Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

It's nothing exactly mind blowing but I think some people *cough* the opposite of WestScotland *cough* are going a bit overboard.
This is the exact issue, we have one image and from that I say it's average and seems like a combo of N6 and the ITV regional sets but I will wait to see it on air before I decide whether I like it or not. We seem to be presuming this is the whole studio too, of course.

It doesn't have to be mind blowing and that's not where I'm coming from. I just want to see something on screen that is at least practical, without necessarily being boring, and visually appealing without being garish.

This studio looks basic, and boring, and not that visually appealing either, based on the picture we've seen. Now it might all change when we see it on screen, but at the moment, I'm not impressed.

I watch all channels as well but I prefer Sky News because I like the press previews and Kay's segments and since my hours can involve weekend it's always nice on my days off to watch such more relaxing segments and the Press Previews as well in a more relaxed atmosphere.

Some people clearly like the lighter aspects and the soft aspects that are often on Sky News or else Sky wouldn't have spent the last 10 years having such segments on their shows - clearly if we take what you say as gospel they had no idea what they were doing for 10-15 years and are only now coming to their senses.

I think by and large Sky has been an exceptional news channel over the last 10 years even if you seem to think that they have been poorly run in poorly designed studios that have segments that don't belong on news channels as you now seem to be saying despite never having made these points before.

You may want to banish the sofa and relaxed press preview and lighter aspects and presenters with personality like Kay Burley who is excellent to the history books in favour of someone sitting in front of a desk 24/7 with no personality in a monotone robotic voice reading from a script but I don't - if you like that go and watch BBC News - personally I think it's good we have a choice.

I’m almost certain that some people deliberately hype up things like this so they can be disappointed when it is inevitably not as they wanted.

From the single picture we’ve seen so far, it doesn’t look too bad. If the main purpose of the studio is for overnights, that explains why it’s not massive. We’d all love to see a huge studio with nice, sweeping camera shots but given how much money Sky News loses it’s not a surprise that it’s a small, inoffensive studio. I’m sure they could use one of the many seating areas in Sky Central as a soft area for the Press Preview.

The old studio, in my opinion, has looked stale and a bit dingey for a while. Sky Central is bright, fresh and modern. It’s just a shame that they decided to have every camera shot facing the screen or the corridor, hopefully that’s a change that will be reversed when the glass box is back in action.

Isn't it all CSO - wasn't a pic posted weeks ago of them rehearsing in front of a green screen. If so they could have been more ambitious and given the set some depth. Do think the glass box would be far more popular if it overlooked a newsroom rather than a fairly bland atrium.

Well they didn't use it for the whole year they were in the glass box so I doubt they are going to start now. If they could find a spot to use for such things as well as softer interviews it would be a fantastic improvement.



Certainly it could do with some changes but because of the sheer size of it, it was never going to be hard to redevelop but since the building is being vacated there was obviously never going to be a chance of that sadly - I just feel a more modern version of that, even a little bit smaller and on one level, would have been a better than simply two boxy studios.

I found the shot overlooking the stairway and people going past in the glass box absolutely awful - I agree that having views in front of the screen all the time is not great, nor the corridor, but the other things they have tried from the glass box is even worse. That's where the fact it's a giant box in the middle of a massive office building lets it down.

That's my major gripe totally with the new boxy studios - they lack the spacious feel of the old studio and Millbank and also lack depth. Instead you have the choice of a screen or people walking down the steps underneath.

What are you on about? You're the one saying they've got their studios wrong because they won't be able to produce the whole election coverage from the studio floors. The fact they had a separate studio in 2015 clearly shows that wasn't something they had to take advantage of with the old studio.




What are you on about? I'm not criticising the way they have handled the last few elections.



What are you on about? I don't have to hate the old studio to find flaws in your very blinkered views of the new facilities. At the end of the day, a studio is a room with some equipment. Sky have plenty of them around. Sky News has access to more facilities than their two dedicated studios. Remind me again where Sky News fitted their leaders debates / referendum debates into the old studio?



What are you on about? I have literally no idea...



Does BBC News suffer from having small, fixed purpose studios? Like Sky, they have access to other facilities when they need bigger / less specialised spaces.



It quite clearly isn't in anything other than your opinion.



Which is why the BBC / ITV / C4 / C5 and so on never discuss these types of stories?

Besides, just having a sofa doesn't get away from the fact that you're in a room with lots of people rushing around, cameras flying around, people waving their arms around to get you to hurry up and so on. They're not clinical spaces (even if that's what it appears down the lens) there's plenty going on that you don't see, and the old studio isn't a lovely warm lounge with a smell of freshly baked cookies and no distractions.

Yes, we get that you don't like the direction that Sky News is going, but it's quite clear that they are happy with the heading they're on. Your constant wingeing and jumping on anyone who dares disagree with you is getting very tedious and won't change a thing .

I've warned you before.... stop telling me what you think my opinion is. I've said and think nothing of the sort

This is all getting ahead of its self. I'm sure SKY have been around long enough to know what they are doing. The best thing that could happen is that news production is streamlined and becomes as cost-effective as possible before the Disney takeover. Whatever the ownership status of the news division - it needs to be resolved quickly for all the staff.

Sky News's future is uncertain, and I think recent actions and decisions by Sky are more about making the operation and company as attractive to Disney for the purchase, rather than long term strategic planning and an intention to bolster and deepen Sky News

Well maybe it is that they have come round to that way of thinking. The realisation that being the biggest, the flashiest and the noisiest hasn't served them particularly well. That the aesthetics do nothing to increase viewing figures and that for all the bells and whistles that viewing is flat and has been for some time.

You go to all that trouble and your average viewer watches for no more than a few minutes so give them what they want - the news - in the most streamlined, cost effective way. And that's probably your Sky News of the future.