The Sky News Thread

"a channel dedicated to diverse opinion", says Brazier (of GB News). The biggest nod yet to the imminent arrival of Piers?

As for Sky News music, a few days ago, Pip2 posted his TV Forum farewell montage tribute. It included a rendition of a particular piece of Sky News music. That was an awesome piece and far punchier than the flat music we have today (and woeful opening sequence visuals).

This refresh can't come soon enough.

Watching a piece about anti-vaxxers in France on Sky News, it's great to see that they've cut down on the dubbing of French speakers, except for the vox-pops.

I'm not sure I agree - it's an accessibility issue if you do that. If you are visually impaired, dyslexic etc. and don't speak French, and can't read the subtitles, then you have no idea of the content and are excluded from understanding that section of the report. If non-English content is dubbed into English, everyone understands the content (and the optional live subtitles still allow those with hearing impairments to understand)

Until the UK implements something like 'spoken subtitles' on an audio description service, like the Scandinavian countries have (where subtitling is the norm for non-native language shows, and the subtitles are read automatically by a speech synthesis system and fed on an alternative sound track) I'm not sure subtitling is a great solution.

I realise it's complex - and hearing the emotion of a speaker can convey content that isn't just present in the transcript - which is why you should hear a little bit of the original dialogue before it's dipped to be dubbed ideally.

New role for Tom Rayner.

Personal news: after Easter I’ll be taking on an exciting new role as Sky’s Digital Politics Editor.

We’ve got big plans for the way we cover UK politics and hope to launch some ambitious new digital initiatives in the months ahead.

I can’t wait to get started.

— Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) March 11, 2021

Noticed Noel Phillips on Good Morning Britain yesterday. When did he leave Sky?

At the end of the year. This is his first week on GMB

He joined GMB in November 2020.

Joined GMB this week

A HUGE story for our brilliant new @GMB North America Correspondent on his debut - welcome @Noel_Phillips 🙌🏼pic.twitter.com/i3KvkGzmHA

— Erron Gordon (@errongordon) March 8, 2021

Ali Bunkall is moving to the role of Middle East correspondent. Not sure what is happening with Mark Stone and what role he will move to.


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COMING UP on @RidgeOnSunday

The whole programme is being devoted to Sarah Everard and the issue of violence by men against women

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The whole programme!!

It's a shame it isn't Sophy this week as she's close in age to Sarah Everard which would be relatable to the audience affected by the murder.

I didn’t think Mark Stone was long into his spell as Middle East Correspondent? But perhaps covid has blurred the passing of time!
If Mark’s staying it might be a wider reshuffle or if he’s going we could see someone new externally take up Ali’s role of Defence Correspondent.

Alastair Bunkall was a great asset to Sky’s US Election coverage, co-hosted a few hours with Kay I seem to remember and provided good insight and analysis.