The Sky Report
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The Sky Report was a 60-minute newscast shown every weekday evening on Sky News
at 7 pm (GMT). The programme was hosted by long-standing Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham
, and showcased in-depth reports and analysis of the day's top news stories (generally emphasising "hard" news), often devoting significant time to reporting events given little or no coverage on the channel's daytime rolling-news shows.
In February 2006, Anna Botting
took over as regular host while Etchingham was on maternity leave. Other stand-in presenters for the show included Colin Brazier
, Martin Stanford
and Jeremy Thompson
.
The Sky Report premiered on the evening of 24 October 2005, as part of a major revamp of the channel, but was axed on July 10, 2006, as part of a minor reshuffle of the channels schedules.
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...
at 7 pm (GMT). The programme was hosted by long-standing Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham
Julie Etchingham
Julie Etchingham is an English television newsreader and journalist. She is currently co-presenter of ITV News at Ten and is the presenter of the current affairs programme Tonight, having replaced Sir Trevor McDonald....
, and showcased in-depth reports and analysis of the day's top news stories (generally emphasising "hard" news), often devoting significant time to reporting events given little or no coverage on the channel's daytime rolling-news shows.
In February 2006, Anna Botting
Anna Botting
Anna Elizabeth Botting is a British news anchor with Sky News, a broadcasting network based in the United Kingdom. She currently presents Sky News at Ten, Sky News at Eleven and Sky Midnight News from Monday to Thursday...
took over as regular host while Etchingham was on maternity leave. Other stand-in presenters for the show included Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier is a news presenter for Sky News, who currently presents The Live Desk. Prior to this, he fronted Sky News Today's afternoon shift between 2:00pm and 5:00pm.-Biography:...
, Martin Stanford
Martin Stanford
Martin Stanford is a news anchor at Sky News who currently presents SkyNews.Com. Stanford had his own interactive show on the channel, Sky News with Martin Stanford from July 2006 to February 2007...
and Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy Gordon Thompson is a presenter on Sky News, regularly presenting Live at Five weeknights at 5pm.-Broadcasting career:Thompson was educated at King's School Worcester and was a contemporary of Chris Tarrant. Thompson is frequently Sky News' leading anchor on major stories, often presenting...
.
The Sky Report premiered on the evening of 24 October 2005, as part of a major revamp of the channel, but was axed on July 10, 2006, as part of a minor reshuffle of the channels schedules.