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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

(October 2016)

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picard
Can someone explain this bizarre thing people keep doing?



DO
dosxuk
Can someone explain this bizarre thing people keep doing?


Not sure, but I do know the next thing the do is wonder why there's a sound guy holding some scaff bar looking unusually unimpressed heading in their direction.
WO
Worzel
Can someone explain this bizarre thing people keep doing?


Not sure, but I do know the next thing the do is wonder why there's a sound guy holding some scaff bar looking unusually unimpressed heading in their direction.


I believe it was a fad that started with wrestling/wrestlers (WWE) and has now become popular mainstream.
DS
DarthSidious
The big screen at the Sky News Centre really shows up poorly when displaying a lot of white. But then that just shows how good the new screen is at Sky Central.

I am guessing it's an LED screen in the glass box? Also will be interesting to see if they have made any more tweaks to that studio by Monday.
CI
cityprod
Can someone explain this bizarre thing people keep doing?


Not sure, but I do know the next thing the do is wonder why there's a sound guy holding some scaff bar looking unusually unimpressed heading in their direction.


I believe it was a fad that started with wrestling/wrestlers (WWE) and has now become popular mainstream.


Actually, the 'fad' started back in 1983 with Eddie Murphy on his Delirious tour. 80's rappers then started doing it, and it remained there in semi-obscurity, until CM Punk's Pipebomb promo, I think, and it took off from there.
PI
picard
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MA
mainhill
Sky News boss: 'The only way to achieve longevity is to go through renewal'
John Ryley discusses the departure of senior presenters and reveals details of a new home for the channel’s City operation

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/06/sky-news-boss-john-ryley-the-only-way-to-achieve-longevity-is-to-go-through-renewal
NJ
news junkie
Can always count on Kay for a sneak peak at the election night studio.

https://www.facebook.com/kayburleysky/videos/vb.565692536925655/662263193935255/?type=3&theater

Studio is in 'R Lounge Times Square' and also has the same style desk from the EU referendum. Set goes live tomorrow with Sunrise.



Last edited by news junkie on 6 November 2016 3:28pm
tmorgan96 and picard gave kudos
PI
picard
So they will do sunrise from tomorrow morning 6am from there. Pretty cool. I guess it will be dark outside.
HC
Hatton Cross
I guess it will be dark outside.

6am UK will be 1am New York.
In fact 9am UK will be 4am New York - so no matter when they cross to New York during Sunrise, it will still be dark outside - although looking at that shot, and the view from the windows, there are so many white light LED's on the advertising hordings opposite, it will probably look like daytime.
HC
Hatton Cross
He can’t help adding one more dig at Auntie, where he began his career as a graduate trainee in the late 1980s, saying he felt the Today programme was a “little slow on the uptake” on the airport attack in Brussels this year.

“We were lucky, we had our correspondent Alex Rossi at the airport at the time which gave us a distinct advantage,” he concedes, before adding: “The BBC has fantastic journalists but they have to cut their costs accordingly.”


Prat. Did Uncle Rupert give you that line, John?

Sky News were first at Brussels Airport, because Alex Rossi was there catching a flight. It's as though John is having a go at the BBC for not having all their correspondents based at international airports around the globe, just incase some extremist loonybins, decide to launch another attack.

Trying to score a competive point over the BBC, over the speed they got the sound of emergency service sirens on air, as with the aftermath of a terrorist attack, is very shabby indeed.
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mark Founding member
Great location for the election studio. Times Square looks best at night anyway, so there shouldn't be any issues with Sunrise. It won't look that much different from how it will on election night - just fewer people and cars.

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