Sky News Active changes

But anyway, Digital Spy yesterday

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayarticle.php?id=4385

One of the new four screens, 'live feed of the newsroom/gallery' - newsroom we'd already discussed , but not the gallery!!

This'll be fascinating to watch if true, but surely this absolute madness on Sky's part?!!!

Why the hell you would want to allow the public and every other broadcaster access to a 24 hour feed of what's going on in your gallery?

Apart from the competition, surely there are all sorts of legal complications, the danger for embargos on news stories to be broken by accident, footage that should not be shown for whatever reason may be visible by accident.

Wouldn't most Sky producers and technical staff be really angry about this?

Like I say, it'll be fascinating to watch, and given the choice between a 24 hour news channel and a feed like this I'd choose the latter anyday, but it really does seem totally insane on Sky's part - what have they got to gain by doing it?

William

On the Sky News Active Election Special, I noticed that sound from the gallery was cut during some parts of the night. Also, they switched between different cameras as well, which suggests that they did indeed switch sound feeds off and use a different camera in the gallery so they did not inadverntly broadcast anything they shouldnt for legal reasons etc.

Perhaps that is what they will do with the new service. Also, this Sky Centre feed is most probably because they have nothing else to put on it, and that the Sky Centre feed is a placeholder, so that people can see what it is like at Sky Centre, but that feed can be used for something more important to show on it.

For Goodness Sake why don't sky just learn and put a sports feed up on active!!!!

Cause they have SKYsports news which is sports news 24:7

So why do they have Sports during the weekend?

Anyway, as long as they have Fox News on it I dont care. Maybe they could repeat some programmes on one of the feeds e.g. Adam Boulton, CBS News etc. maybe even Fox and Friends???

This is one question that has bugged me for months on end, and will continue to bug for many more months to come! It's a bit pathetic really why they just don't do this! Costing money, I know, but let's face it, Sky are loaded to the max.

The feed of the gallery is already up and running on the newswall, you can see it on one of the screens.

I don't know why they don't have a sport screen, it'd be better than an entertainment one.

The videos really should follow the text...

News
Sport
Business
Weather

I've never understood why entertainment is on there.

Is there some rules that prevent a sport screen. To do with repeating sport coverage from other channels. Ive noticed that on the BBC News 24 sports screen they only show sport on the BBC (not much then) and nothing from Sky e.g. India V England they have a photograph and Pat Murphy or someone talking about it on the BBCI while on sports news at 35 mins past on N24 they show some highlights.

Could this be a possability or is it a stupid suggestion!

Ste

Actually that's a very good point.

I'm not too up on the full details of the scheme so perhaps someone could tell us more, but as I understand it quite some time ago there was a deal agreed by all broadcasters about sports pictures.

Sky News were included in this deal, however. Sky Sports News isn't, that's why it was never allowed to show pictures from ITV or BBC, only sport on Sky.

Sky News Sport and Sky Sports News merged a few months ago into a single division, Sky came out with the 'streamlining our operations to make a more efficient sports service for our viewers etc...' press release, it was more a case of cost cutting.

Whether Sky News Active comes under this agreement for sports coverage I'm not sure. But then again they do show sport during the weekend, so I can't understand why not...

But hey, don't give them any ideas! The first one to go if they changed their minds would be the gallery and newsroom - the only one of the new feeds I am particularly interested in seeing!!

Sorry!

(Edited by harshy at 8:39 pm on Dec. 16, 2001)