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Sky News Ident
1998 Sky News was relaunched on 1st October 1998. Sky wanted to reflect each of the channel's own personality by creating individual idents, and not following one corporate look as seen in previous years.
 
The look was designed and produced by broadcast design specialist Pittard Sullivan in the US

Sky News Today
1998 Christopher Morris with Sky News Today in 1998

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1998 Bob Friend and Kate Garraway
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1998 Click for larger image Sky World News with Bob Friend and Kate Garraway

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1998 Gordon Radley with a 2am edition of Sky News
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Sky News Christmas
1998 Mark Longhurst presents a very festive edition of Sky News. A christmas pudding plus a tree!

Sky News Ten Years Ident
1998 Celebrating 10 years of breaking news, a new ident is introduced in 1999

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1999 Not to loose out on an opportunity Sky News introduced a 'special' News at Ten following the temporary move of ITV1's very own News at Ten.
 
Right clip - close, listen to the music.. hmm... just a hint of ITN!
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Some examples of content graphics...


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2000


Sky News Ident
2000 A variation of the 1998 ident for the new millennium

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2000 Click for larger image Sky News with Mark Longhurst and Emily Matlis

Sky News at Ten
2001 How not to introduce a new look. Sky rushed to introduce a new set and videowall in September 2001. Sadly the new titles and graphics weren't quite ready!

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2001 Click for larger image Budget day with Bob Friend and Anna Botting

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