News every 15 minutes.

Yes, 'News, Sport and Weather' is Sky News' highest rated prgram getting around 180,000 viewers.

No decent presenters. No decent production effort. No views or analysis.

So, my question. Given it's obvious 'popularity', should this format be extended to larger parts of the day or even other channels. Despite these organizations websites and vod?

Is this even 'healthy'?, I mean should a newschannel today be offering more news that simply the top three or four. Should channels go beyond the headlines and offer a deeper analysis?

Sky news with Martin Stanford offered this and yet it was scrapped after not even a year.


This is not a question about sky news per se, it just happens to be the channel that i know the most about. So give me your views.

Exactly what the ITN News Channel was offering seven years ago!


I've actually caught a couple of these and the reason ratings are high is because it's snappy and you get a good 15-minute round up. You can then go elsewhere for the full story.

Considering news channels generally just operate the same hourly schedule throughout the day by the evening viewers are fed up of a story being analysed to death - and with primetime being when the big channels come into play, people are more likely to have 15-minutes to spare than watch a full hour.

180,000 viewers is not average for that show, infact its alot lower.

The 180,000 Figure was clocked on the night Robert Murat was arrested (14th May), it was later broken that night by Sky News at Ten which had 191,000 viewers.

Granted, but it is interesting to see how their top ten shows for that week were dominated by News, Sport and Weather.

So on average iti is the most watched.

Because its taken up so many slots.