SkyNews wins the RTS Award News Channel of the Year

[arista]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/24/sky-news-channel-award



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"Sky News won news channel of the year for the second
year running at the 2011 Royal Television Society journalism
awards on Wednesday evening.
BSkyB's news network beat competition from al-Jazeera English
and BBC News Channel to scoop the coveted award,
in what was also a successful night for ITN,
which produces Channel 4 News and ITV News."





Feel The Force

[GiRTh]

****** me. How can they beat ITN or CNN.

[arista]

****** me. How can they beat ITN or CNN.


CNN is going through changes of staff
they lost there star reporter the Iranian woman.



SkyNews has brought faster Camera Live Feed
leaving the dusty old BBCNews still looking down at paper updates.


ITN/Ch4
did win other awards
"Gary Gibbon, the Channel 4 News political correspondent,
won specialist journalist of the year, and Rohit Kachroo
was named young journalist of the year"

[Locke.]

Should have been Sky Sports News

[arista]

Should have been Sky Sports News


To be fair
many of that team
are also on SkyNewsHD
so they help SkyNews to be Number 1.

[Locke.]

Sky Sports News has better presenters and more interesting stories on it though