Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

In that era, they were only really doing hourly bulletins for 30 minutes every hour, with the exception of Sunrise and Live At Five. Very different to what they do now.

Is Niall presenting from the shoebox?

No, main desk.

Bit of white balance please Sky. Very blue looking OB.

The picture quality of the Week In Review repeat is awful. The ticker and logo are both perfect, but the studio and inserts are soft and blurred.

New Sky News Gallery seems to be taking shape

Sneak peek of brand new @SkyNews gallery. My new home when we move to shiny new building. JEALOUS @chrisckmedia???! #lifeatsky pic.twitter.com/jzf4pxTXaR

— Emily Deeker (@EmilyDeekerSky) February 10, 2017

It might be the picture angle, but it looks a lot smaller than the Osterley gallery.

When you automate you reduce the number of people required significantly...

Also - many operations are now chosing to have more production staff in the newsroom on talkback, rather than in the gallery.

TV2 in Denmark have a gallery with just two people in it (and can drop down to one if need be). The playout system is entirely Mosart, with a couple of large portrait touch screens for control. There is no control surface for the vision mixer, though there is a sound desk (but sound is largely automated), and an EVS LSM controller for fast-turnaround or delay purposes.

All of the production journalists who might be in a gallery in the UK are based in the newsroom (which also has a newsroom studio) and communicate with presenters and director(s) over talkback, or walk in to the studio during reports to brief talent.

Is that the new Southwark studio

Also - if it is a gallery for a 'satellite' studio - like Millbank or their Business studio - it won't need as much space as it will house fewer tech and production staff.

Do employees get paid to push out this #lifeatsky hashtag?

ABC in America do it with #insideABC, interesting to have all behind the scenes stuff grouped under one hashtag though.