Yes I did see that, thought it was a tad funny, I dont know why they couldnt of gone to Juile for that story.
Nice for them to get in some audio of the various transmissons going on even if they were unrecognisable.
Brilliant coverage of the armed seige of terror suspects in West London. Police are raiding flats in Notting Hill, and Sky have one of the suspects' next door neighbours on the phone giving an eyewitness description of the whole scene, telling the audience what the police are shouting at this bloke in his flat. Suppose that it is a bit lucky that Sky got such a good eyewitness, but it makes the coverage that Sky has very real to the viewers and gives a good impression of the tension.
Brilliant coverage of the armed seige of terror suspects in West London. Police are raiding flats in Notting Hill, and Sky have one of the suspects' next door neighbours on the phone giving an eyewitness description of the whole scene, telling the audience what the police are shouting at this bloke in his flat. Suppose that it is a bit lucky that Sky got such a good eyewitness, but it makes the coverage that Sky has very real to the viewers and gives a good impression of the tension.
Agreed, this is fanastic coverage from Sky. The eyewitness has now revealed the Police are reffering to the suspect as 'Mohammed' so clearly Sky are ahead of everyone else with this story.
I notice that on Johnnie's website (relaunch.skynewscentre.co.uk) he has a *possible* schedule based on info that he's hearing.
Interesting to note that the 9-12 and 2-5 hours appear to have three presenters in each slot. Certainly sounds very interesting, and perhaps goes some way to explaining why they've been so keen to get more presenters on board. Sounds almost Fox and Friends-esq, though surely it can't be that bad. An interesting departure from the norm, if it turns out to be true.
To what extent is this info reliable, Johnnie?
I can't help but think that they are going to regret having Julie Etchingham on for only one hour a night, though. I know they are trying to make primetime, well, 'special', but she is so good at rolling news that seems a shame to stick her in a pre-planned and packaged show.
Its pretty solid, heard it from a few people, whether it'll still be the same come launch day is another story.
I'm guessing that instead of all 3 presenters on at the same time, it'll be two presenters with the main news, and the 3rd presenter doing the top stories every 15 minutes with weather, active plug and maybe reading out emails.
My best guess is that it will be Martin Stanford and Steve Dixon - the two presenters they have who look very comfortable and relaxed dealing with complicated virtual scenarios and newswall graphics - doing all of the, well, complicated virtual scenarios and newswall graphics, explaining stories, feedback, summaries etc.
The other two will then do the interviews and links etc.
Seems as though Stanford and Dixon will be there to do most of the presentational work, and making things easier to understand with graphics and suchlike. Sounds pretty good.
The 3 presenters shows sound good, but the evenings are still a bit of, well nothing at the moment.
I thought that they may have poached one more recognisable network face to do an evening chat/analytical show, but perhaps that is still to come. Someone like Khrish Guru Murthy, I thought they might have tried to lure. But we'll wait and see.
Well Sky were apparently in talks with Sir Trev... not sure in which capacity they were after him though. Talk about a major addition to the team though if that were true!
Well Sky were apparently in talks with Sir Trev... not sure in which capacity they were after him though. Talk about a major addition to the team though if that were true!
To be honest, I don't Sir Trev would want to move from ITN/ITV. He's been there for years and he's already said he isn't going to continue newsreading for long. He would just ruin his role as the king of ITN by moving.
Well I wasn't implying he would be a newsreader for Sky, more of a documentary presenter or something, in fact not unlike what he does on Tonight. And as for him never leaving ITV/N... money can be a big influence!