Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Ofcom use both BARB and market research in their reports, they usually give widely different results. BARB gave the recent Joshua PPV boxing a peak audience of 1.3m but the promoter said it broke the previous 1.5m sales record. All buyers watching alone and many not bothering?

Why are they demolishing the old SKY NEWS STUDIOS ?? It's only 12 years old the building SHAME LIKE !!

It was a converted building, I think it was once a Tesco, or owned by Tesco. So the building was probably much older.

Part of a wider regeneration plan for the campus.

And literally if they put another light on the ceiling it would fall in

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The building was never part of the Tesco site. However, it's right next to its boundary. The decision back then was part of a different strategy focused on individual buildings. The set-up in Sky back in the day was more like a movie-lot set-up you'd see in the States. It was always very temporary and unsustainable. (Parking was an absolute nightmare). The new campus strategy is far more professional and reduces some of the space required. I think the long-term plan is to sell off some of the land where Sky News and the former Sky HQ building are at the moment.

Sky News sent out a test push alert. No big deal but I loved how they linked to this article entitled Trump and Putin had 'secret' second chat at G20 . Now my mind is wondering if this was a way to get the message out about President Trump even more or just a mistake. I mention this because the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal editorial board published a scathing review against Trump. And I'm reaching here could be a sign showing that the 21CF / Sky merger won't result in in a duplicate of Fox.

Since I'm to lazy to upload again here's a tweet I sent showing the test message and article:

So @SkyNews sent out a test push alert: "Test_notification 10:57". I click on it & links to an article about Trump/Putins 2nd meeting. pic.twitter.com/qcUWiaXz7B

— Ryan Olsen (@rkolsen) July 20, 2017

Edit : Full disclosure I wrote this right after I got an alert which was a few minutes after waking up. (5:50 AM).

I got that alert too. I throught the article was just the last article I had read on Sky News but then seeing your post confirm's that article was part of the notification.

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Nope. I've worked closely with that team (we literally shared desks for two-and-a-half years) and it's gotta link to something.. The people who - deliberately or otherwise - put out this push will have been techies, not journalists. If somebody did that as a "joke" with the same thought you had in your head, they'd be toast.

It occurs to me that whether it's anti-Murdoch conspiracy theories with zero basis of evidence (and the guardianship of Ofcom to ensure no such thing could ever happen), Dr. Who misogyny, or Daily Mail-infused anti-BBC bile over presenter's pay, the tinfoil-hattery on-display around here is making it a lot less-pleasant of a place to visit, and much more like the murky swamp that is the DS forums.

To the mods' credit, it looks like they've managed to rein in the worst offenders, but it's a slippery slope.

The natural response, and one I understand, is: "You're not a mod, and if you don't like it, sling your hook."

All I'm saying - and I've said this before in other threads unrelated to Sky - is that the standard-of-discourse we enjoy here is higher than that, and I very much hope it will be once more.

Just making some speculation. Surely there would be a fresher article to send an alert about.