Sky News: Presentation Discussion

And still they continue to broadcast it, why don't they just re-record her inserts

Is it just me, but I find the presentation on Sky at the moment really tired and dull.

They've have that lovely newscentre, but don't use it to full advantage.

The top of hour sequence and titles are repetative, and I've gone off this particular theme music arrangement.
Certainly not as good as 2001
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/skynews/2001.html
I'm ready for something different now.

It's not just you, these are exactly my words since 2 years now, but there is nothing which indicates a revamp. The theme music is a very repetitive bed which is used for EVERY sequence, the desk lights are out of order now since 2 years which also contributes to making the studio look incomplete and messy. Very dull compared to what it used to be 5 years ago. Very sad, presentationwise SkyNews is a shadow if its former self at the moment.

You say that, but the ratings say different. 3 years ago, Sky News had 0.5 share, now it's up to 0.7 and on a steady upward climb. 3 years ago, Sky News was trying to become more like FOX News in the US, now it's abandoned that idea and gone back to what it always should have been, straight reporting. That's what's real when it comes down to Sky News.

There was a very poor makeshift ticker (but not a ticker because it wasn't moving) when I turned to Sky News SD just after 22:00. It had the website, email and text number but it was really spaced out so the text number got cut off the right edge of the screen.

I think Sky News is fine at the moment. The style they have works.

I agree; I liked the variety of the mid-to-late 2000s look, but when the somber BBC is the market leader, well, maybe there's some rationale in going somber. (or sombre)

You can be straight and formal reporting but still be visually interesting.
Historically they've been straight making good use of the set, graphics and theme. They've fallen behind recently. A good chunk of the day is presented from an office corridor!

FOX news is a bad example. Just because their reporting has an agenda doesn't mean they way they present it is bad. Least there's some variety.

No, Fox may have a varied presentation, but that doesn't mean that it's good. Fox *does* look bad. They have some nice sets, but most of them are busy, and it's been reported before that their graphics department has a notoriously high turnover rate because of a poor work climate, which leads to constantly redone lower thirds that have no relation to one another, as one example.

Sky is different not just in terms of tone and content, but when they did have a more exciting presentation style, their graphics were plainer and crisper (again, relative to Fox), and their set has always looked a lot cleaner than Fox's. Pick any period in time, and Sky will always look and feel more polished than Fox.

This is exactly the point!

Surely they have maintenance people to fix the lighting in the desk etc... So if they're not fixing it then they aren't doing it out of lazyness? I do agree that the presentation is getting very dull and only a few years ago they had great presentation that was much better than the BBC and now it's opposite. Mmost of the times I watch sky news there is only a few shots that you see, the presenter shot, half a desk shot for sport, and a camera for the TOTH which doesn't show the full desk. Maybe they don't have the budget or staff etc? IMO

Usually from Sunrise up until just after the Midnight TOTH, the jib camera will be active. The Sunrise TOTH comes flying past the fins and frames up and the wide shot of the set. The newsroom backdrop programmes usually have the fins from the other side of he set flying to frame up the newswall shot. The gallery backed programmes usually pan and soom to above the desk, or fly up from the ground, both framing up as the newswall shot.

Simply, they don't need the OTT presentation they had before, yes it suited the programmes they had. Sky got rid of the 'appointment-to-view' programming and replaced them with standard bulletins, which means standard camera moves and presentation.