Sky News

Sky News
Launched 5 February 1989 (1989-02-05)
Owned by Sky plc
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9)
1080i (HDTV)
International:
576i (SDTV 16:9)
1080i (HDTV)
Audience share 0.67% (August 2018 (2018-08), BARB)
Slogan First for breaking news[1]
Broadcast area Worldwide
Sister channel(s) Challenge
Pick
Real Lives
Sky One
Sky Two
Sky Arts
Sky Atlantic
Sky Cinema
Sky Sports
Sky Sports Box Office
Sky Sports F1
Sky Sports News
Sky Witness
Website Official Website
Live Stream
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview
(UK)		 Channel 233
Satellite
Freesat
(UK)		 Channel 202
Sky
(UK & Ireland)		 Channel 501 (SD/HD)
Channel 875 (SD)
BFBS Channel 8
Sky
(Italy)		 Channel 522
NC+
(Poland)		 Channel 677
Astra 1L 11597 V 22000 5/6
Astra 2F 12207 V 27500 5/6
DStv Channel 402
Thor 5
(Canal Digital)		 11862 H / 28000 / 7/8
Yes
(Israel)		 Channel 103
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal
(Belgium)		 Channel 54
NOS
(Portugal)		 Channel 205
OSN (Middle East
& North Africa)		 Channel 401 (HD)
Canal
(France)		 Channel 362
MEO
(Portugal)		 Channel 203
Indovision
(Indonesia)		 Channel 336
Astro
(Malaysia)		 Channel 532 (HD)
DishHD
(Taiwan and China)		 Channel 6120 (HD)
Thaicom 6 11425 V 30000 3/4
Foxtel (Australia) Channel 605
Cable
Virgin Media (UK) Channel 602
Channel 603 (HD)
Virgin Media (Ireland) Channel 202
Channel 232 (HD)
KTV Ltd. (Falkland Islands) Channel 218
Com Hem
(Sweden)		 Channel 126
Kabel Deutschland Channel 839
Hot
(Israel)		 Channel 68
ZON TV
(Portugal)		 Channel 205
Magnet Networks
(Ireland)		 Channel 202
Naxoo
(Switzerland)		 Channel 61
MediaNet
(Maldives)		 Channel 111
StarHub TV
(Singapore)		 Channel 703 (SD)
Channel 757 (HD)
SkyCable
(Philippines)		 Channel 138
Destiny Cable
(Philippines)		 Channel TBA
Teledünya
(Turkey)		 Channel 73
WightFibre
(UK)		 Channel 119
Macau Cable TV (Macau) Channel 805
Cable TV Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Channel 121
IPTV
now TV
(Hong Kong)		 Channel 323
TrueIPTV
(Thailand)		 Channel 12
Freebox
(France)		 Channel 87
MEO
(Portugal)		 Channel 203
Mio TV
(Singapore)		 Channel 151 (HD)
CHT MOD
(Taiwan)		 Channel 559 (HD)
Unifi TV
(Malaysia)		 Channel 603 (HD)
Streaming media
Sky News Live Video Streaming (24/7)
YouTube Watch Live
Jalipo Subscription
Available only in Europe and United States.
Vingo.tv Alpha Registration Required
Narrowband Stream
Sky Go Watch live
(UK and Ireland only)
Virgin TV Anywhere Watch live (UK only)
Watch live (Ireland only)
Livestation Watch Live
Apple TV Sky News app (UK, Ireland and United States)
Roku Sky News channel
Foxtel app Chanel 605 (Australia only)

Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 24-hour television news channel. John Ryley is the Head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. Sky News is currently Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the eleventh time it has held the award.[2]

A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation. Another sister channel, Sky News Australia, was part owned by Sky News parent Sky plc until December 2016. A channel called Sky News International, with the same news content as the UK channel but without British adverts, is available in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Sky News Radio provides national and international news to commercial radio and community radio stations in the UK and to other English-language stations around the world. Sky News also provides content to Yahoo! News. The channel is available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and YouTube.

History

Establishment and early years

On 8 June 1988, Rupert Murdoch announced plans to start a new television news service in a speech to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta). Sky News started broadcasting at 6 pm on 5 February 1989.

Visually Sky News looked very neat, with slick and classy presentation and John O'Loan's original vocation as an architect showing in the studio set. Sky had gone for the same format as the Nine O'Clock News on the BBC, which had recently been redesigned to give the impression of activity and immediacy by placing the newsreader against a backdrop of the working newsroom. Sky News, it was universally agreed as staff nodded in vigorous approval, had succeeded rather better at the same thing. The critics were mildly taken aback. Contrary to some of the horror scenarios bandied about by the chattering classes there seemed to be little to grumble about. And as its slogan of 'We're there when you need us,' emphasised, it was always on.

In the early days, the channel operated on a £40 million budget (plus £10 million share of overheads), which led Sam Chisholm, chief executive of the newly merged BSkyB to suggest to Murdoch that the station to be closed, but Rupert was "pleased with its achievements ... there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it ... the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel."[3] – former deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw said in the House of Lords in 1990 that Sky News had "a very high reputation ... I admire it, as do many other people, it will certainly waken up both the BBC and ITN and ensure that they compete with what is a very important news service". The channel has never been run for a profit,[4] and has considered using ITN to supplement the service.

By March 1992, Sky News' parent company turned from loss to profit.[5] On the channel's growth, Murdoch said at that time: "Sky News, has quietly, if expensively, become the first building block of what we envision will become the premier worldwide electronic news-gathering network anywhere. Ask anyone in Europe, and particularly the BBC and you will be told that Sky News has added a new and better dimension to television journalism."

Sky News was the UK's first 24-hour news channel, broadcast on Astra 1A. It had no local competition until November 1997 when BBC News launched a new 24-hour channel, BBC News 24, now known simply as BBC News. In September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a Sky News complaint which argued that the publicly funded BBC News 24 was unfair and illegal under EU law. The EC ruled that the television licence fee should be considered state aid (within the meaning of Article 87) but that the BBC's public service remit justified the channel.[6]

Sky News since 2000

Former Sky News logo used until 2018

In March 2000 Sky News Active was launched, a 24-hour interactive service providing headlines (and other services which ranged from weather, the top story of the day and showbiz) on demand.

In March 2004 it was announced that Sky News had won a five-year contract to supply news bulletins to Channel 5, taking over from ITN in January 2005.[7]

On 24 October 2005, Sky News moved to new studios in Isleworth, London, and underwent a major on-screen revamp. The new studio was integrated with the newsroom and boasted the biggest video wall in Britain; it was designed by New York architects Janson Design Group.[8] New music was scored by Adelphoi Music and recorded with a full orchestra at Air Studios, Hampstead, and mastered at Metropolis Studios.[9] New on-screen graphics were launched and the channel began broadcasting in widescreen (16:9) format.

The 2005 relaunch also saw the introduction of a new schedule designed around "appointment to view" programmes rather than continuous rolling news.[8] James Rubin joined to present a new evening programme called World News Tonight, Julie Etchingham presented another new "hard-hitting" evening show called The Sky Report, Eamonn Holmes joined to present Sunrise, Kay Burley presented a new programme called Lunchtime Live from 12 to 2 pm, and the daytime show Sky News Today saw the introduction of a three-presenter format. However, the relaunched schedule was unsuccessful, and from October 2005 the BBC News channel overtook Sky News in the ratings.

In response to the schedule's unpopularity with viewers, changes took place in July 2006, involving the removal of the evening programmes replaced by rolling news and an interactive programme, Sky News with Martin Stanford, and the return to a two-presenter format on Sky News Today. These changes came at the time of the arrival of John Ryley, who is still the head of Sky News.

On 1 October 2007 Sky introduced another new schedule, extending Kay Burley's Lunchtime Live programme and renaming it Afternoon Live. It also switched to a new format for much of the day, with a solo lead presenter and a summary newsreader. Sky News put more emphasis on interactive news with Martin Stanford's new SkyNews.com programme; an early evening financial news programme presented by Jeff Randall, was also introduced, initially on Mondays only.

Further changes were made to the Sky News schedule on 8 September 2008, with Colin Brazier presenting a new show from 1 pm – 2 pm, The Live Desk, and Martin Stanford's Sky.com News became SkyNews.com, moving to 7 pm every weeknight.

More changes took place during the early part of 2009. These changes involved major changes to the layout of the newsroom/studio, the introduction of a morning edition of The Live Desk and the extension of the financial news programme Jeff Randall Live to run for four nights each week, Monday to Thursday.

From 6 am to midnight on 8 March 2010, Sky News was presented and produced exclusively by women to mark International Women's Day.[10] This exercise was repeated in 2011 and 2012.

In preparation for the start of high-definition broadcasting, Sky News moved to its second studio (Studio B) on the morning of 30 March 2010. Broadcasting from Studio B continued until 9 pm on 6 May, when it moved back to the main newsroom and launched Sky News HD in time for the 2010 General Election results. Sky News received a graphics refresh and a new logo to coincide with the launch of the new HD channel – this was tried out during the soft launch for Sky News HD on 22 April; Sky News' distinctive orchestral theme music, in use since 2005, was also replaced on 6 May 2010.

The new title music, composed by David Arnold, was recorded with a 60-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Angel Recording Studios, London and uses more than 132 audio channels for 18 seconds of sound.[11]

Following the 2015 General Election, Sky News was rebranded, with a new top-of-the-hour sequence and on-screen graphics. The traditional opening voiceover, read by Bruce Hammal, was dropped after two decades in use.

On 24 October 2016, Sky News began broadcasting from a new studio (Studio 21) at Sky Central, Sky's new headquarters in West London.[12] The "glass box" studio is used for broadcasts from 6 am to 6.30 pm each weekday (with the exception of All Out Politics, which comes from Sky's Westminster studio). The schedule was also changed.

In January 2017, Sky moved its business operations into the News Building in central London.[13]

On 16 January 2018, Sky moved all its news operations over to Studio 21 "the glass box", and a new studio in Sky Studios. The logo was also refreshed along with the graphics.

On 3 April 2018, 21st Century Fox made two proposals regarding the Sky acquisition: They would either sell Sky News to The Walt Disney Company (which would be a separate transaction from the Disney-Fox merger), or to separate Sky News from Sky plc.[14][15][16]

On June 19, 2018, it was reported that Disney has agreed to acquire Sky News.[17] Once completed, it will be the company's third attempt to venture into news broadcasting, following ABC News Now and Fusion TV.

Reception

Sky News is free-to-air on the Astra 28.2°E satellites carrying Sky. It is also available on Freeview and analogue and digital cable. In 2007 BSkyB announced its intention to cease broadcasting Sky News as well as other BSkyB channels over Freeview pending Ofcom approval.[18][19]

Sky News International

Sky News is also available internationally on cable systems, on satellite and in some hotels. While the UK feed is broadcast in 16:9, the international version remained broadcast in a 4:3 picture format until August 2010.

The international version is shown as free-to-air on Astra 1L at 19.2° east. It is also carried encrypted on a number of satellites for international reception–including but not limited to Hot Bird, Nilesat, Amos 1 and Intelsat 10-02. It is also usually carried on cable systems in Europe, particularly (but not only) in Northern Europe, especially in the Scandinavian countries.

International viewers receive the same programming line-up of Sky News as the UK version. Brief news stories, entertainment news, worldwide weather forecast summaries, and the front pages of international newspapers are broadcast in lieu of commercials. The timepiece on the lower left-hand side of the ticker is covered with a banner that says 'skynews.com'.

Sky News is not available on Sky Deutschland, Sky plc's offering in Germany but is available on Sky Italia.

On 19 June 2013 Sky News International was added to Apple TV for users in the UK, Ireland and United States. Viewers can watch clips or live streaming of the channel at no charge.[20] On 24 July 2013, it was added to the Roku streaming player. Sky News International is available on news.sky.com to viewers around the world. On 30 September 2014, Sky News began live streaming the channel on YouTube.[21]

Sister channels

Sky News Australia was one-third owned by Sky plc until December 2016, when it was acquired by News Corp Australia.[22] It carries Sky News UK overnight and shares some of its presentational style. On Foxtel in Australia, Sky News UK is available on Sky News Active.

From 2004 to 2006,[23] Sky News Ireland broadcast two newscasts produced in Dublin. The newscasts were cancelled due to low viewership. Sky News in Ireland now carries the same programming as Sky News in the UK but with local advertising.

Sky News Arabia, broadcasting in Arabic and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, launched in 2012. Sky plc owns 50% of the channel.[24]

SkyTG24 is Italy's version of SkyNews.

Previous Partnership with CBS News

Until 2017, Sky News had a resource-sharing agreement with CBS News in the United States to share footage and reporting. In July 2017, in the wake of Sky's pending takeover by 21st Century Fox (which runs the competing and de facto sister Fox News Channel in the U.S.), and NBC News acquiring a stake in Euronews, CBS ended the agreement and entered into a similar deal with the BBC.[25]

Sky News HD

Former Sky News HD logo (2015-2018)
Former Sky News HD logo (2010-15)

Beginning in early 2008, Sky News began using HD-capable cameras in the field. Some one-off programmes were made available in HD to Sky+ HD subscribers on Sky On Demand. The programmes included Technofile, Diana: The Final Word, Canoe Man: Rise and Fall of John Darwin and Pathfinders: Into The Heart Of Afghanistan.

On 20 January 2009, before the launch of the Sky News HD channel, Sky Arts broadcast Sky News coverage in HD of the Inauguration of Barack Obama. Jeremy Thompson fronted the coverage from Washington, D.C. Michael Jackson's memorial service was also broadcast in HD, with Kay Burley presenting.

Sky News moved operations to a chroma-key set in Studio B from 30 March 2010 so that final preparations for HD could take place in the main newsroom.[26]

The first live broadcast of Sky News HD, on Sky Channel 517, was the channel's election debate which was held on 22 April 2010. For the 10 days leading up to the debate, channel 517 displayed a countdown clock to launch. The debate was hosted in HD by Kay Burley and Adam Boulton. Following the end of the coverage for the evening, channel 517 moved to show a looping preview tape. The tape included the HD which were available on Sky Anytime. The loop continued until Sky News HD was launched on the evening of 6 May 2010, coinciding with the coverage of the 2010 General Election results, hosted by Adam Boulton.

On 26 July 2010, Sky News HD launched on the OSN Network, broadcasting to the Middle East and Africa.[27]

On 1 January 2015, Sky News HD launched on Virgin Media.

Sky News Radio

Sky News Radio provides news bulletins to radio stations in the United Kingdom and to other English-language radio stations around the world.[28]

In March 2007, BSkyB and Chrysalis Group announced plans to launch a dedicated Sky News Radio station on the proposed bid by Channel 4's 4 Digital Group for the second DAB multiplex in the United Kingdom.[29] However, two months later Chrysalis sold its radio stations to Global Radio,[30] and in October 2007 following a business review Global's chief executive announced that it would be withdrawing from the joint venture.[31]

The Sky News Radio feed is available free-to-air on the Astra 2A satellite at 28.2 East by tuning it manually: 12207.00 V, 27500, 2/3 (Label: SNR).[32]

On-air staff

In-depth series

The channel occasionally focuses on specific areas of society and current affairs. Past examples include Inside Iraq, Green Britain and Crime Uncovered.[33]

Pakistan: On Terror's Frontline was shown throughout the week beginning Monday 23 March 2009.[34] A Sky News press release stated:

The series of reports won a 2009 RTS Award for International News Coverage.[35]

Criticism and perception

Sky News viewing peaked during 11 September attacks, Iraq War, Asian tsunami, 7 July 2005 London bombings and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales but has generally declined to a quarter achieved in 1992–95

Sky News operates under United Kingdom broadcasting regulations which require impartial, unbiased coverage and prevent the channel from being encrypted in the UK. The channel is viewed by some in the media establishment as an impartial and unbiased provider of news.[36]

There are occasional claims[37][38][39][40][41] that Sky News may be inherently biased due to the fact that it is majority-owned by 21st Century Fox; most of 21st Century Fox's (and News Corp, in which Rupert Murdoch also has an ownership interest) news outlets have an openly conservative or right-wing outlook. In a 2010 article in the New Statesman, prominent journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan argued that "in style and in substance, of course, it is nothing like the pro-war, pro-Republican, pro-Palin Fox News Channel... Sky News remains, as far as I can see, free of party political bias."[37]

Ofcom received complaints regarding the network's lack of neutrality ahead of the 2010 General Election, but these were not upheld.[38][41][42]

In early 1994 Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun newspaper, was appointed managing director of BSkyB, Sky News's parent company at the time. MacKenzie's proposed changes to Sky News led to clashes with CEO Sam Chisholm and the head of Sky News, Ian Frykberg, who protested at what they saw as an attempt to take the channel's news values downmarket. The most ferocious battle occurred when Mackenzie wanted Sky News to run an interview with Lady Bienvenida Buck. Frykberg refused to air the interview and resigned shortly afterwards. The interview was broadcast on Sky One.[43] MacKenzie announced his resignation in August 1994,[43] but not before Sky News had transmitted live pictures of the freeway chase of OJ Simpson white Bronco on 17 June 1994 bringing US helicopter journalism to the UK.[44]

In 1997 Sky News broadcast live coverage of Louise Woodward's trial, held in Boston, Massachusetts.[45] When Sky returned to a regular schedule, viewers demanded the trial coverage be continued.[45] Sky News broadcast reaction from Woodward's home town of Elton, Cheshire, leading to criticism that the station had a pro-Louise Woodward stance.[45]

In November 2005 the then head of BBC News, Peter Horrocks, acknowledged that Sky News remained the first choice for "key opinion formers".[46]

Ofcom received 652 complaints regarding the network's neutrality after it hosted the second leaders' debate ahead of the 2010 General Election.[38]

Ofcom received 832 complaints about a May 2010 interview with electoral reformist David Babbs conducted by Sky News presenter Kay Burley. The interview led to Burley being heckled by protesters while reporting from Westminster, and further protest via a Twitter campaign.[47]

Ofcom received 696 complaints relating to Sky News's then political editor Adam Boulton's conduct during an interview with Alastair Campbell.[48]

In 2014, Sky News journalist Colin Brazier rifled through an MH17 victim's possessions on live TV. He picked up objects and briefly described what he had before putting them down and saying "we shouldn't really be doing this I suppose, really". 110 complaints were submitted to Ofcom. Sky News stated both Brazier "and Sky News apologise profusely for any offence caused".[49]

Sky News was again embroiled in controversy in October 2014, when crime correspondent Martin Brunt and his camera crew doorstepped Brenda Leyland, who had posted controversial comments concerning the McCann investigation on social media.[50][51] Following the confrontation Leyland was found dead in a hotel, leading to calls on social media for Brunt to be sacked.[52] During the inquest into Leyland's death, Brunt expressed to the coroner that he was devastated at hearing the news of Leyland's suicide. Following the inquest, Ofcom reported it had received 171 complaints in relation to the case and that it would consider these complaints in light of the coroner's verdict.[53]

In 2015, Kay Burley caused further controversy when, in response to the November 2015 Paris attacks, she tweeted a photograph of a Golden Retriever dog, to which she had added, "Sadness in his eyes #parisattacks".[54][55]

Fabrication

In April 2003, Sky News carried a report from James Forlong aboard the British nuclear submarine HMS Splendid purportedly showing a live firing of a cruise missile during the Iraq war. The report was a fabrication, with the crew acting along for the benefit of the cameras. The Sky News team did not accompany the submarine when it left port and the scenes were actually recorded whilst the vessel was docked. The shot of the missile launch had been obtained from stock footage.

The faked report was revealed because another film crew did accompany the vessel to sea, and its footage showed that a modern missile is not launched by a crew member pressing a red button marked with the word "FIRE", as had been portrayed in the Sky News report, but is actually launched with a left mouse click. When the fabrication was exposed, Forlong and his producer were suspended. The next day, The Guardian reported that Forlong had resigned following an internal investigation.[56] In a follow-up article, The Guardian speculated on the long-term effects on Sky News credibility.[57] In October 2003, Forlong was found dead by his wife after committing suicide.[58] In December, Sky News was fined £50,000 by the Independent Television Commission for breaching accuracy regulations.[59][60]

In August 2016 Sky News was criticised after allegedly paying €2,000 to a group of Romanians to pretend they were part of an eastern European gang selling guns to terrorists in Syria. The Romanians were arrested by Romanian DIICOT and confessed that they were paid by Sky News journalist Stuart Ramsay to pretend they were gun traffickers. The guns featured in the report were legally owned and were hunting weapons.[61][62] Sky News has said it stands by the story.[63]

In April 2018, British former diplomat Craig Murray suggested that Sky News had altered an interview with Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the UK's chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, Salisbury, to make it more favourable to the UK government's claim that Russia had poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal.[64] A heated interview and Twitter dispute between Murray and Kay Burley followed.[64]

In late September 2018, former EDL leader, Tommy Robinson was involved with an interview with Sky's Jason Farrell, where he talked about Muslim grooming gangs. A main point that he brought up, in a video he brought up on his own youtube channel[65] a little over 24 hours after Sky uploaded the interview to their channel, was that Sky had altered the interview to paint him in a more negative light. The title of the interview, on Sky's channel was "Tommy Robinson: I don't care if I incite fear of Muslims"[66] whereas, as Tommy and many others have pointed out, the Youtube transcript of the video says "I don't care if it encites fear of muslims", the segment where this came up in was about a video shown to school children in the Netherlands on how to stop them being involved in grooming gangs. Robinson, also had a friend with him, secretly recording the full interview. Robinson also said, that he was there for over an hour, which ended up being an interview that was uploaded at just under 10 minutes long, with most questions edited out of context. As a result of all the backlash to the interview, Sky first disabled comments on the video and then deleted it. Tommy stated in his personal video, that he was going to take Sky to court for what they did to the interview.

  • November 2008 – BSkyB paid substantial undisclosed libel damages to Robert Murat in relation to their reporting of the abduction of Madeleine McCann. Sky News had falsely suggested that Murat, who was assisting in the search of McCann, had acted like child murderer Ian Huntley following McCann's disappearance. Sky News also falsely accused Murat of misleading journalists into thinking he was working for the police. An apology was also placed on the Sky News website, the libellous material removed and Murat's costs were paid.[67]
  • November 2010 – the Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve QC, was given the right to launch contempt of court proceedings against Sky News over the broadcaster's alleged breach of a media injunction. It was in relation to the reporting of the story of Paul and Rachel Chandler, a Kent couple who were held captive by Somali pirates for 13 months. The media was blocked from publishing details of the couple's "health and welfare" prior to their being freed on 14 November 2010. Sky claims that it "scrupulously observed the terms of the injunction", but also admitted that it "followed the spirit, if not the letter" of the order. At the time, lawyers representing the Chandlers obtained the court order over fears that their lives could be put in danger by the media reporting their capture. Sky News was alleged to have breached the injunction on the day of their release around from Somalia, leading the Attorney General to seek permission at the High Court to bring contempt proceedings.[68] The Attorney General dropped the case in January 2012; a spokesperson for his office said that continuing with proceedings would no longer be in the public interest.[69]
  • March 2013 – Sky News journalist Mark Stone and his camera operator were detained in Tiananmen Square live on British television, in what he described as a surreal but telling episode about reporting in China. Viewers saw Stone being directed into a police van live from Beijing. The square is a popular tourist site near the regime's nerve centre and the scene of 1989 democracy protests that were crushed by the Chinese authorities. A police officer was filmed asking the Sky team to switch off their camera, saying they were now inside the Forbidden City and did not have permission to film there. While they had permission to film in the square, Stone said police told him the team were not displaying their passes correctly, and noted he was not carrying his passport as required. China's foreign ministry insists that press censorship does not exist in the country, but journalists report the constant threat of interference from government officials.

Awards

Sky News won BAFTA awards for coverage of the 11 September 2001 attacks[70] and the 2002 Soham murders.[71]

Sky News's coverage of the 7 July 2005 London bombings won the 2006 International Emmy for Breaking News award, the coverage was commended as "fast and accurate".[72]

In June 2007, Sky News was named Best News Channel at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards. It beat several other national and international broadcasters, including Al Jazeera English and the BBC.[73]

The channel won a BAFTA Award in the News Category on 10 May 2015, for Alex Crawford's coverage of the 2014 Ebola crisis.[74]

In 2018, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the eleventh time the channel had won the award.[75][76][77]

Sponsorship

In November 2014, Sky News sponsored the Young Person in Business category of the National Chamber Awards. It was won by Oliver Bryssau of Origin Broadband, which was named Business of the Year.

Bureaux and studios

Sky News has bureaux across the world, some are operated in conjunction with other media outlets.

Bureaux

Additional live studios

Online

News.sky.com[79] is the channel's main website. It provides news, sport, weather, showbiz and business stories.

In 2009, the website changed to bring it in line with the on-screen look of Sky News. The site made use of Flash video encoding to match the visual style of the TV channel with pictures and breaking news. The site underwent a further refresh in 2012, when both the look of the pages and the content management system were updated.

Virgin Media dispute

On 1 March 2007, Sky's agreement to provide its basic channels (including Sky News) to Virgin Media expired.[80] At midnight, Sky News was removed and the EPG entry for the channel was changed to "Sky Snooze Try BBC" until Sir Richard Branson demanded the message be removed,[81] saying: "I have asked them to take it down. We do not mean any disrespect to Sky News. I think it is a very good news channel."

Sky News, and the other Sky channels that had been removed, reappeared on Virgin Media on 13 November 2008.

See also

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