Sky News

Sky News is a British rolling television news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from its headquarters in Osterley, near London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe. Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK. Although the station is targeted at the UK and Ireland, it is carried around the world on a number of services, particularly being favoured by expatriates who want to keep up-to-date with the latest news from home. The channel currently has seven UK bases each with their own correspondents, but the channel can also call upon a wide range of resources and global bureaux provided by its parent company NewsCorp.

Sky News has built its schedule around the main, highly experienced anchors with appointment to view broadcasts regularly being supplemented by landmark broadcasts. When major breaking news reaches the channel, it has more recently started to revert to the old double-headed style with two presenters anchoring. Sky News is famous for its innovations in news broadcasting and regularly wins awards for this and also for its broadcasting in general.

High Definition

Sky News has broken new ground in television news with the launch of the first UK news channel to broadcast in HD.  Sky News HD is a premium service broadcast on Sky channel 517, uniting first-class journalism, sharp picture quality and contextual graphics to bring our Sky+HD subscribers closer to UK and international news.

To be simulcast alongside Sky News’ existing standard definition channel, and with an updated HD studio, HD resources in the field and HD graphics delivering a new 3D look on air, Sky News HD delivers a clear, crisp and compelling new experience.

The move to embrace HD responds to increasing demand from our viewers for high quality programming with the intensity and vividness of HD and follows the channel’s successful first ever HD broadcast on Sky+HD and HD online streaming of Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.

News is also about the drama of human emotion: from the passion of a political speech and the anger of protestors to the joyful crowds at ceremonial events. Sky News HD is an opportunity to bring our viewers much closer to the news.

The Sky News Centre in West London has been upgraded to provide HD broadcast capability, and Sky News production teams have undertaken dedicated training, to get the most from HD technology. Even in areas like make-up, new techniques have to be used for HD broadcasting.

Business News

Sky News broadcasts breaking business news and information during the day, and displays market index data on its scrolling ticker.  During its two Live Desk segments, aired at 10:00 and 13:00 UK time respectively, the channel draws on its worldwide resources and broadcasts live updates from its sister station Sky News Business Channel in Australia during the morning segment, and from the Fox Business Network during the afternoon segment.

Watching Sky News

Sky News is available on channel 501 and Sky News HD on channel 517 and can be viewed in a number of rooms in your home via Sky Multiroom.  Sky News supplies breaking news to Sky Text. Selected Sky News output is available on Sky Anytime. Sky News is also available on freeview and cable on channel 82.

Sky News is also available in hotels at home and abroad, in pubs, clubs, bookmakers, shops and offices, student bars, gyms and financial trading floors. Huge screens at UK mainline railway stations, a live text service on Virgin Atlantic planes and a ticker service in Piccadilly Circus in London also help to keep you connected to the latest breaking news wherever you are.

Sky News is available to over 145 million people in Europe alone, plus to viewers across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Sky News is available across Continental Europe on a free-to-air basis on the Astra 1H satellite, and also through main cable, IPTV and satellite operators in Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe, with whom you should check for tuning and package details. If you have a DTH satellite system that receives channels from Astra 1H (19.2 degrees East) you will be able to receive Sky News on Transponder 111, 12.604/MHz, horizontal polarity.

Sky News is available in Israel through Yes and Hot Cable and on a pan-regional basis through ART or Orbit Showtime Network.

Sky News is available on the DStv platform in South Africa and across the African continent. Other operators which carry Sky News include Zuku in Kenya and HiTV in Nigeria.

Sky News is available in parts of Asia including Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia and Indonesia.

Sky News in Film & Television

Sky News selectively takes part in television and film productions. From Mission Impossible and Hustle to Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, Sky News correspondents have recorded news sequences, or Sky News has supplied footage, for dramas. In recent years, Jeremy Thompson has reported on the emergence of zombies in the hit comedy Shaun of the Dead, appeared in The Bourne Ultimatum, part of the critically-acclaimed Bourne series and appears alongside Kay Burley in Incendiary. Kay and Adam Boulton worked on the popular spy thriller Spooks.

Sky News Radio

Sky News Radio launched in 1999 and supplies national and international news to more than 300 Independent Radio News (IRN) stations, reaching 31 million listeners every week* around the UK. The IRN network includes Classic FM, talkSPORT, Absolute Radio, as well as Global Radio (with brands such as Capital, Galaxy, LBC and Heart) and bespoke bulletins, tailored to the personality of the station, for Bauer Radio (Magic and Kiss).

Sky News Radio is also heard around the world with bulletins on the Sky News website. A dedicated team of radio journalists operate a standalone service, but they can draw upon Sky News’ considerable 24-hour newsgathering resources, its specialist news, sport and entertainment journalists, and correspondents based in bureaux in the UK and around the world.

Sky News Radio provides a feed of the latest scripts and audio, including programme packages on the day’s top stories and regular business and showbiz summaries. Audio from Sky News and Sky Sports News TV is sent directly to radio newsrooms.

It also provides match day summaries from all English Premier League football games and other major soccer fixtures are supplied by reporters. A classified results service is provided at 1705 on Saturdays. Sky News Radio also covers the big events in cricket, rugby and other popular sports and audio on the latest stories.

Live and recorded interviews are provided with MPs and journalists from Sky News’ Millbank Studios in Westminster.

Sky News Radio has the ability to opt into Sky News TV output in the event of a major breaking story. It also supplies digital content – news stories in text and video to all the radio station websites it supplies.

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