Hello, was just looking for a Sky Sport's News HQ thread/topic although couldn't find one so I though I'd take time to create a dedicated topic especially for Sky's 24 hour sports rolling news channel.
I hope this topic can be a place to discuss a whole variety of things from presenter schedules, tell of any favourite reporters, talk about the Sky Sports' newsroom, to working out how the channel possibly could improve in the near future.
First question, which I believe I may have asked before on a former forum, does anyone know Sky Sports News HQ average audience figures, how are they compared to Sky News' figures?
Additionally, does anyone know if these figures dramatically change on Deadline Days?
What would SSNHQ do during a major breaking news story, such as a senior Royal death or a terrorist attack on the UK? Would they continue their usual format of football skewed rolling news?
I'm usually up around 5am, so catch the last hour of the repeated Through The Night output, and I've never seen a break away to live output. In fact the through the night sports news updates on Sky News, has been at times more up to date than SSN.
The SSN ticker usually handles any breaking sports news. Although, that is mostly to announce the deaths of people in the sporting world.
Do they stick with some live coverage for things such as the Superbowl and for example during the World Cup when some games were kicking off at 11pm and 2am? They'll be key Olympic events overnight in the summer too, though Sky Sports News often doesn't notice the Olympics.
What would SSNHQ do during a major breaking news story, such as a senior Royal death or a terrorist attack on the UK? Would they continue their usual format of football skewed rolling news?
Most probably continue in its original form, unless Arsène Wenger clubs Prince Philip to death for making some stereotypical comment about the French...
A large chunk of SSNHQ appears to be simulcast - Soccer Saturday quite often also fills up Sky Sports 5 (a channel itself originally for European football that now appears to show lots of other stuff but that's another topic), as does the evening equivalents of Soccer Saturday.
