Firstly, How long have they been recieving a clean live feed from Fox, last time I saw them using it, it was complete with DOG and astons.
Main Point,
Why do Sky News still simulcast when Fox is now broadcast on Sky? Fair enough using the pictures but why broadcast the conversations between the fox presenters- seems a bit pointless to me.
Presumably Sky can book circuits from Fox (who they are newsgathering partners with?) - if they require a clean feed. It may be that they feed this permanently on a leased line from the US, replacing it with feeds and lives from the US as they are required, but rather than putting a "Sky Washington" testcard on the feed they can leave Fox up?
The BBC historically did this with the ABC News One feed on one of their Washington leased lines.
I really have a problem with Sky News using Fox News reports. Fox is one of the worst channels I've ever seen.
With the announcement that Sky News is moving to a more Americanised bulletins system should we expect more of Fox and Friends :
Whenever I've seen Sky take pictures from Fox in the past, they've first taken Fox's output (presumably from the Sky Digital channel), then moments later they blur out the flag, then a bit later if they've decided to run with it they've got a clean feed of whatever it was they were looking at (presumably someone has to make a phone call or whatever to get this).
Main Point,
Why do Sky News still simulcast when Fox is now broadcast on Sky? Fair enough using the pictures but why broadcast the conversations between the fox presenters- seems a bit pointless to me.
Probably because whereas Sky News is on all digital platforms, FNC (to my knowledge) is only on DSat.
Whenever I've seen Sky take pictures from Fox in the past, they've first taken Fox's output (presumably from the Sky Digital channel), then moments later they blur out the flag, then a bit later if they've decided to run with it they've got a clean feed of whatever it was they were looking at (presumably someone has to make a phone call or whatever to get this).
Most news broadcasters and their affiliates in the US (with the key exception of CNN) are in something called the NNS - the National News Service. They pool most of their live coverage, and make it available to other broadcasters in (I think) New York and Washington - and I'd guess LA as well. Foreign clients of US broadcasters can then (depending on their contracts) pick up the same material. So if Sky see something they want on Fox, they'll stick Fox straight on air, then try and get the same pictures "clean" from their Washington bureau. The BBC and ITN can get the same clean pictures - they just can't stick a US broadcaster straight on air.
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