21-02-2023, 12:10 AM
(20-02-2023, 11:46 PM)DTV Wrote:I don’t think that was necessarily to do with presenters walking around the newsroom, though - more the surrounding presentation and perhaps the language used. Sky used to have big, lurid two-or-three word captions on the news wall behind presenters, often on a red background, which did make it look like the televised version of The Sun. I think that the standing up and presenting from the newsroom was (wrongly, IMO) seen as part of that - hence the sudden changes to chaining presenters to the main desk 24/7.(20-02-2023, 10:45 PM)Kojak Wrote: With talk of the BBC supposedly having presenters walking around the newsroom and pieces done from the balcony, I have to wonder if there will be any chance Sky will follow suit? They pioneered it in the UK, after all. Sky News Today from 2002-2005 was brilliant.We'll have to wait and see what happens, but the BBC News channel were going to be making regular trips into the newsroom when they moved in to NBH ten years ago - they did a bit on the first day, then gave up pretty quickly. Not surprising, it added nothing and was presumably a pain to organise.
I do hope the same happens here - I have no problem with multiple presentation areas or standing presentation, but prancing about is at best pointless and at worst downright distracting and irritating. I know a lot of you have a fondness for the Sky News Centre era, but for me it was presentationally fairly indistinguishable from 'what if The Day Today team had done a follow-up special 15 years later'.
Take a look at Franceinfo one time - they have a lot of what I’d call dynamic presentation, walking around and presenting from the newsroom - but it’s not tabloid in any way, shape or form. IMO it’s what Sky News should have evolved into. If you want an example of how Sky News could be more dynamic whilst still keeping their now-signature sober style - that is how it should be done.