Sky News Thread - Relaunch on Monday

This report says Sky News will be moving to 401.

Anna Jones is on this afternoon.

Seems to be a similar thing to what they did with Ginny Buckley the other week -- taking over from one presenter half way through a shift so they're only on for a couple of hours.

Any chance of a capture of Anna on Sky?

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Apologies for the poor quality.

Anna is doing really well on her first day with Sky. I wasn't sure if she had the newsreading style to suit Sky News but a breaking news story just flew in a few minutes ago and she had handled it with the skynewsism perfection.

She said "Now on Sky News" without a second thought, and even handled saying SkyStrator and using it for a complicated explaination without a single stumble...

How do you know she didn't have a second though? Are you a mind reader in your spare time?!

But yes, from the few minutes I saw, she seemed very good.

I still have no idea how big this new studio actually is. Can anyone who's actually seen the studio let on whether it is as huge as was originally said, or whether now it's all be dressed out it's a relatively modest sized place?

Wow! Anyone would think she's a professional newsreader!

If the new studio is a "fishbowl", surely the size on camera will look smaller than it really is because the cameras will be somewhere in the middle of the 'bowl'? (rather than at one end of the studio as in the current Sky news studio)

I've seen the new set and, as I've said before, it is pretty big. I'm not sure whether or not it'll look so big on TV. However, the current Sky News set looks miles bigger on TV than in real life so if it follows the same rules - the new set will look EVEN BIGGER. I wouldn't get too excited about the new videowall. It is very big but when I looked at it there was a LIVE shot of big ben which looked scewed and poor quality. As far as the weather is concerned - I don't reckon it'll be impressive. I haven't seen the new graphics but it looks as if there's an area within the centre of the set (next to the newsdesk) where the weather will be presented against a chroma key background. I think the best thing will be the fact that the desk rotates so there'll be a bit of variety, which'll put ITV News Channel to shame as their set gets very boring after a while. Another interesting observation - the newsdesk is semi-circular and arched in the direction of the camera (a bit like the old Central News West when it first moved to gas street) and it has a plasma screen in the middle of it. Very different to the current desk and a bit smaller. Hope I'm starting to build you a picture here!

Thanks for that - much appreciated.

The chromakey thing sounds a bit bizarre.

From what we've heard then, how right am I with this breakdown:

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/snnsaicat.jpg

1 - is this some sort of projection thing, and is the chromakey bit built into this? or is this the newswall?

2 - Assuming that this is the newswall, as there is a platform next to it

3 - Was mentioned that there was a soft area in the top left of the set, upstairs?

4 - Glass window area through to gallery?

5 - Does the set actually stop here, or does it continue on, and if so to what?

just reading over on the Breakfast thread that Gillian Joseph is joining Sky to present the 9-midnight slot.

doesn't that leave an hour between the end of Julie Etchingham's show and that slot (for a yet unannounced prog.)?

And I thought they wanted to increase audiences during prime time.