Does anyone else find it irritating that for a large amount of News at Ten, the ticker simply tells that you can see the papers at 10.30 - describing it as breaking news? For a sort of 'headline' show I'd prefer to have the actual news stories.
I do find it irritating because anyone who has watched Sky News in the last 5 years or so at 9pm onwards knows they do papers at 10:30pm and just before the ticker goes yellow they tell you on the programme who will be doing the papers anyway. The same thing happens in the 11pm hour. As soon as the last report finishes on news at 10 they trail the press preview again so is the constant reminder really needed?. It is usually called News Alert though rather than Breaking News as Connews says. Id also argue that if some breaking news is added to the ticker at that time you are less likely to see it as you just assume its the paper reminder.
Last edited by richard h on 1 September 2017 2:03pm - 3 times in total
Does anyone else find it irritating that for a large amount of News at Ten, the ticker simply tells that you can see the papers at 10.30 - describing it as breaking news? For a sort of 'headline' show I'd prefer to have the actual news stories.
Interesting that tonight they didn't do it. did someone forget or did someone make a decision to leave it off?
Edit - its back at 23:10
Last edited by richard h on 1 September 2017 11:12pm
Does anyone else find it irritating that for a large amount of News at Ten, the ticker simply tells that you can see the papers at 10.30 - describing it as breaking news? For a sort of 'headline' show I'd prefer to have the actual news stories.
Our usual practice is to have the normal ticker runnng for the first 15 minutes of the programme, and alert viewers to the papers for the following 15 minutes in the hope they stick around. Before the News at Ten refresh, it was for the whole half hour.
Hopefully it was described as a 'news alert' rather than 'breaking news' - but I must admit, that was a mistake I made once or twice when I was an on-screen text producer!
Interesting, if was definitely down as breaking news yesterday. I would personally prefer it if the papers feature was simply part of the rest of the ticker like the Sky Ocean Rescue information is. I don't think it's necessary to tell us constantly for 15+ minutes.
Does anyone else find it irritating that for a large amount of News at Ten, the ticker simply tells that you can see the papers at 10.30 - describing it as breaking news? For a sort of 'headline' show I'd prefer to have the actual news stories.
Interesting that tonight they didn't do it. did someone forget or did someone make a decision to leave it off?
Are you sure it wasn't listed as 'NEWS ALERT'? That's how they've promoted it as part of the ticker in the past. That also turns the ticker yellow.
News alert is something totally gimmicky that should be consigned to history
It was something Sky picked up from Fox back in 2001, when Sky developed a bizarre obsession with Fox and elements of their presentation. And still 16 years later I suspect most viewers don’t quite ‘get’ the concept of it. It essentially means ‘coming up’, right?
So why not just say ‘coming up’
The other odd habit Sky copied back then was to flip the name and job title on the lower thirds. So it would read
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, COMPANY
BOB SMITH
instead of
BOB SMITH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, COMPANY
which is how all normal people would write it. I suspect even Fox doesn’t do that any more
I actually really like the current look... just wish the lower thirds and ticker weren’t so teeny tiny and hard to read.
News alert is something totally gimmicky that should be consigned to history
It was something Sky picked up from Fox back in 2001, when Sky developed a bizarre obsession with Fox and elements of their presentation. And still 16 years later I suspect most viewers don’t quite ‘get’ the concept of it. It essentially means ‘coming up’, right?
So why not just say ‘coming up’
The other odd habit Sky copied back then was to flip the name and job title on the lower thirds. So it would read
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, COMPANY
BOB SMITH
instead of
BOB SMITH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, COMPANY
which is how all normal people would write it. I suspect even Fox doesn’t do that any more
Fox have it all on one line now with the name first.
Just to confirm - does anybody know if the view of the Sky Central atrium is coming back?
The new set up is nice (the branding on the newswall, etc) but the background is a bit boring. I'm excited to see the return of the lobby!
I believe it is. I think they were working on the sky cinema bit ir something
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richard h
Oops they just played out the wrong take of Jon Craig's update from Westminster in the midnight hour. luckily no swearing this time but he said Oh God.... God God God. They then cut back to Kimberly who said We'll go back to Jon once we have sorted the issues there.
Just to confirm - does anybody know if the view of the Sky Central atrium is coming back?
The new set up is nice (the branding on the newswall, etc) but the background is a bit boring. I'm excited to see the return of the lobby!
I believe it is. I think they were working on the sky cinema bit ir something
I don't believe any significant work is going on in the Atrium. Stephen Dixon mentioned on a Insta Live that the "powers that be" prefer the screen view now, so I'm not expecting the atrium view to come back anytime soon.
Just to confirm - does anybody know if the view of the Sky Central atrium is coming back?
The new set up is nice (the branding on the newswall, etc) but the background is a bit boring. I'm excited to see the return of the lobby!
I believe it is. I think they were working on the sky cinema bit ir something
I don't believe any significant work is going on in the Atrium. Stephen Dixon mentioned on a Insta Live that the "powers that be" prefer the screen view now, so I'm not expecting the atrium view to come back anytime soon.
That's so, so boring. What's the point of the glass box, in that respect? Terrible decision.
I believe it is. I think they were working on the sky cinema bit ir something
I don't believe any significant work is going on in the Atrium. Stephen Dixon mentioned on a Insta Live that the "powers that be" prefer the screen view now, so I'm not expecting the atrium view to come back anytime soon.
That's so, so boring. What's the point of the glass box, in that respect? Terrible decision.
Feels just a temporary setup now until the new studio launch.