Sky News: Presentation Discussion

I imagine that depends on the political situation from 5.

He did that earlier with Alastair Campbell too, not doing himself or Sky any favours. One thing I've concluded from this whole campaign is Adam Boulton is just not in the Premier League!


Graphics though - in SD they worked really well, and arguably the slightly less info on screen than HD (though I've only seen the still) worked better. Also really liked the "vidi-printer" for results.

I guess with HD the main advantage was the graphics didn't cover half the screen. The newswall looked a lot clearer in SD than previously, but nothing elsewhere of note.

Dermot Murnaghan really sticking the knife into Labour. Relishing it almost.

Weather forecasts are pointless on SD at the moment because the large graphics cover the whole of the south of the UK.

Currently the Election Updates ticker at the bottom of the screen on Sky News HD shows "watch live in high definition on sky channel 517" however how can SD viewers see this when they have less graphics and now elections update ticker at the bottom of the screen.

Alister Campbell really made Adam mad and Adam did not do Sky any favors by getting really angry when Alister Campbell says the media is bias.

Newly remixed Sky News theme music now playing across some of the Sky News Active streams. Very nice remix

Edit: There's also two versions of the Fanfare playing too - one on the Headlines loop, and a different one on the Weather loop.

Quite liking Niall Paterson as a makeshift anchor whilst the others have a rest.

According to his twitter it was unplanned and because of technical problems.

Thought it might have been the case. Even better then.

Every time Adam Boulton comes out of the Conservative building he throws something on the road. When he first came out about 30 minute ago he threw his backpack down and left it unattended, this time he came out eating a cake and threw a half eaten piece on the ground. Jeremy Thompson picked it up and pocketed it, I guess he is getting hungry.

EDIT: Jeremy Thompson keeps giving a sideways look to the camera to see if he is still in shot. I bet he will eat that cake as soon as he is out of shot.

Is there any reason why they couldn't make the new graphic set available on the SD channel, or on a Sky News Widescreen. Granted I know some folk still use 4:3, but these 16:9 graphics look nicer.

My favourite moment from last night was when Gordon Brown's plane landed in London and Adam said 'there is Gordon Brown's plane...or more importantly Kay Burley's plane'.