[KatsKaravan]

So we have a new “prime time” show with Yalda Hakim, the new daily politics show, a new presenter on Sunday mornings… makes you wonder if anything else is planned.
Bolstering their world news line up is completely the right thing given the ‘competition’ from GB News. Wouldn’t be surprised if Yalda was number 1 on their list for the aborted Sky / NBC channel.

Hopefully this is just the start. Sky News has been stale for years so these changes are very welcome. I actually think Sky News will evolve more into what the SkyNBC channel was intended to be. I know BBC News is unpopular here since that was changed but it seems to be the direction of travel.

Not forgetting that James Rubin's World News Tonight was the big flop of the 2005 revamp and didn't even last a year.

Rubin was an atrocious presenter, though. There was nothing wrong with the content.

Me too - make it a genuinely international-focused agenda (like the BBC 9 once had) and a point of difference. You can't 'beat' the others, so do something different. And commercially makes sense - chase the audience your advertisers want to speak to, not numbers.

Sky News at Ten was only introduced originally because ITN vacated that slot (in '99 and again in 2017). Time for something new and different at 10. It might be good if NBC News Now showed it too. I expect Yalda will also present and report on location, for both Sky and NBC.