC do with Outside Source) and for Sky to be able to use it to present a programme or feature from.

Maybe this isn't the purpose of the building, but I do think it is a shame if that is the case for them not to have designed it in a way which would make it easier to broadcast (on a small scale) from outside the box a bit more.

If you like the way Outside Source is done, you'll certainly like one element of what we'll be doing. That's all I'll say for now.

Outside Source is the naffest and most unnecessarily complicated news show on TV. I hope whatever you're hinting at isn't *too* similar.

The touch screen is a gimmick, but it's not a bad bulletin and more accessible than some of the standard BBC News/World News bulletins.

I've just tuned into Sky News for the first time in about a year and I have to say, it's a shadow of its former self. It looks and feels very much like one of those low budget African news channels found in the 800s on the Sky EPG.

The title and headline music is really naff and old fashioned. They haven't properly updated the music for 12 years and it shows.

The top-of-the-hour intro looks like a TV Forum mock. Actually, no - I've seen far better work in the Mocks forum.

The studio with its journalists and cameramen in the background has largely been replaced by a hugely ugly and echoey glass box which appears to look out onto an empty regional airport terminal.

It used to be the channel which set the bar. It even hides its HD feed behind a paywall - so the vast majority of viewers who don't pay a monthly Sky subscription - like me - have to watch it in old school SD.

So what the hell has happened to Sky News? Any Sky insiders know if Sky News is ever going to sort itself out or just decline into nothing like the ITV News Channel did?

I can exclusively reveal that we plan to continue being just as rubbish as you think we are,, perhaps even moreso. After all, it's what we go to work every day to do!


In case it's not clear, I'm kidding!

Have you been at the sherry, Mr. Meldrew?

I'm not a fan of Outside Source, and it's nothing to do with the gimmicky touchscreen.......

Hope your similar outing doesn't have someone dressed like Paul Weller operating said screen........

I know why the opening is the way it is, Its works on Mobile, table and on your TV. I do wish it was less white.

Also whos covering the day shift for the election? is it Kay and Dermont?

According to the freeview EPG, Dermot is covering till around two or three and then Kay is covering. I think Ian king live will go as planned and Adam Boulton will be presenting sky news tonight (probably covering the election mostly but maybe some other stories if they're big enough

My Freeview EPG has Dermot from 0600-1300, Gillian and Niall 1300-1500, Gamal (has to be an error) 1500-1600, Kay 1600-1900, Adam 1900-0000. At a guess, Kay will replace Dermot at 1pm.