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A former member
I say the SkyCube studio would looks less like a TescoExtra if they had but the video ticker on the balconies across from the cube rather than on it. It would give the backdrop some visual interest. Instead of looking like the inside of a multistory supermarket.

Oh, have you already seen how it is going to look on-screen?
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SK
Skygeek
I say the SkyCube studio would looks less like a TescoExtra if they had but the video ticker on the balconies across from the cube rather than on it. It would give the backdrop some visual interest. Instead of looking like the inside of a multistory supermarket.

Oh, have you already seen how it is going to look on-screen?

He can't have. Rehearsals don't start until tomorrow.
RK
Rkolsen
[quote="skyviewer" pid="1026802"]

Can´t remember any channel which stayed with the same onscreen graphics after moving to a new studio.

Sky's graphics are perfectly fine and new and don't need to be changed. When MSNBC moved to 30 Rock in 2007 they continued to use the same graphics package as before.
JO
Joe
I say the SkyCube studio would looks less like a TescoExtra if they had but the video ticker on the balconies across from the cube rather than on it. It would give the backdrop some visual interest. Instead of looking like the inside of a multistory supermarket.

You've made your point about the Tesco Extra. Could you now stop making it?
RO
rob Founding member
Joe posted:
I say the SkyCube studio would looks less like a TescoExtra if they had but the video ticker on the balconies across from the cube rather than on it. It would give the backdrop some visual interest. Instead of looking like the inside of a multistory supermarket.

You've made your point about the Tesco Extra. Could you now stop making it?


Seconded. Change the record...
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PI
picard
Let's see it in action first.
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A former member
I say the SkyCube studio would looks less like a TescoExtra if they had but the video ticker on the balconies across from the cube rather than on it. It would give the backdrop some visual interest. Instead of looking like the inside of a multistory supermarket.

Oh, have you already seen how it is going to look on-screen?

He can't have. Rehearsals don't start until tomorrow.

I know, I was being sarcastic Wink
SK
skyviewer
Some sort of new transitions and sting just now during the intro of All Out Politics.
MA
mark Founding member
BARB top 10 for the week Sep 5-11.

Quote:
1 PRESS PREVIEW (TUE 2231)
184 n/a
2 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0800)
163 n/a
3 LIVE DESK WITH COLIN BRAZIER (MON 0900)
160 n/a
4 PRESS PREVIEW (MON 2334)
150 n/a
5 PRESS PREVIEW (MON 2233)
143 n/a
6 SKY NEWS AT TEN (TUE 2200)
142 n/a
7 PRESS PREVIEW (WED 2331)
140 n/a
8 SUNRISE WITH MARK LONGHURST (SAT 0732)
136 n/a
9 SUNRISE WITH EAMONN HOLMES (SUN 0832)
135 n/a
10 LIVE DESK WITH COLIN BRAZIER (MON 0936)
133 n/a


As you'll see the appointment to view Press Preview topped that week followed by a weekend edition of Sunrise.


Very interesting - and confirms what I'd suspected about there not being a big daytime audience. Only two programmes in that top 10 are during office hours.

I guess that's a problem facing news channels the world over: the need to have the resources to cover the news day effectively, despite the potential audience being smaller than when people are home from work.
SI
sigma421
Isn't this possibly just an issue with how BARB works though? A lot of weekday daytime viewership will be on TVs in offices, receptions, cafés etc. which, AFAIK, BARB doesn't pick up.
II
IrelandIsle
Some sort of new transitions and sting just now during the intro of All Out Politics.


Nothing amazing, felt that the strange water ripple like animation transitions were over the top and gimmicky and an unwelcome addition and overuse of graphics obscuring the full screen

No need to use the additional sting music after the headlines finished either, especially when it was an old one which doesn't even fit with the rest of the TOTH anymore.

Should have gone for something new and less gimmicky or nothing special at all. Not sure on the graphics for the data either, the Cartoon picture of Jeremy Corbyn on what is supposed to be a serious news channel and then the date at the end? Seriously?
Last edited by IrelandIsle on 26 September 2016 12:57pm
RA
Ratflump
I agree about the ripples. Didn't look good at all. Also who is still watching in 4:3? Not using so much of the available space looks odd on a 16:9 screen.

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