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Sky News Australia
LandAustralien
Programmierung
Language(s)Englisch
Ownership
OwnerAustralian News Channel Pty Ltd - BSkyB 33%,
Seven Media Group 33%,
Nine Entertainment Company 33%

Sky News Australia is an Australian 24-hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms. It is also available in New Zealand on Sky Television and Vodafone [1]

Sky News Australia launched on 19 February 1996, as the first Australian-produced television news channel. Sky News was added to Austar on 1 April 2000.[3] In 1994, 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.[4]

Presenters

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

News

Weekdays

Sports

Canberra Bureaux

Substitute presenters

Former presenters

Programs

Former programs

  • Showdown (replaced by Richo + Jones on Tuesday nights in 2014)
  • The Contrarians (replaced by Keneally and Cameron on 12 September 2014)
  • Friday Live (cancelled; final episode on 12 December 2014)

Bureaus

Major bureaus

Minor bureaus (within Australia)

Foreign bureaus

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 Corte (née 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

2010

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

2011

  • ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist – Ashleigh Gillon - Winner
  • ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Presenter – David Speers - Winner
  • ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage – Election 2010 - Winner

2012

  • ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Presenter David Speers - Winner

2013

  • ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist – Ahron Young
  • ASTRA AWARD: Favourite Personality Male - Paul Murray - Nominated (winners not announced at time of this update)
  • ASTRA AWARD: Favourite Programme Australian - Paul Murray Live - Nominated (winners not announced at time of this update)

Widescreen

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

Corporate

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Australian News Channel Pty Ltd logo

Sky News Channel's parent company Australian News Channel Pty Ltd is owned by British Sky Broadcasting, Seven Media Group and Nine Entertainment Co., each with a 33% stake in the company respectively.

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[5]

Sky News Now

Sky News Now is a mobile service available on Vodafone, Telstra and 3. 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 and MMS breaking news service available on all mobile phones inside Australia.[6] Breaking news alerts are sent to a subscriber via SMS or MMS at a cost per message.

Qantas

In November 2014, Sky News Australia was appointed as a provider for Qantas in-flight news bulletins replacing a longstanding contract with the Nine Network.[7]

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 Business Channel

Main article: Sky News Business Channel

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c About Sky News
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "News on the Hour". Illawarra Mercury. Illawarra, Australia: Fairfax Media. 17 March 2000. p. 55. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ Sinclair, Lara (5 October 2009). "Stock Quotes". The Australian.
  6. ^ Sky News Alerts
  7. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/qantas-takes-sky-news-to-the-air-in-overhaul-of-its-inflight-entertainment-20140723-zvy3b.html

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