Revamps

Is the recently announced forthcoming revamps to Sky News service just a pre-emtive (sp.) strike to get BBC News to formally announce their plans so that they both can play each other off?

Doubt it.

BBC News 24 will be having a gradual change over the next 10 months. Sky News have usually done things more or less overnight, with the exception of the 2001 mess.

A Major Setup, would know when the new graphics for the BBC One news are arriving?

January? They probably want to do it at around the same time as ITV News. Expect the Nations to change along with national BBC News.

Source?

Didn't you see the question mark and the "probably"? It was a guess!

Arguing with you is like arguing with a bag of sugar. So I'm not even going to offer a sensible response (which involves the next sentence of your quoted post).