Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

They say that Sunrise will launch from the box on Tuesday, not Monday

Get a VPN. As far as I know legal to do.

The question is not how to override the blocking, it is just interesting why some countries are geoblocked from the Youtube stream.

That was Jeremy Thompson last routine bulletin, I will give it him he loves purple tie. As said before he still around with kay for the US election.

Paul Harrison has posted JT's final sign off from the studio on his Twitter if anyone wants to see it https://twitter.com/SkyNewsEditor

3 more weeks of him in America to go

TV newsroom has got a direct video.
http://tvnewsroom.site/sky-news/jeremy-thompson-presents-final-sky-news-five-programme-148651/

What on earth is going on?

Gamal 2:00 - 5:00 (who to be fair is very good)
Tom McLeod 5:00 - 6:30
Someone else who looked like a rabbit in Headlights 6:30 - 7:00
Sophy Ridge from 7

The person who looked like a rabbit caught in headlights "This is sky news, you are watching us this evening in Osteerly from erm London" looked completely out of her depth and like she never presented breaking news before.

I would love to say that it's great at how Sky are giving young talent a chance but they are really feeling the loss of the number of senior people who have left the coverage is very very average. Too many experienced people have gone and there are so many inexperienced people in a line-up one after another that it's going to pose a problem every time some breaking news come in.

That's before you consider the amount of technical errors in programs since we've been messing around with new studios and moving things around studios and disjointed conversations between reporters and presenters who are in different studios to each other.

I don't like criticising Sky News but the channel has fallen so far in the last year that it's incredible.

Its the Friday before a big revamp - they won't be using their flagship names.

It was Sam Naz for those 30 minutes, who is usually relief overnight presenter, and indeed she was very uncomfortable and it was very weird she appeared to be there for these 30 minutes.

Just looked back, Sam did 30 mins of breaking news, so no wonder she was inexperienced. Sophy Ridge who is normally on a Friday took over at 7.

The fact that we're now making the point that Sophy Ridge, a poor presenter herself who manages to come across as a very poor and cold interviewer in studio but excellent as a political hack, is better than what came before her shows how far things have sank.

The simple fact was that the weekends have too many inexperienced people following each other. If a major world event happened they'd be really struggling. Tom MacLeod, does a poor job, lets call for Samir, who is even worse, but don't worry, Sophy Ridge is coming up next, who is an improvement, but a small one.

They have let too many people go and this is when nobody is on maternity leave, and there is only one presenter presenting on location. The presenter cupboard is going to be stretched much more than this and they're already struggling.

To say Sam was obviously thrown in the deep end and this was most likely her first time being on-air when there's a big breaking story developing, she did quite well. Yes, she was a bit repetitive, but you can't do much else without new details. She also welcomed viewers to Osterley because the previous programme had been from Westminster.

Whilst its unfair to 'slate' presenters, I think many would concede that the likes of Sam, Tom and Sophy don't have the same experience of Sky stalwarts like Kay, and others like Anna Botting and Anna Jones. Whilst its great that Sky News is giving younger journalists their big break, it seems that its not happening for any other reason but cost-cutting. Sophy in particularly is a great reporter but she hasn't yet settled into the presenter role for me, as her delivery seems a little forced.

Tonight's breaking news shows that with this new roster of presenters, Sky are exposing themselves, IMO.