Sky Sports News HQ

Is the set real or virtual?

Apart from the ridiculous name it all looks good - but we all know history tells us that sooner or later they'll be stuck behind the desk full time.

Mainly real, there are set extension images on some of the walls, but the main core desk, newsroom, sofa are all real.

Just watching Sky Sports F1, I think we can safely assume that F1 has its own separate set of idents, whilst 1-5 and News share their own set of more generic idents. I think News has some specific idents too, as I saw an ident that featured some of the News presenters in the new studio.

I think they missed a trick by not having a Bruce Hammal voiceover.

"Live, from the Sky Sports News headquarters in Sky Studios in West London, this is Sky Sports News HQ HD, with Mike Wedderburn and Alex Hammond"

It'd shave a good minute off each hour that they need to fill (though at that length it might need to be Peter Simon).

A far more traditional Sky Sports News TOTH at 11pm for Through the Night.

In fact, watching the 11:00pm hour, it's being presented just like Sky Sports News always has been, double headed at the desk, with none of the walking about, social media desk, investigations etc that we've seen today.

Not at all happy with the new look. Wolves had been on a great run until last night, when they lost at home to lower league opposition. Can we go back to the old look?

It's a shame they didn't put a long desk in there. Would have loved Soccer Saturday to come from there.

The F1 channel is only using 1 ident and it appeared on Sky Sports News HQ last night too. So basically all idents will air on News HQ with each channel having its own idents.

Hm, only the second one actually works, the others just seem covered up too much.

You say that like it's an oversight, it's surely meant to signify that Sky Sports takes you inside the action, it's be design. It's not like anyone is not going to know what it's say so that's not a major concern.

Interesting - so are they actually pushing the idea of each channel being themed around a particular sport, or is there more than one ident for each channel?