Sky News thread

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Square Eyes Founding member 21 January 2004 4:51pm

adam08 posted:

If talking about N24, must agree, every since they "relaunched" its been terrible, why do they all have to have the same music and pictures( which are all sh*te ) The old sceme provided varity, instead of this exploding globe and the rest!, OH AND WHAT THE F*CK HAVE THEY DONE TO THE WORLD TODAY ON BBC WORLD, AND FOR THAT MATTER WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO BBC WORLD!!

JOIN THE "BRING BACK THE OLD BBC WORLD CAMPAIGN, i used to love the titles, music and graphic, now there oversized, sh*te and a pain in the arse

Well to be frank, this is a Sky News thread, your pathetic diatribe for BBC News 24 has no place here. And how do you think that throwing in a couple of expletives and capital letters helps your argument ? It makes you look of incredibly low intellect.

LO

Londoner 21 January 2004 5:04pm

Adam posted:

Is she the only Northern Correspondent?

No - there's also Mike McCarthy and Paul Harrison.

EM

Elektrik Media 21 January 2004 5:17pm

adam08 posted:

If talking about N24, must agree, every since they "relaunched" its been terrible, why do they all have to have the same music and pictures( which are all sh*te ) The old sceme provided varity, instead of this exploding globe and the rest!, OH AND WHAT THE F*CK HAVE THEY DONE TO THE WORLD TODAY ON BBC WORLD, AND FOR THAT MATTER WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO BBC WORLD!!

JOIN THE "BRING BACK THE OLD BBC WORLD CAMPAIGN, i used to love the titles, music and graphic, now there oversized, sh*te and a pain in the arse

We're (for once) NOT talking about News 24 here. Check the name of the thread!!!

DG

MD

mdtauk 21 January 2004 5:33pm

I wonder if SKYnews have any plans to cememorate their 15th Birthday on the 5th February?

They celebrated their 10th birthday, and with these new graphics and idents on the way, they will be able to change the text on the idents from 'over 10 years' to 'more than 15 years'

http://home.clara.net/jim.edwards/_borders/skynw.14.jpg
10 years ident
Sky 10 years promo
(Jim Edwards - TV World)

CA

cat 21 January 2004 7:32pm

There are a fair few Sky correspondents for the North of England, and bureaux in Manchester and either Leeds or Newcastle (possibly all three).

On the subject of correspondents and their locations - this whole India bureau is a bit of a puzzle. Is it the case that they are just shutting down the Beijing office and moving things to New Delhi, or are they actually going to appoint a new Beijing correspondent? You would've assumed that as one correspondent left Beijing, a new one would have been put in place, but so far there has been no sign of that.

Would be a bit of a stupid move to just leave the place vacant.

LO

Londoner 21 January 2004 7:44pm

c@t posted:

are they actually going to appoint a new Beijing correspondent? You would've assumed that as one correspondent left Beijing, a new one would have been put in place, but so far there has been no sign of that.

Press Gazette's report on Bestic's appointment as India correspondent said "the vacancy in Beijing will be advertised in the near future". But that was in November.

YO

yogibarney 21 January 2004 7:45pm

James Hatts posted:

edit @ 3.20: To be fair to Sky, they do have the Democrat house leader on now, whilst ITV NC is back to its recorded loop.

Are you all going barmy posting at a ridiculous time in the morning to comment on how each news channel is handling that us prat's speech

RT

rts Founding member 21 January 2004 7:54pm

Don't the new graphics arrive on Monday, or am I talking crap again.

LO

Londoner 21 January 2004 8:02pm

rts posted:

Don't the new graphics arrive on Monday, or am I talking crap again.

yes. you're a month early (if you believe the Sky News Appreciation site)

Last edited by Londoner on 21 January 2004 8:29pm

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mdtauk 21 January 2004 8:18pm

SKYnews have not announced a date, but there is still talk of January. I believe that there are some problems with the idents, with the graphics now complete.

All speculation... but they are due to announce a date soon as far as media-bullet are concerned.

RO

roo 21 January 2004 9:32pm

Why don't you just call them Sky News? As pedantic as it may seem, the frustration of seeing SKYnews here everyday is bottling up at a worrying rate.

:-(

A former member 22 January 2004 10:05am

Hmm Id never seen the 10 year celebration broadcast before. There was a little bit of a problem with the audio when SN launched. Penny Smith said "Your watching the World News from Sky Television, News every hour on the hour", then her co-presenter (cant remember his name ?) started reading the 1st story about some dodgy Russian Count's plans for an organ transplant service (nice tabloid-esque start there !) and the sound went all to pot....brave decision though to really "go live" on launch night when everyone was hoping they would mess up....!

(September 2003)