That can explain Sunday programming but the night time talking heads are still their all this week and still have repeats scheduled after midnight so hopefully this is a permanent change although I would not mind another hour of live Sky News during the afternoon
This has come up from time to time but Sky these days using 7 & 9 news content is very limited, surely having an extra hour of Sky News On SNOW in the afternoon would not be too hard unless you are suggesting that over summer they will cut back and source more content from 7 & 9
Itās not just packages and content directly identifiable as 7 and 9ā¦ thereās any vision thatās shot by a network camera that may be used as overlay or used in a Sky package. Thereās more of it in use than you might think.
They could easily do an extra hour, but theyāre not going to prejudice the main product more than theyāre commercially obliged to.
Thereās a reason the only live hour of general news in 10am
As far as the elimination of the daytime repeats are concerned, I can only hope thatās permanent too.
It could be that thereās a lot of sport happening and FSN will offer live updates during play.
The idea of repeating feature programming is kind of last century anyway, if you canāt watch it live then most people can either set their PVR or watch it on demand.
Sky have ripped the guts out of it and so much talent has left FS News since they moved over 18 months ago. Abbey Gelmi, Glenn Lauder, Zac Bailey, Emma Lawrence, Louise Ransomā¦just to name a few.
If thatās true itās got nothing to do with Sky.
The ticker is maintained by Fox Sports digital which is still at Gore Hill and under the general Fox Sports umbrella.
While there are areas where improvements could be made Paul Gregg and his team created what was generally an excellent product given the budget limitations placed upon it by NewsCorp not Sky News.
Plus it went from a sports headline service with just 4 to 5 hours live programming a day to 20 hours live a day.
Yes, people left because they werenāt interested in the news channel workflow that was required. Thatās entirely legitimate and it was their choiceā¦ but itās not necessarily indicative of a failure by Sky.
And yes, the channel is under resourced. But the shots are being called by Holt Street.
Iād say quite a few people arenāt interested in having their future careers tarnished by the drongos on after dark at Sky and the brand damage theyāve done.
The amount of on-air and off-air talent (well over half a dozen, with some moving to the ABC and a couple of others in political advisory-type roles) which has fled Sky Opinion News Australia this decade is breathtaking.
Not sure about everyone else, but Iād almost prefer to be working in regional news than Sky if I was a broadcast journalist!
Indeedā¦ but the nature of this discussion was the number of staff leaving FSNā¦ and that had more to do with changed work practices than Sky News ātaintā
As far as careers are concerned there is perhaps an element of stigma in the wider community but the hirers and firers in Australian media know talent when they see it and arenāt put off by perceptions.
