A night of endless speculation . . .

We get one of these every so often on the news.

Anchor: When will the trial of Milosovic take place?

Reporter: goes on for a few minutes about the background to the story

Anchor: Do you actually know what happens now in terms of the trial date.

Reporter: Actually not @ this stage!

It could be straight out of the 'Going Live' column in Private Eye!

Is Martin Stanford a jinx?
Every time he anchors on Sky something seriously big happens.
Nice to hear presenters ablib though. He always says 'If you are just tuning our way let me tell you'.
Martin and Kay were certainly doing the vast majority of the 6-7 shift unscripted, they started chatting about the story at one point which is unusual but perhaps the way of things to come?

I must renew my subscription to PE.

I was watching the 5pm (I think!) programme and over the headlines Kay laughed during speaking about Jack Lemmon who died which I thought (regardless of whether the clip they showed was funny or not) was insensitive. She tried her best to end the headline 'has died' on a low note but didn't quite get far enough down to make it sound sad!

Cheers, Asa

The worst example of this I have seen was when Princess Margaret had a stroke and Kay was laughing because of the previous headline.
It is just bad luck I suppose, you can't stop yourself from laughing really!

youve got to think how would you cope. if you see sometjhing really funny but have to sound serious it just doesnt work.

Worst is with Bob Friend & Anna Botting. They will often just cut to an ad break to be safe!

A good newsreader wil always be able to immediatley compose themselves and carry on - good example: Moira Stewart - she can be laughing at something the Breakfast presenters have said and will then just return to normal and carry on. Also, Michael Buerk, he can be laughing at Jennie Bond (ROYAL CORRESPONDANT ) and how over dressed she is, but will then go straight to some awful story with great composure.

Because these presenters on Sky (i don't have cable so i don't know) can't control themselves they will never be real newsreaders on proper news stations.

James

Oooo, miaow!

Also, don't forget BBC World. They have a great presenter who features here occassionally - Adrian Finighan. He's a top bloke both on & off screen.

I think that the presenters on World are highly under-rated. They are the best, bar one, who incidentally came from Sky

That's my opinion anyhow

And of course you wouldn't be biased! Of course we can't see just how good the BBC World presenters are in this country!!

Course you can! But in streaming form...
BBC World Streaming

Yes, of course you can... let me bow my head in shame and eat humble pie!!

Actually, if you think about it for a second why would Sky presenters want to work on BBC or ITV news?
Sky presenters have normally a 3 hour presenting shift, with 10-4 as an exception, reach a potential 80 million viewers and cover live breaking news.
In comparison BBC and ITV news readers read the news for 30 mins a day, reach a potential 59 million viewers and only mention news events in brief.
I know which one I would rather do!