What would you do if you were in charge of Sky News?

[Jascave]

It is a bit of a concern that Sky News has more talk shows (especially from the right wing sector) than hourly news updates which they used to do when they first started their news broadcasts in 1996.

So what would you do if you were in charge of Sky News? Would you keep the talk shows (ie Bolt, Paul Murray Live), or would you go back to hourly news updates every night?


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[Hawk Dork]

I think the formulas is great, preach to the base and make everyone else laugh

 

[Jascave]

This is what the evening lineup would look like if I was in charge of Sky News:

6:00pm Sky News Update
6:30 Bolt
7:00 Sky News Update
7:30 Speers Live
8:00 Sky News Update
8:30 Credlin
9:00 Sky News Update
9:30 Paul Murray Live


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[Number37]

They could keep all the personalities the same, the only thing that needs to change is the lies. Stop lying FFS.

 

[Donakebab]

I'd shut it down. Or turn it into the Fabulous Rainbow Channel ft. the Super Communist Atheist Friends.

 

[Benny78]

I'd cut the bullshit and go straight to Chris Webb and that 65 year old fox anchor that tans her skin and bleaches her hair. Hannity would help, so would "Tucker".

The David Speers guy is too moderate and "leftist". Credlin belongs in a grass paddock somehwere in Gippsland and not on tv

 

[Bomberboyokay]

This is what the evening lineup would look like if I was in charge of Sky News:

6:00pm Sky News Update
6:30 Bolt
7:00 Sky News Update
7:30 Speers Live
8:00 Sky News Update
8:30 Credlin
9:00 Sky News Update
9:30 Paul Murray Live

 

[pazza]

Shut it down. The right wing nutjob echo chamber.

 

[its free real estate]

Lots of coke

 

[go you pups]

Lots of coke

I'd actually love to hear what they'd be dribbling out on the piss/fizz

Or it could be more of the same

 

[TimmeT]

Shut it down. The right wing nutjob echo chamber.

LOL Sky News will never be as extreme or anywhere near as much of an echo chamber as the Essendon Board was during the peptides problem.

 

[Kram]

Shut it down. The right wing nutjob echo chamber.

The hard left on here definitely talk about and probably watch the channel more than anybody else.

 

[FredLeDeux]

If I was in charge of Sky News, I'd be Rupert Murdoch, and I'd do whatever I effing liked.
Provided there was a quid in it of course, that goes without saying.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It's entertainment, not news.

 

[FredLeDeux]

The hard left on here definitely talk about and probably watch the channel more than anybody else.

The what?!?!?
I've been looking for them, where are they?

 

[Number37]

The what?!?!?
I've been looking for them, where are they?

Anyone to the left of G_Crazy.

 

[Maggie5]

I'd sell it off to the Chinese. On air staff most likely wouldn't know the difference.

 

[NSWCROW]

What would i do ?

The same thing this nutter wanted to do to the world

 

[pastmyprimus]

After the next election I’d start a new show starring Abbott, Dutton and Hunt called Take a Hard Right

 

[pazza]

The hard left on here definitely talk about and probably watch the channel more than anybody else.

Not as much as the right does about the ABC!

 

[Badesumofu]

Sky during the day is mostly really good. Speers and co are great at what they do. Then after 6 PM it ceases to be a news channel and becomes a right wing news flavoured light entertainment channel. There are only so many times* you can watch a no-talent hack like Credlin implore her rich layabout viewers to 'have a wine while I explain the day's news to you' before you want to vomit.

*exactly one time

 

[Jascave]

Sky during the day is mostly really good. Speers and co are great at what they do. Then after 6 PM it ceases to be a news channel and becomes a right wing news flavoured light entertainment channel. There are only so many times* you can watch a no-talent hack like Credlin implore her rich layabout viewers to 'have a wine while I explain the day's news to you' before you want to vomit.

*exactly one time

If I was in charge of Sky News, the only time people like Peta Credlin, Alan Jones, Paul Murray could be on the channel is for special events like Budget or Election Nights, but not on a daily or weekly basis. Save their opinions for their respective radio programs.

If you match up Sky News against the ABC News channel, ABC News wins hands down because it got the balance just right-news updates sandwiched in between opinion programs, whereas Sky is focused more on getting people like the ones I mentioned above to air their views on the day's events, which might be alright for the right wing faction but not for those who come home from work or going out to dinner and wants to get informed on what happened that day in local, national, and world news plus what happened in sport or finance as well.

To give you an idea of what I mean, compare Sky News TV listing to that of ABC News for a weekday evening:

SKY NEWS

6-7pm: Credlin
7-8pm: The Bolt Report
8-9pm: Kenny on Media
9-10pm: Paul Murray Live
10-11pm: PML Later

ABC NEWS

6-7pm: ABC News Hour
7-8pm: The Drum
8-9:45pm: ABC News Tonight
9:45-10pm: The Business
10-11pm: The World

So which news channel has the better lineup?

 

[Jascave]

Maybe it’s time for Sky News to discard Andrew Bolt and have a 6pm News update every night with Peta Credlin’s show to follow afterwards.

So in this case, the Sky News evening lineup could look like this:

6-7pm: Sky News National

7-8pm: Credlin

8-9pm: Kenny on Media

9-11pm: Paul Murray Live


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[Rob]

The problem here is that those shitty talkshows actually rate, at least by pay TV standards.
Using last night as an example, 3 of the top 10 shows on pay TV were Bolt and PML, with Credlin coming in at 12.

Sadly, Bolt rates.

 

[Blue1980]

Using right wing logic of their recent election losses being due to not being far right enough. I think Sky’s low ratings are due to the same factor.

So I propose full on doubling down, find their own Alex Jones info wars style program.