SkyNews have gone all out to promote their makeover. And they’re not just releasing a couple of photos and a press release, they’ve put out a whole flash-based interactive tour of their new digs complete with a behind-the-scenes look at how they handle breaking news and the actual process involved in getting the story on the air. There are also interviews with anchors and behind the scenes staff such as camera operators, floor director, sound and so on.
Very interesting and the studio is awesome, I’m diggin the huge monitor wall behind the anchors. And something that I though was strange is that what we in the US call the control room, in the UK they call it “The Gallery”
Check it out – SkyNews virtual newsroom
Other differences include: the technical director (td) is the vision mixer. The td at Skynews has a larger picture position (no pun intended). With an interviewee, the vision mixer began in the graphics department.
It also appeared that the “internship” or training periods are much longer in the UK than here.