Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

House I have no problem accepting criticism I think it’s a part of democracy and helps make this forum flow propley but if you read my responses yes I may reinforce the same argument however I try to explain it so
You know what I mean and that you can respond and put your view s forward.

yes I am young and I have no problem admitting that and I am not your summer holiday type kid who appears for 6 weeks and then disappears I will still be here come September whether it be on the weekends or after school because I like to discuss things such as sky news so I ask you be patient and in time I am sure we can get on. The one problem I have with the critics are that it’s made personal I am not an idiot I am a human I have feelings. Yes criticize but do not make deliberate insults or jokes about me personally.

I’d love to explain myself the reason I said Charlotte would be better off at sky is that they are increasingly giving her bigger roles and training her up if you like she has done some live desk shifts , her normal shift is in prime time and when JT retires from Live at 5 somebody such as Colin brazier make take over giving her the opportunity to front the live desk full time and that would then turn in to covering shifts for Eamon/Dermot/Colin/Kay in a few years there will be a relaunch of a programme or someone leaves and a position will come elsewhere which one of skis people may move to and then charlotte will get her chance but if she goes to BBC Breakfast I don’t think it would be right for her because post 8:30 there is quite a few features/showbiz interviews which she is not used to and she suites serious news if she was to go to the beeb the NC or 6 would be better .

Philipa is the main presenter of five lunchtime news however often appears on sky active and covers overnight and Gamma Morris covers her five slot .

Colin Brazier is overrated. TOTH- big breaking story about about the birth of the Camerons baby girl, he struggled to fill time whilst they prepared a correspondent to come on and talk about it- big pauses and telling us lots about what wasn't known about the story, and then when Niall Paterson did emerge to feedback a statement from Downing Street, Mr. Brazier proceeded to repeat it just a couple of minutes later but treated it as if it was a new development.

I agree, I think people like Colin Brazier and Andrew Wilson are more suited to reporting in the field than presenting. Although if I remember rightly, wasn't Brazier removed from his role as a senior reporter because of some kind of brawl?

Yes, involved violent behaviour towards a Sky producer if I remember rightly.

I Don't paticuly rate the presenter that highly either but my point was he is probably the favourite to step in to the role of Live at 5 When Jeremy Thompson retiring.

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Sounds like Natasha Kaplinski. She came from regonal ITV and was still doing my company's weekly internal TV channel whilst at Sky and then went on to a big gig at the BBC.

Fair point, though Natasha spent quite a few years on Breakfast before moving to the News at Six, and a main presenter on Sky, rather than a headlines presenter.

As I attempted to explain to Danslink (perhaps not the best example to use - look what happened to him), there are very few instances in which you have been criticised directly. More often than not, the content of your posts have been criticised. All that we ask is that before you press 'submit', you take the time to read through your comment. Does it make sense to you? Are you saying what you really want to say? As you say in your most recent post:



Well, if that was your point, why didn't you make it clear in the first place? House stated earlier that he has no objection to anybody posting a comment as long as they abide by the rules of the forum and take the time to think about what they say and what they are about to contribute. House doesn't object to 'summer holiday kids' posting on here, nor do I, and nor do the vast majority of members (I hope). What we object to is the slapdash way the posts are made. In criticising your posts, and not you, we hope that you might make your posts better and more constructive.

Natasha was never a 'headlines' presenter at Sky. Also, BBC Breakfast is a big gig. Didn't Dermot go there after being a main presenter on ITV?

Dermot was at ITN before Breakfast

So glad you understood my post.

And Dermot left Breakfast to join Sky, a move he himself has admits was due to being bored on Breakfast and the poor likelihood of a position on the six or ten coming up was unlikely.

My point was Natasha was more senior at Sky than Charlotte is, so the (bizarre) idea someone had that Charlotte would be hired to present the BBC News at Six at this stage in her career was incredibly unlikely.

I think Charlotte isn't just the average headlines presenter, she isn't presenting random shifts going from Sunrise headlines one day to the 8pm-10pm newswheel the next, which Sarah Jane Mee, Chloe Potter and occasionally Sarah Hughes do. I would suggest within the next couple of years Charlotte will either be the permanent presenter of the Live Desk, Sunrise on weekends or maybe Saturday Live, and if she remained at Sky, we could be seeing her taking a similar career path as Anna Botting.