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This article is about the Australian channel. For the British channel known in Australia as Sky News UK, see Sky News. For the pan-Arab channel, see Sky News Arabia. For the defunct Irish channel, see Sky News Ireland.

Sky News Australia
CountryAustralia
Broadcast areaOceania
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format576i (SDTV 16:9)
1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
OwnerAustralian News Channel
(News Corp Australia)
Sister channelsSky News Weather Channel
Sky News Extra
History
Launched19 February 1996[1]
Links
Websiteskynews.com.au
Availability
Terrestrial
WIN Television (as Sky News on WIN)Channel 83
Channel 53 (Northern NSW)
Streaming media
Australia ChannelWatch live
Sky Go (NZ)skygo.co.nz

Sky News Australia is an Australian right-wing 24 hour cable and satellite channel available on the Foxtel and Optus Television subscription platforms and on free-to-air television in regional and non-metropolitan areas throughout Australia. It is also available in New Zealand on Sky Television and Vodafone.[1] As well as being a general news channel, Sky News Australia promotes conservative political views, ideologies and policies. The platform is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia.

Sky News Australia launched at 5 pm[3] on 19 February 1996, as the first Australian-produced television news channel. The channel aired its 50,000th unique newscast on 23 April 1996 at 11 am.[4] Sky News was added to Austar on 1 April 2000.[5] In 2004, Sky News began broadcasting Sky News Active, its on-demand interactive TV news service.[1] In 2008, Sky News launched the Sky News Business Channel, and on 20 January 2009, Sky News launched Australian Public Affairs Channel (A-PAC). It began widescreen broadcasting on 17 May 2009.[6] Sky News Australia began broadcasting in high definition on 1 December 2015.[7][8] A fourth spin-off channel, Sky News Election Channel, was launched on 1 May 2016.[9] In July 2017, Sky News became provider of Fox Sports News with a mix of presenters and reporters from both organisations combining for 20 hours of live content per day on channel 500; sports updates on Sky News programs are introduced as "Fox Sports News Updates".

In May 2018, Sky News Live moved to channel 600 and added a simulcast on channel 103, while its multiview service closed and moved some of its overflow channels to an online portal. The flagship British Sky News channel also launched on Foxtel as Sky News UK, and A-PAC rebranded as Sky News Extra.[10]

In mid-2019, the channel began expanding its digital operations.[11] This included a content partnership with YouTube, Microsoft News, Facebook and Taboola.[12] That led to new, opinion-focused videos being uploaded more frequently and across News Corp platforms, after having previously not uploaded any videos from February 2017 to April 2019.[11] As a result, its YouTube subscriptions increased over ten-fold from 70,000 to 900,000, with more than 500,000,000 total views (the highest for any Australian news outlet).[11] On Facebook, it had 5.69 million interactions in October 2020, with the total for all Australian broadcasting television pages being 16.06 million, and with 890,000 shares compared to a total of 1,600,000.

Corporate history

Main article: Australian News Channel
Australian News Channel Pty Ltd logo

Sky News Channel's parent company, Australian News Channel (ANC), was owned equally by British Sky Broadcasting (now Sky Limited; which is now a division of Comcast), Seven Media Group and Nine Entertainment Co., each with a 33% stake in the company from its founding until December 2016, when it was acquired by News Corp Australia.[13]

In 2013, Sky News Australia was granted A$20 million in funding from its parent company to be used over three years.[14]

Until 2015, Sky News was responsible for producing New Zealand's Prime News - First at 5:30 from Sydney, hosted by Eric Young with filming taking place in Prime's Albany studios. It lost the contract to MediaWorks and subsequently ceased broadcasting a local New Zealand bulletin.[15]

In February 2018, Sky News Australia launched a digital-first brand and content platform called 2600. The online political newsletter is sent out daily with breaking news from Canberra.[16]

Programming

See also: List of programs broadcast by Sky News Live

Sky News programming consists of a mix of live news bulletins, live broadcasts from events (such as Parliament Question Time and selected press conferences), original commentary panel programs and simulcasts of international sister station Sky News UK. Sky News has broadcast every sitting of Question time from the House of Representatives since its launch in 1996.[17]

Sky News Australia increased its primetime programming offerings, particularly its political themed shows, significantly in 2013, when it made more obvious its right leaning ideology, ahead of the 2013 federal election, canceling almost entirely the slot's rolling news block News Night.[14] It would then regain most of its runtime in 2014. Sky News Australia rebranded on 19 January 2015 as "Sky News Live", dropping the "Sky News National" branding.[18]

On weekdays, throughout most of the day, rolling news coverage is presented from one of Sky News Australia's studios. From 5pm (AEST/AEDT), commentary programs begin, and continue through primetime until 11pm AEST/AEDT. Most of these programs are presesented by conservative commentators discussing the news of the day, often with a panel of other commentators, and feature a news update at the beginning of the program (and sometimes further updates during the program). Rolling news continues from 11pm AEST/AEDT before coverage switches to an overnight simulcast of Sky News UK at 1am AEST/AEDT.

In 2007, Sky News aired local breakaway programming for New Zealand viewers in primetime, filmed at Prime NZ's Auckland studios. One of these programs, Prime News - First at 5:30, was also simulcast to Australian viewers.[19] The debut of Sky News NZ Evening News was watched by just 1,500 viewers and panned by critics.[20] As of 2015, no local New Zealand programs are produced or broadcast following the loss of a production contract with Prime NZ.[15] However the channel debuted New Zealand Agenda on 16 June 2018, hosted by New Zealand bureau chief James O'Doherty from Wellington, New Zealand, focusing on NZ politics.[21]

Current programs

Presenters and reporters

Sky News Australia outside broadcast equipment.
Kieran Gilbert, reporting from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

News presenters

Program presenters

Reporters

  • Charlotte Mortlock and Danica De Giorgio - Sydney
  • Andrea Crothers, Gabriella Power and Patrick Murrell - Melbourne
  • Trudy McIntosh and Eliza Edwards - Canberra
  • Brendan Smith and Anna Rawlings - Brisbane
  • Emily Burley - Adelaide
  • Julia Bradley - Gold Coast
  • Matt Cunningham - Darwin
  • Emily Evans - Perth
  • Jackson Williams - Wellington, NZ.

Contributors

Former presenters and reporters

Bureaus

Sky News Sydney City studio in Martin Place
Sky News Melbourne bureau is within the Foxtel headquarters in Southbank, Victoria.

Sky News Australia has a bureau in every capital city in Australia, completing this with the opening of its Hobart studio in 2013.[14] In 2016, it opened a bureau in Cairns, making it the first non-capital city bureau.[38] In 2017, a Gold Coast bureau was opened marking the third non-capital city studio after Cairns and Geelong.[39]

The base of Sky News Australia is in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park, from which the majority of its news and programming is broadcast. Its Melbourne studio was upgraded in 2014, allowing it to be used as a secondary broadcast studio.[40] Hinch Live became the first regular program to be broadcast from Melbourne.[41] Ahron Young is the Melbourne Bureau Chief.[42]

The third major bureau is in Parliament House, Canberra, opened in 2000.[17] Lyndal Curtis became Bureau Chief of in October 2015.[43] Additionally, Sky News has a small office in the Channel Seven building in Martin Place, which includes a small street-level single camera studio which looks onto Elizabeth Street, Sydney.[44]

Internationally, Sky News's only foreign bureau is in Wellington, New Zealand, opened in 2015.[45][46]

Resources

Apart from its own resources, Sky News Australia uses the news resources of its former parent companies Seven News, Nine News and Sky News UK, as well as sister network Fox News Channel. It signed a four-year partnership deal with CNN International, commencing on 1 January 2011, and additionally has agreements with CCTV China, ABC America, CBS, Reuters, APTN, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and Newshub.[47] Sky News UK, ABC and CBS were founding international partners of Sky News Australia.[48]

Reception

Ratings

The highest rating broadcast on Sky News Australia was an episode of Paul Murray Live on 26 June 2013 (following the 2013 Labor leadership spill), averaging 197,000 viewers across a special two-hour broadcast. The highest audience share Sky News Australia has achieved was during coverage of the 2009 Victorian bushfires.[49]

On 15 December 2014 during the Sydney Lindt cafe siege, coverage of the unfolding incident took 16 of the 20 most watched programs on the Foxtel platform. The 7pm (AEST) hour was the highest rated at 109,000 viewers.[50] Sky News achieved a day time share of 2.6% (behind ABC News 24's 3.8%) and a primetime share of 1.5% (behind ABC News 24's 2.5%).[51]

Sky News Live rated 56,000 viewers for early evening coverage of the 2015 Queensland state election, and 83,000 viewers for later coverage, beaten by ABC News 24's coverage which was watched by 195,000 viewers nationally.[52] For its coverage of the failed Liberal leadership spill on 9 February 2015 between 9am and 10am, Sky News Live was the second most watched subscription channel and the coverage was the third most watched program of the day with 69,000 viewers.[53]

Sky News Live reached a total audience of 700,000 viewers on 14 September 2015 (including simulcast on Sky News Business) during the 2015 Liberal leadership spill. It was the most watched subscription television channel for the evening and outrated all free-to-air television channels between 11pm and midnight AEST.[54] The highest rated hour of coverage was from 10pm, achieving 190,000 viewers, the second highest ratings since the 2013 Labor Party spill.[55][56]

A March 2016 article in The Guardian Australia reported Sky News averages 12,000 national viewers between 6pm and midnight, with a peak of 18,000 between 8pm and 10pm, although the report did not specify what days or dates this average refers to.[57]

During the 2016 federal election, Sky News averaged 96,000 viewers, an increase of 46% from the 2013 election.[58]

In July 2018, Sky News claimed to have achieved its highest ratings on record, with viewership up 9% overall and its weeknight primetime (6pm-11pm) viewership 25% higher on the same period last year, according to OzTAM figures.[59][60]

In August 2018, coverage of the Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 2018 saw Sky News gain its highest Tuesday primetime audience ever with a 4.2% audience share. Speers, Credlin and Jones & Co all had their highest-rated episodes on record.[61]

Criticism, controversies and political bias

Sky News Australia has been described by rival media as having a conservative and anti-Labour stance.[62][63] In 2017, Denis Muller, a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advancing Journalism, described the channel as having a "split personality," running straight news bulletins and reporting during the day with professional and independent journalists and presenters, while moving towards "right-leaning punditry" in prime time.[64] Drawing a strong comparison to Fox News, the network began moving towards panel-based programming from 2010, with most of its highest profile prime time commentators conservative.[65][66] Hosts Andrew Bolt and Paul Murray have been compared to Fox News presenters Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity respectively.[64] Academics note Sky News also featuring "centre-left" commentators and "respected independent journalists" as a key distinction to Fox News.[64] However, since the changes implemented in 2017, Sky News has not been nominated for any television or journalism awards, an area where it had historically performed well.[67]

In August 2018, Sky News was heavily criticised for providing a platform to Blair Cottrell, leader of the far-right, Neo-Nazi organisation United Patriots Front in a one-on-one discussion about immigration on The Adam Giles Show. Sky News presenters, including Laura Jayes and David Speers, were among those critical (both on-air and off-air) of his appearance on the program due to the fact that he has expressed admiration for Hitler and claimed to have manipulated women "using violence and terror."[68][69] Sky News commentator and former Labor Party minister Craig Emerson resigned in protest after the interview was broadcast, stating that "My father fought Nazis in WWII and was interred in a German POW camp", and that the decision to give Cottrell a platform on Sky News was "another step in a journey to normalising racism & bigotry in our country".[70] Activist groups called on advertisers to pull advertising campaigns off Sky News in the wake of the channel's interview with Cottrell.[71] During the fallout and criticism over the interview, Cottrell responded by tweeting about raping reporter Laura Jayes, saying via Twitter that "I might as well have raped @ljayes [Laura Jayes] on the air, not only would she have been happier with that but the reaction would’ve been the same." Jayes responded by stating that Cottrell is "not just a fascist. He’s down right dangerous".[72]

The channel is a strong critic of the Australian Labor Party, often publishing editorials which condemn their actions whilst simultaneously promoting and endorsing the policies of the Liberal and National parties of Australia. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Western Australian premier Mark McGowan are often strongly ridiculed and opposed by the channel. Since the beginning of Daniel Andrews' term as premier in 2014, reporters at Sky have often referred to him as a 'Dictator'[73] and a 'Chairman',[74] drawing a humorous comparison to socialist and communist regimes.

In November 2018, Sky News terminated the contract of former Liberal Party MP and late-night presenter Ross Cameron for using racist language to describe Chinese people.[75]

In the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, Sky News Australia was temporarily removed from Sky New Zealand's satellite platform, amid concerns over how the channel's coverage could potentially affect the investigation into the attack; Fox Sports News was added to the platform as a replacement.[76][77] Sky News Australia was restored to Sky New Zealand on 21 March, six days after the attack.[78]

Accolades

List of accolades
Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
2007 2007 ASTRA Awards Most outstanding performance by a presenter David Speers Won
Most Creative Use of Technology Anytime, Anywhere Nominated
2008 Logie Awards of 2008 Most Outstanding News Coverage Federal Election Nominated
2008 ASTRA Awards Most outstanding performance by a presenter David Speers Won
Most outstanding performance by a broadcast journalist Kieran Gilbert Won
Mike Willesee Nominated
Most outstanding performance by a presenter Hellen Dalley Nominated
Channel of the year Sky News Australia Nominated
Favourite male personality James Bracey Nominated
David Speers Nominated
Favourite female personality Helen Dalley Nominated
Brooke Corte Nominated
Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage APEC 2007 Won
2009 2009 ASTRA Awards Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist David Speers Won
Favourite male personality Kieran Gilbert Nominated
2010 Logie Awards of 2010 Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report Liberal Leadership Meltdown Nominated
2010 ASTRA Awards Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist Kieran Gilbert Won
2011 Logie Awards of 2011 Most Outstanding News Coverage Election 2010 Nominated
2011 ASTRA Awards Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist Ashleigh Gillon Won
Most Outstanding Performance by a Presenter David Speers Won
Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage Election 2010 Won
2012 Logie Awards of 2012 Most Outstanding News Coverage Qantas Grounded Nominated
2012 ASTRA Awards Most Outstanding Performance by a Presenter David Speers Won
2013 Logie Awards of 2013 Most Outstanding News Coverage Rudd Vs Gillard Leadership Challenge Nominated
2013 ASTRA Awards Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist Ahron Young Won
Favourite personality - male Paul Murray Nominated
Favourite Programme Australian Paul Murray Live Nominated
2014 Logie Awards of 2014 Most Outstanding News Coverage Leadership Spill Nominated
2014 ASTRA Awards Channel of the year Sky News National Nominated
Favourite personality - male Paul Murray Nominated
Favourite personality - female Laura Jayes Nominated
Favourite program: Australian Paul Murray Live Nominated
Most Outstanding News Program Election 2013 coverage Won
Paul Murray Live Nominated
Most Outstanding performance by a broadcast journalist Kieran Gilbert Nominated
Ahron Young Nominated
Daniel Bourchier Nominated
David Speers Won
2015 Logie Awards of 2015 Most Outstanding News Coverage What Is Metadata? Nominated
2015 ASTRA Awards[79] Channel of the year Sky News National Won
Most Outstanding Presenter – Male Paul Murray Won
Most Outstanding Presenter – Female Nina Stevens Nominated
Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist David Speers Won
Kieran Gilbert Nominated
Celina Edmonds Nominated
Ahron Young Nominated
Most Outstanding News Program Paul Murray Live Won
PM Agenda Nominated
Richo + Jones Nominated
2016 Logie Awards of 2016 Most Outstanding News Coverage[80] Liberal Leadership Crisis: Abbott V Turnbull Nominated
ASTRA Industry Awards Most Outstanding Innovation (use of technology)[81] LiveU SmartGRIP Nominated
Walkley Awards Coverage of a Major News Event or Issue[82] 2016 Election coverage Won
6th AACTA Awards Subscription Television Award For Best Live Event Production[83] 2016 Election Coverage Nominated
Subscription Television Award For Best Male Presenter[83] David Speers Nominated
2017 Logie Awards of 2017 Most Outstanding News Coverage[84] 2016 Election coverage Won

Broadcast

Sky News began broadcasting in widescreen, along with its sister channels on 17 May 2009. Sky News Australia only provides closed captioning between 4pm and 5pm (AEST/AEDT) each day.[85]

Sky News began broadcasting in high definition on 1 December 2015.[7]

Other services

Sky News Multiview

With the roll-out of Foxtel Digital, 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[86]

Sky News Now

Sky News Now was a mobile service available on Vodafone, Telstra and 3. It offered a wide variety of news in both video and text.[87] As of 2015, the service was no longer available.

Sky News Alerts

Sky News Alerts is a SMS and MMS breaking news service available on all mobile phones inside Australia.[88] Breaking news alerts are sent to a subscriber via SMS or MMS at a cost per message.[89]

Qantas

In November 2014, Sky News Australia was contracted to provide Qantas with in-flight news bulletins replacing a longstanding contract with the Nine Network.[90]

Podcasting

Sky News offers various programs via podcast including First Business, Market Day, Showbiz, Agenda, Australian News Week, and Prime News New Zealand.

Sky News on WIN

Sky News on WIN is a free-to-air 24-hour hybrid general and sports news channel that was launched on 2 September 2018.[91] The channel features shared news programming from both WIN Television and Sky News Australia, while regional WIN News content will also be broadcast on Sky News Australia. A large part of the schedule, though, is a simulcast of Fox Sports News' programs, including Sports First, Sports Saturday, Sports Sunday and Extra Time. The channel is available on digital channel 83 across WIN's regional markets in Regional QLD, Southern NSW & ACT, Griffith, Regional VIC, Mildura, Tasmania, Eastern SA and Regional WA, and digital channel 53 in Northern NSW & Gold Coast.[92]

In its first two weeks, the channel averaged 10,000 viewers in primetime and 4,000 viewers in daytime, with Richo the highest rated program at 24,000 viewers.[93]

The specifically produced morning news program Headline News is also simulcast nationally on Sky News Weather and regionally on WIN's main channel.

Sky News's contract with WIN expires in August 2021 as the latter had sealed a deal with Nine Entertainment Co., which was announced on 12 March 2021 and goes into effect on 1 July.[94]


See also

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