Someone is having a laugh... but it ain't April Fool's Day.
Edit: Just having looked around the internet, there about about 5 mentions of this in total... from some local TV channel and a few blogs. Can't help but think that the images look massively Photoshopped, though...
Any more news on the new studio, rehearsals are due to start in March arnt they? Can any insiders shed more light now, on maybe the look of the studio , or any change in format...
Someone is having a laugh... but it ain't April Fool's Day.
Edit: Just having looked around the internet, there about about 5 mentions of this in total... from some local TV channel and a few blogs. Can't help but think that the images look massively Photoshopped, though...
Strange - Choong Chong Today doesn't have a website and all searches relating to the 'newspaper' only go back to the mutant fish with human faces 'story'
Sky moves away from rolling news
Susan Thompson
24 February 2005 07:50
Sky News is planning a revamp that will move the channel away from rolling news and introduce more 'appointment to view' programmes into its schedule.
The move will be a departure for the channel that has built its reputation by being first with breaking news and providing a constant stream of rolling news information.
But Sky News chief Nick Pollard, speaking this week at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch, said the perception of the channel as simply being the best for "breaking news" could be "a double-edged sword" and it was now looking at ways of evolving its news service with more scheduled programme formats.
He said these would help form the "building blocks" of the schedule and be "built around specific presenters", although it was too early to discuss who would host the shows. He said new presenters could be recruited to front some of the new programmes.
Sky News already has fixed points in its schedule including Sunrise in the morning and Live at Five - but wants more scheduled programmes to pull in viewers and keep them for longer.
But he insisted Sky News would always put covering big breaking news first and break into fixed schedules whenever necessary.
The move is in response to increased competition from BBC News 24 and to a lesser degree the ITV News Channel, which has had success in developing scheduled shows around presenters such as Alastair Stewart and Angela Rippon. Pollard said the changes would be introduced later this year, probably around the time Sky News moves into new hi-tech studio facilities being developed at Sky's Osterley HQ.
The above sounds really good to me. Noticed this last night but don't see it mentioned anywhere, the Sky News Green Room is now online, lots of images on there too. Worth a nose around if you haven't already been there.
Sky moves away from rolling news
Susan Thompson
24 February 2005 07:50
Sky News is planning a revamp that will move the channel away from rolling news and introduce more 'appointment to view' programmes into its schedule.
The move will be a departure for the channel that has built its reputation by being first with breaking news and providing a constant stream of rolling news information.
But Sky News chief Nick Pollard, speaking this week at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch, said the perception of the channel as simply being the best for "breaking news" could be "a double-edged sword" and it was now looking at ways of evolving its news service with more scheduled programme formats.
He said these would help form the "building blocks" of the schedule and be "built around specific presenters", although it was too early to discuss who would host the shows. He said new presenters could be recruited to front some of the new programmes.
Sky News already has fixed points in its schedule including Sunrise in the morning and Live at Five - but wants more scheduled programmes to pull in viewers and keep them for longer.
But he insisted Sky News would always put covering big breaking news first and break into fixed schedules whenever necessary.
The move is in response to increased competition from BBC News 24 and to a lesser degree the ITV News Channel, which has had success in developing scheduled shows around presenters such as Alastair Stewart and Angela Rippon. Pollard said the changes would be introduced later this year, probably around the time Sky News moves into new hi-tech studio facilities being developed at Sky's Osterley HQ.
So back tracking to the 1998 format then?
I'm all in favour of seeing more "scheduled" shows - why they ditched the business unit as well if beyond me...although it's starting to get a bit better now.
Wouldn't have used Sunrise or Live at Five as the best examples of fixed scheduling. Sky News Today is the best example they've got. Oh and I hope they bring back Sky News at Ten. Proper.
TBH, hard to classify Sunrise and Live at Five as ''appointment to view''.
Trouble for Sky is, their most recent attempts at appointment to view - Littlejohn and 3D - have been p!ss poor. Total failure at attempting to copy the Fox format.
They'll probably nick someone from Radio Five Live, or something.
The World of Kay Burley, though. Hmmmm....
Can't help but wonder whether they will transplant some of their existing news anchors into 'presenter' roles on the new shows, like CNN (Aaron Brown, Paula Zahn, etc), or whether the news anchors will remain distinct from the more appointment to view bulletins, a la Fox (Hannity, O'Reilly, etc, who never have done straight news).
Either way, we knew it was coming. They've been talking about it for ages, so hardly a great surprise.
