Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

All I can say is I hope that is a mock. its tiny, how would they do the papers round that tiny desk? There is no depth to it. I can imagine a few locked off camera shots and that's it. its also like the old BBC News with the screens.

If it is a mock then well done a lot of work has gone into it and you've even got the same chairs they use

We'll have to wait and see what it looks like on screen.

I've often thought that a Franceinfo presentation style set up would really suit Sky News. Still think its streaks ahead of anything we have in the UK at the moment presentation wise.

Keep a sharp eye on what's happening across the continent as I can see other broadcasters/News channels going down this route to attract a younger audience, which to be sustainable in the next 10 years, they're going to have to do.

I don't know why but in my head I was expecting a bit of a mini HLN set. Something with a bit of versatility with the ability to accommodate different segments and shows.

Well I'm not so sold on the colours and the blandness of that FranceInfo set-up but at least it doesn't look like a small box and it's spacious.

I'm still struggling to see how any of this is an improvement from simply giving the Sky News Center some changes which you can do anything with really due to it's size.

Well they already have that but the bulldozers are coming in any day now sadly - all of the designs you posted could have easily been possible in the old Sky News center with some interior work.

All what you have posted along with what other posters have posted have something which is seemingly lost on Sky these days - the idea of space and being somewhat open-plan.

That's the point though. The colours and set are pretty plain, but the 'personality' of the channel comes through via its presentation on screen and how it utilises space and tells its stories in reports.

Don't get me wrong, sitting down presentation has its place on a main bulletin, but a news channel should vary how it tells stories and presents itself. News channels have to start attracting a younger audience and they're finally beginning to see that. BBC News Channel in the N6 era and Sky News from around 2013-2016 being desk bound were some of the worst years for presentation in the UK.

I wonder if Sky News have been caught out a bit. Obviously when the plans to build the studios were put in place (probably a few years ago now) presentation was pretty bland and studios were quite small but times have moved on quickly and some broadcasters are now moving to open-plan spaces. However I think its more likely a cost cutting exercise.

The other problem Sky News have (and would be a worry for me if I were a set designer) is the flexibility of these studios for future re-fits and refurbs? There's very little you can do to change or adapt them because of their shapes and sizes (and in the case of the glass box, location).

I completely agree - I didn't like the desk bound era of Sky either for the same reasons that you outline and I also hated when they started to do everything at the main desk and stopped using the shoebox etc.

One of the best things since the glass box went into hibernation was in the first few weeks we saw Kay doing soft bits from the shoe box, the return of sofas for the paper segments, having bands and large groups of people coming in etc which really was good.

My biggest issue with Sky right now is the move to these enclosed small boxes and the limitations this is going to bring which will make presentation rather rigid and it's not going to be easy to change that in the future because of the limitations of space.



Well it's certainly downsizing isn't it - the glass box and the new place together must still be not even half the size of the current somewhat open plan news studio that we see in use tonight which would lead me to believe it is cost cutting for sure.

Lot of extrapolation going on here from a single photo.

100% - That would be my concern too.

Sky are boxing themselves in so to speak with these small boxes - with a big space like the current studio you can adapt and change as you go years into the future and give it massive overhauls and changes easily. If they want to have a studio like FranceInfo they're going to have to build another new one I'd say because of the lack of space in the boxes and that's going to be expensive.

How on earth will Sky handle an election in these two studios - it will have to be vastly different to every other one they've done.

Yes, but a lot of what's been discussed is pertinent to the glass box as well.

I’m sure I remember some of the earlier info being that the new studio would have a few different presentation areas plus some sort of newsroom backdrop. I’d hazard a guess that there’s more to the studio than the one picture suggests - otherwise there’d be no point in it as it would be no different to the glass box.

I do like the deeper blues and reds however.

Also - FranceInfo - part of me wonders if that was a big inspiration to Sky News?

This pic was posted on Instagram a couple months ago showing rehearsals in the new studio, same backdrop as the other pic

https://instagram.com/p/BbhxZpylctz/