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Sky News - Wikipedia. Sky News is a 2. 4- hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 2.

John Ryley is the Head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with other partners. Another sister channel, Sky News Australia, was part owned by Sky News parent Sky plc until December 2. 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, Roku and You.

Tube. History[edit]Establishment and early years[edit]On 8 June 1. 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 1. 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.

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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 £4. Sam Chisholm, chief executive of the newly merged BSky. B to suggest to Murdoch that the station to be closed, but Rupert was "pleased with its achievements ..

Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel."[2] – former deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw said in the House of Lords in 1. 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,[3] and has considered using ITN to supplement the service.[citation needed]By March 1. Sky News' parent company turned from loss to profit.[4] 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 2. Astra 1. A. It had no local competition until November 1.

BBC News launched a new 2. BBC News 2. 4, now known simply as BBC News. In September 1. 99. European Commission ruled against a Sky News complaint which argued that the publicly funded BBC News 2.

EU law. The EC ruled that the television licence feeshould be considered state aid (within the meaning of Article 8. BBC's public service remit justified the channel.[5]Sky News since 2. In March 2. 00. 0 Sky News Active was launched, a 2. In March 2. 00. 4 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 2. On 2. 4 October 2. 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.[7] New music was scored by Adelphoi Music and recorded with a full orchestra at Air Studios, Hampstead, and mastered at Metropolis Studios.[8] New on- screen graphics were launched and the channel began broadcasting in widescreen (1. The 2. 00. 5 relaunch also saw the introduction of a new schedule designed around "appointment to view" programmes rather than continuous rolling news.[7]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 1. Sky News Today saw the introduction of a three- presenter format. However the relaunched schedule was unsuccessful, and from October 2. BBC News channel overtook Sky News in the ratings.

In response to the schedule's unpopularity with viewers, changes took place in July 2. 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 2. 00. 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 Sky.

News. 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 2. Colin Brazier presenting a new show from 1 pm – 2 pm, The Live Desk, and Martin Stanford's Sky.

News became Sky. News. More changes took place during the early part of 2. 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 2.

Sky News was presented and produced exclusively by women to mark International Women's Day.[9] This exercise was repeated in 2. In preparation for the start of high- definition broadcasting, Sky News moved to its second studio (Studio B) on the morning of 3. March 2. 01. 0. 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 2. 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 2.

April; Sky News' distinctive orchestral theme music, in use since 2. Watch Rumble Dailymotion. May 2. 01. 0. The new title music, composed by David Arnold, was recorded with a 6. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Angel Studios, London and uses more than 1. Following the 2. 01.

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 2. 4 October 2. Sky News began broadcasting from a new studio (Studio 2. Sky Central, Sky's new headquarters in West London.[1. The "glass box" studio is used for broadcasts from 6 am to 6.

All Out Politics, which comes from Sky's Westminster studio). The schedule was also changed. In January 2. 01.

Sky moved its business operations into the News Building in central London.[1. From Summer 2. 01. Sky moved all its news operations to Sky Central.

Reception[edit]Sky News is free- to- air on the Astra 2. E satellites carrying Sky.

It is also available on Freeview and analogue and digital cable. In 2. 00. 7 BSky.

B announced its intention to cease broadcasting Sky News as well as other BSky. B channels over Freeview pending Ofcom approval.[1. Sky News International[edit]Sky News is also available internationally on cable systems, on satellite and in some hotels. While the UK feed is broadcast in 1.