Sky News Ireland, how is it for you?

flogen

A few people have pointed out problems with Sky News Ireland, and there are rumours of it being wrapped up soon, so what do you make of it?

Personally, I think it defeats the purpose of 24 hour news. Im not a big fan of Sky News anyway, but when I heard about the Irish version, I expected it to be either extra coverage of Irish stories on their main broadcast, or Irish headlines broadcast every hour or so. Having 2 short shows a day means its not really always on, and suspicions that deadline for stories is 5 or 6 severly limits news.
What I've seen so far, its more feature than news, with info on stories which have been and gone for hours (or even days). If they made it more live there is a much better chance of it working out... at the moment its poor out of date stories thrown together.

flogen

mike65

Someones spotted this thread!

Its crap to be honest, I flicked it on tonight at 10.03pm and they were on the Gardai attacked story (3 fairly minor incidents) like it was news worth leading with.

Okay its not trival but frankly putting it above the 9/11 report, the Mahon Tribunal with P Flynn and Darfur plus a major train crash in Turkey shows what bad news values SKY NEWS IRELAND has. Oh they had an idiot poll too - should the Gardai be armed - it was pretty much 50/50. I worry about the kind of ppl watching!

Mike.

aphex™

The whole show looks very badly put together. People's names on screen sometimes flash for less than a second. Graphics flash up twice.

There is always a bulls*** sentimental story in there somewhere, about nothing. Pure Murdoch.

Yeah, the stories are out of date. They should have the weather chick actually IN ireland, and their graphic of ireland looks rather poor. They need more reporters too.

Everything went downhill after adam boulton left after the first weekend. He must have kicked them into shape then.

They don't know wheather to run international stories or not, they dont want to repeat whats already on the normal sky news, yet you might miss something if you were to only watch Sky Ireland bulletin.

They should have more (short) bullitins during the day. Wow, we might miss a few Dell ads, but who cares?

lee_baby_simms

The main problem seems to be that although i'm usually home at dinner time, i always miss it. After Canters on TV3 and Dobbo on the other side i'm newzed out.

Will sexy Seoige come crawlin back to TV3 if Sky News Ireland gets axed? I bet her contract allows her a spot on the main Sky News if the irish version goes belly up.

When i think about it, i've yet to meet someone who has any kind of strong opinion on Sky News Ireland.

JBoyle4eva

Well, the problem is that we really only get a half-hour. To me, sky News irealnd should not be a program, but a TV channel if it's really to suceed!

Now, I watched 'This Week'last night and it was pretty ok, but not great(And neither is TV3/RTÉ news either).

It's not a matter of not watching it, but a matter of when it should be on. It should be on in 2-4 hour intervals between 8AM-MIDNIGHT!

This really might pick things up for poor Sky News IRL!

flogen

Well according to Grainne herself in the News of the World today, Sky News Ireland is going no-where, and they get an average of 16,000 views a night. The 200 figure was supposedly taken from the England Penalty Shootout match, and also doesnt make sense as the Neilsen (is that the right name?) which counts viewer figures doesnt count 200, it would either be 0 or 500...

I am not going to mention the fact that the NOTW is owned by the same person behind Sky News, and so giving his own channel good publicity on his own paper is basic common business sense.... whoops.. I just did.

flogen

ArthurDent

Can't be doin with it myself. Tried it a couple of times, but find the choice of stories strange - seems to be dependent on having the big sentimental, feel good story than most channels and all-in-all very disjointed. I won't miss it if it's axed