Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

I've not been on here for a few days so I was watching Sky News last night and I thought just when you think they can't make the presentation any more bland they go and do it but maybe it was a temporary thing. - doesn't look like it though so any personality Sky News had has gone

Live wipes
Breaking news wipes
Closing and opening sky news logo
Title card for Sunrise
Title card transitions for other branded shows
Some branded shows on the straps - Tonight, Ian King Live etc
All gone

overnight its 1 camera shot showing that awful animated blob background that resets every 30 seconds or so. it doesn't feel right having that background on at 3am its way too bright and no cut to the outside camera when going into breaks either

I really hope it is just temporarily.

Out of all of them the lack of transitions from title cards is the one I don't like. The others don't bother me so much.. I think whilst the sunrise opening before this week was better the new opening without a title card and going to a sunrise background is far better than sky news tonight etc that still has a title card but no animation.

However what they are doing is leaving less margin for error with production or source switching because those animations buy you a second or two if something is not quite ready with the delay hidden from the public because the animation covers it and the last week we've seen a few issues with this.

I'm a little worried about the changes at Westminister and the old studio though, it's very early days with them and they appear to be work in progress but the whites they started using instead of the traditional blues don't look right and look mish-mash but as it's very much work in progress it's unfair to give a final judgement just yet.

Glad to see the vanity camera shot gone though, if only they could do that all day.

It certainly feels a bit temporary. I wonder if the piece of kit that deals with the things mentioned has been redeployed for use elsewhere to do with the election, or maybe if it's something to do with the transition from old studio to new?

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if Sky has it's own in house I.T team, or is it outsourced?

Vote 2017 Branded straps replaced by normal red ones on Midnight news.

Including one which says "gesup VOTE 2017" at 00:01.

Guessing it's a fault.

Something up with the lighting in the glass box? Sam Naz looks pale.

Ive not see this Edinburgh studio before, is it new?

Green screen DTL in newsroom up there...nothing special

It's a large LED tv rather than green screen, easier to manage.

No The Campaign tonight, Niall Paterson presented an hour of breaking news from Millbank.

Watching Sky News Ireland, they appear to have a different sponsor for the weather at x27 as I'm sure I saw 0.5 seconds of the Qatar Airways sponsorship, before Multitrip.com crashed in with an Irish narrator. Qatar was played out at x57.