Sky News Australia is an Australia

Australia

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n 24 hour cable

Cable

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 and satellite

Satellite

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 news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

, Austar

Austar

Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. Its main business activity is Subscription Television but it is also involved with internet access and mobile phones...

, Optus Television

Optus Television

Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus.-History:Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between, Optus and Continental Cablevision with small shareholdings by media companies Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Seven...

 and Neighbourhood Cable

Neighbourhood Cable

Neighbourhood Cable is a telecommunications provider based in regional Victoria, Australia . Neighbourhood Cable owns and operates Hybrid Fibre Coaxial cable networks in three Victorian regional cities:* Mildura* Ballarat* Geelong...

 subscription platforms.

Sky News Australia launched on 19 February 1996, as the first Australian-produced television news channel. The channel was added to Austar on 1 April 2000. In 2004 Sky began broadcasting Sky News Active, its on-demand interactive TV news service. In 2008 it launched the Sky News Business Channel

Sky News Business Channel

Sky News Business Channel is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite business news channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television subscription platforms, owned by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd.-History:...

, and on 20 January 2009 it launched Australian Public Affairs Channel (A-PAC)

A-PAC

A-PAC is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available on Foxtel and Austar platforms. On 15 November 2009, A-PAC's channel location for Foxtel changed from Channel 607 to Channel 648.-History:...

. It began widescreen broadcasting on 17 May 2009. In July 2010, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 launched ABC News 24

ABC News 24

ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

 a free-to-air 24-hour news channel which competes with Sky News Australia.

Current Presenters

News Presenters

• Jim Waley
  Jim Waley
  Jim Waley is a veteran & experienced Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network, an Australian television network.-Career:In 1981, Waley was appointed founding presenter of Sunday...
  
   (on leave)
• Leigh Hatcher
  Leigh Hatcher
  Leigh Hatcher is an Australian journalist and currently works as a news presenter for Sky News Australia.Hatcher's career highlights include working as the bureau chief for the Macquarie Radio Network in the Canberra Press Gallery...
  
  
• Sharon McKenzie
• Terry Willesee
  Terry Willesee
  Terry Willesee is an Australian journalist and television presenter.-Biography:Willesee is the son of Don Willesee, a long-time member of the Australian Senate and Whitlam Government minister. He is the brother of Mike Willesee, also a journalist and television presenter.-Media career:Willesee...
  
  
• Nina May
• Jacinta Tynan
  Jacinta Tynan
  Jacinta Tynan has been a news presenter and journalist for more than 12 years, she is currently a news presenter on Sky News Australia, where she has been since 2005....
  
  
• Michael Willesee, Jr.
  Michael Willesee, Jr.
  Michael Willesee, Jr. is an Australian television journalist with Sky News Australia.-Career:He began his career in journalism with The Australian newspaper in 1990....
  
  
• Susanne Latimore
  Susanne Latimore
  Susanne Latimore is an Australian television journalist.Latimore began her career at 19 years of age as a cadet journalist with the Blacktown Guardian newspaper and later The Hills News in Sydney after which she moved to Sydney radio station 2WS as a general duties reporter...
  
  
• Vanessa Trezise

Sport Presenters

• Chris Roe
  Chris Roe
  Chris Roe is an Australian broadcaster and journalist and is currently employed as a news and sports presenter with Sky News Australia.Chris comes from Bourke in outback New South Wales.-Career History:...
  
  
• Paul Gregg
• James Bracey
  James Bracey
  James Bracey is the Sky News Australia's Sports Reporter.While studying at the University of Newcastle, James got a job at Australia's subscription news channel Sky News Australia in 2004...
  
  
• Luke Doherty
• Megan Barnard
  Megan Barnard
  Megan Barnard is a Sports Reporter for Sky News Australia.Megan studied at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, completing a Bachelor of Mass Communication, majoring in Journalism before joining NBN Television on the Gold Coast as a Sports Reporter.She joined Australia's...
  
  
• Tiffany Cherry
  Tiffany Cherry
  Tiffany Cherry is an Australian sports broadcaster, best known for her role as boundary rider on the now defunct Fox Footy in the channel's AFL coverage...
  
  
• Matt Shirvington
  Matt Shirvington
  Matt Shirvington is an Australian athlete and television presenter who held the Australian 100m national sprint title from 1998 to 2002...
  
  
• Sam Derrick
• Yvonne Sampson
• Ben Damon
  Ben Damon
  Ben Damon is an Australian journalist.-Career:Prior to his resignation, Ben presented the weeknight sport report for Sydney's edition of Seven News, since the departure of Matthew White who now hosts Today Tonight East Coast Edition...
  
  

Reporters

• Celina Edmonds - National Affairs
• Ahron Young - Melbourne
• Loretta Johns - Melbourne
• Cameron Price - Sydney
• Adam Harvey - Perth
• Julia Wood - Perth
• Tom Connell - Brisbane

Canberra Bureau

• David Speers
  David Speers
  David Speers is an Australian journalist and the political editor at Sky News Australia. He worked with the Macquarie Radio Network, including the station 2GB, and the Southern Cross radio network, including stations 2UE and 3AW, before joining Sky in 2000. He has been a member of the National...
  
   - Political Editor
• Kieran Gilbert - Reporter
• Ashleigh Gillon - Reporter
• Laura Jayes - Reporter

Program Presenters

• Georgia Hawkins - Entertainment
• Paul Murray - Paul Murray Live
  Paul Murray Live
  Paul Murray Live is an Australian nightly television current affairs and commentary program, shown on Sky News Australia and hosted by broadcaster Paul Murray...
  
  
• Mia Freedman
  Mia Freedman
  Mia Freedman is an journalist, columnist, author, blogger and media consultant.-Early life:Freedman was born to Kathy, a psychologist and art gallery owner, and Laurence Freedman, who worked in finance and currently heads The Freedman Foundation. Her father came to Australia to flee the apartheid...
  
   - Mamamia
• Peter Van Onselen - The Showdown

Former Presenters

• Tina Altieri
• Georgie Gardner
  Georgie Gardner
  Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
  
  
• John Gatfield
• John Mangos
  John Mangos
  John is an Australian news presenter.He is also a host on talk back radio station 2UE and a regular on Sunrise on the Seven Network. He has also made cameo appearances on the Australian comedy programs Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers....
  
  
• Samantha Armytage
  Samantha Armytage
  Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
  
  
• Amber Sherlock
• Christine Kinninmonth
• David Koch
• Prue Lewarne
  Prue Lewarne
  Prue Lewarne is an international news anchor.Lewarne served as an anchor for CNN International 1997 - 1999, Deutsche Welle, CNBC Europe 2001-2003, Bloomberg Television and Sky News Australia....
  
  
• Garry Wilkinson
• Melanie McLaughlin
• Kelly Nestor
  Kelly Nestor (journalist)
  Kelly Nestor is an Australian television news presenter and she is currently working for The Advertiser.- Biography :Nestor was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales, but made her name as a news presenter in Adelaide....
  
  
• Juanita Phillips
  Juanita Phillips
  Juanita Phillips , is an Australian journalist and news presenter, currently working for the ABC as main weeknight presenter for the New South Wales edition of ABC News at 7pm and evening presenter for ABC News 24 bulletins....
  
  
• Murray Shaw
• Karen Tso
  Karen Tso
  Karen Tso is an Australian television journalist and anchor at CNBC Asia.Tso began her career as a general news reporter for the AAP after graduating with a commerce degree from Griffith University in Queensland. She also studied for a Masters In Journalism at both the University of Westminster in...
  
  
• Roz Kelly
• Nicole Webb
• Richard Gonclaves
• Craig Norenbergs

Current Programming

• First Edition, between 5:30am - 9:30am.
• First Business
• News Day, between 10am - 4:15pm.
• News Night, between 10pm - 1:30am.
• Market Day
• Sky National News, from 5pm - 8pm.
• Sky Business Report
• Health Report
• Sportsline, 9:30am and 10:30pm.
• AM, Lunchtime, PM and Late Agenda, 8:30am, 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 8pm (Mondays)
• Saturday Agenda, 8:30am.
• Australian Agenda, 8:30am
• Sky News Sunday Business
• Question Time
• Sky News Eco Report
• Book Report
• Paul Murray Live
  Paul Murray Live
  Paul Murray Live is an Australian nightly television current affairs and commentary program, shown on Sky News Australia and hosted by broadcaster Paul Murray...
  
  , 9pm Monday-Friday
• The Melbourne Report
• The Punch
• Playing Politics
• The Nation with David Speers
  David Speers
  David Speers is an Australian journalist and the political editor at Sky News Australia. He worked with the Macquarie Radio Network, including the station 2GB, and the Southern Cross radio network, including stations 2UE and 3AW, before joining Sky in 2000. He has been a member of the National...
  
  , 8pm Thursdays
• The Contrarians, 8pm Fridays
• Mamamia, 8pm Tuesdays, 9:15pm Fridays.
• The Showdown with Peter Van Onselen, 8pm Tuesdays

Other Programming

• Sky News UK
  Sky News
  Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
  
  (Overnight simulcasts)
• ABC World News
  World News with Charles Gibson
  ABC World News is the flagship daily evening program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. Currently, the weekday editions are anchored by Diane Sawyer and the weekend editions are anchored by David Muir. The program has been...
  
  (ABC (US
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  ))
• Nightline (ABC (US
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  ))
• CBS Evening News
  CBS Evening News
  CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
  
  (CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  )
• New Zealand News Week
  Sky News New Zealand
  Sky News New Zealand is a simulcast of Sky News Australia however carries the NZ branding, and appears on SKY Television. The programming is nearly identical to Sky News Australia, except for a nightly bulletin, plus a twice weekly afternoon one, being produced in New Zealand.- History :In the late...
  
  
• Prime News

Bureaux

• Sydney (Opened 15 November 2009)
• Melbourne (Moved from Nine Network
  Nine Network
  The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
  
   to Herald Sun
  Herald Sun
  The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...
  
   offices on 15 November 2009)
• Canberra
• Brisbane (Opened 15 November 2009, Courier Mail
  The Courier-Mail
  The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's...
  
   offices)
• Perth (Opened 15 November 2009, PerthNow offices)
• Adelaide (Opened 15 November 2009, AdelaideNow offices)
• Auckland, New Zealand (Sky News New Zealand Headquarters)

Awards

2007

ASTRA AWARD: most outstanding performance by a presenter: David Spears (agenda) - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Creative Use of Technology: Anytime, Anywhere - Nominated

2008

ASTRA AWARD: Most outstanding performance by a presenter: David Spears (agenda) - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: Kieren Gilbert - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: Mike Willesee - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Most outstanding performance by a presenter: Helen Dalley (Sunday business) - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Channel of the year - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Male Personality: James Bracey - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Male Personality: David Spears - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Female Personality: Helen Dally - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Female Personality: Brooke Forster - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage- APEC 2007 -Winner

2009

LOGIE AWARD: Most outstanding news Coverage - Global Financial Crisis – Sky News Business - Nominated -

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage - Global Financial Crisis – Sky News Business - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: David Speers – Sky News Australia - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Favourite Male Personality: Kieran Gilbert – Sky News Australia - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage -Global financial crisis - Sky news Business - Nominated

Widescreen

Sky News began Widescreen broadcasting along with sister channels Sky News Business Channel and A-PAC on Sunday, 17 May 2009.[3]

Corporate

Sky News Channel's parent company Australian News Channel Pty Ltd is owned by British Sky Broadcasting

British Sky Broadcasting

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....

, Seven Media Group and Nine Entertainment Co., each with a 33% stake in the company respectively.

Sky News Multiview

With the roll-out of Foxtel Digital

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

 and Austar Digital

Austar

Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. Its main business activity is Subscription Television but it is also involved with internet access and mobile phones...

, Sky News Australia launched the Sky News Active interactive news service based on the Sky News UK service with the same name. The service offered a choice of eight news screens, some with original content not seen on the main channel they vary depending on the days news or events and include the latest news, business, sport, showbiz and weather in text. Other features included interactive polling and the latest news headlines via text. On 15 November 2009 Sky News active re-launched with a new look as well as 5 additional local screens (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide

Sky News Now

Sky News Now is a mobile service available on Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

, Telstra

Telstra

Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services....

 and 3 Mobile. It offers a wide variety of news in both video and text. Sky News also provides Mobile TV channels on the Mobile Foxtel service.

Sky News Alerts

Sky News Alerts is a SMS

SMS

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 and MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service

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 breaking news service available on all mobile phones inside Australia. Breaking news alerts are sent to a subscriber via SMS or MMS at a cost per message.

Podcasting

Sky News offers various programs via podcast including First Business, Market Day, Sky Business Report, Showbiz, Agenda, Sky News Eco Report, Australian News Week, Sky News Sunday Business and Prime News

Prime Television

PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...

 New Zealand.

External links

• Sky News Channel on YouTube
  YouTube
  YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....