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Sky News Thread - Relaunch on Monday

Set and graphics revealed (January 2005)

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MD
mdtauk
Its nice to see the presenters are almost as excited as us 'obsessive' viewers. I am surprised the October magazine hasnt made a big deal about the new look, with images of the set etc, perhaps in November's issue?
GI
gillw72
Two weeks to go!!

The Newsforums are reporting that the promos have been recorded.

Newsforums
LL
London Lite Founding member
For those of you that are interested, Forecaster Lucy's surname is Verasamy
NU
NewsUpdate
I would assume the promos would be to promote the set and new line ups, we may get a complete picture of who fits where then
HB
HBox
I'm curious to know what they will do with the weekend schedule.

And what will become of their Millbank studio.
MD
MarkDC
Quote:
One opening sequence video that someone posted on TVForum has been passed round the newsroom like wildfire


Does anybody know where exactly that file is in the mocks page?
WI
william Founding member
Kennedy6969 posted:
"Sky News will probably relaunch on Monday 10th October 6.00 am."

Seems pretty certain now. Sky also intend to change 70% of channel numbers as part of their updated EPG on this day and it would make sense to go for a big bang..


Well I've scrolled back more than ten pages... Any advance on the above or are they being deliberately vague? And did we ever establish for sure that they're not going to bother with widescreen?

It all sounds very nice though I hope the set has a few colours other than blue and red. And I look forward to seeing the new graphics package and the top of the hour sequence.
TW
Time Warp
MarkDC posted:
Quote:
One opening sequence video that someone posted on TVForum has been passed round the newsroom like wildfire


Does anybody know where exactly that file is in the mocks page?


http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17527&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
W1
w12
gillw posted:
Two weeks to go!!

Newsforums

Not if the rumour I heard is true. Most stuff I put on here is extremely well sourced. As for this one, it's from a named source that is usually reliable, and it's that......

..... the relaunch won't be until November now. Someone at Sky HQ left a back door to the new complex open one evening, and some scoundrel came in and nicked a load of the kit. And it's set them back weeks.

True? Dunno. Surely an outfit as wonderful as Sky wouldn't let something like that happen to them......
CA
cat
I find that hard to believe... I mean, we had heard there was security around the building 24/7, and surely someone wandering in and taking a load of stuff into a van wouldn't go unnoticed.

What did they do, drive up with a truck and take the desk, the computers, and chairs?

I wouldn't put it past them, given their record on relaunches, but still...
GR
gregmc
Its complete ****. I am 99.9% sure that sky will relaunch in October. Unless some freek accident happens or something, It will relaunch sometime in "mid-october"
W1
w12
gregmc posted:
Its complete ****e. I am 99.9% sure that sky will relaunch in October. Unless some freek accident happens or something, It will relaunch sometime in "mid-october"


Let's see..... I did attribute the rumour to someone else so if it's untrue, I can wash my hands of it and pretend I never said it. Hmmmmm, maybe my journalistic skills have been influenced by the Sky News ethic.....!

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