Sky News Australia
| Sky News Australia | |
|---|---|
 Sky News Australia Logo | |
| Launched | 19 February 1996[1] |
| Owned by |
Australian News Channel Pty Ltd - Sky plc 33%, Seven Media Group 33%, Nine Entertainment Company 33% |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9) |
| Audience share | 0.4% (January 2015, OzTam[2]) |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Sister channel(s) |
Sky News Business Channel Sky News Weather Channel A-PAC |
| Website | www.skynews.com.au |
Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Foxtel | Channel 601 |
| Sky Television (New Zealand) | Channel 85 |
| Cable | |
| Channel 601 | |
| Optus | Channel 601 |
| Neighbourhood Cable | Channel 21 |
| Vodafone (New Zealand) | Channel 85 |
| IPTV | |
| Xbox 360 | Channel 601 |
Sky News Australia (branded on air as Sky News Live, and until 18 January 2015 as Sky News National) 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]
Corporate
Sky News Channel's parent company, Australian News Channel Pty Ltd, is owned equally by British Sky Broadcasting, Seven Media Group and Nine Entertainment Co., each with a 33% stake in the company. The carriage deal between Australian News Channel and Foxtel is due to expire in February 2017.[5]
In 2013, Sky News Australia was granted $20 million in funding from it's parent company to be used over three years.[6]
On 26 February 2015 it was reported that News Corp Australia launched a $25 million bid for full ownership of Australian News Channel.[7]
Programming
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 Australia increased it's primetime programming offerings, particularly it's political themed shows, significantly in 2013, ahead of the 2013 federal election, moving away from rolling news or formal news bulletins in primetime.[6] Sky News Australia rebranded on 19 January 2015 as "Sky News Live", dropping the "Sky News National" branding.[8]
On weekdays, throughout most of the day, rolling news coverage is presented from one of Sky News Australia's studios. From 4pm (AEST/AEDT), commentary programs begin, and continue through primetime until 11pm AEST/AEDT. Most of these programs are presesented by 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 after midnight.
Current programs broadcast by Sky News Australia
- Agenda (AM • Lunchtime • PM • Saturday • Australian)
- First Edition
- Hinch Live
- Keneally and Cameron (on hiatus)[9]
- Paul Murray Live
- PVO Newshour
- Reporting Live
- Richo
- Richo + Jones
- ShowBiz
- SportsNight with James Bracey
- The Cabinet (airs sporadically as a fill-in program)
- The Dalley Edition
- The Friday Show (replacement for Keneally and Cameron from 10 April 2015)[10]
- The Nation with David Speers
- Viewpoint
Former programs broadcast by Sky News Australia
- Hadley! (cancelled after a 4 episode run in 2010)
- 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)
Upcoming program
- Untitled daytime program hosted by Kristina Keneally[11]
Notable presenters
Newsreaders
- Susanne Latimore
- Tracey Spicer
- Jacinta Tynan
- Tim Webster
- Ahron Young — substitute host, also Melbourne bureau chief
Program presenters
- Helen Dalley — The Dalley Edition
- Stan Grant — Reporting Live
- Derryn Hinch — Hinch Live
- Alan Jones — Richo + Jones
- Chris Kenny — Viewpoint
- Paul Murray — Paul Murray Live
- Graham Richardson — Richo, Richo + Jones
- David Speers — PM Agenda, The Nation with David Speers
- Peter van Onselen — PVO NewsHour
Former presenters
- Samantha Armytage
- Georgie Gardner
- Leigh Hatcher
- David Koch
- Prue Lewarne
- John Mangos
- Melanie McLaughlin
- Kelly Nestor
- Juanita Phillips
- Chris Roe
- Amber Sherlock
- Karen Tso
- Terry Willesee
- Michael Willesee, Jr.
Bureaus
Sky News Australia has a bureau in every capital city in Australia, completing this with the opening of it's Hobart studio in 2013.[6] The base of Sky News Australia is in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park, where the majority of it's news and programming is broadcast from. It's Melbourne studio was upgraded in 2014, allowing it to be used as a secondary broadcast studio.[12] Hinch Live became the first regular program to be broadcast from Melbourne.[13]
Internationally, Sky News has a bureau in Auckland, New Zealand which broadcasts Sky News NZ.[14]
Resources
Apart from its own resources, Sky News Australia uses the news resources of it's 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 1 January 2011, and additionally has agreememnts with CCTV China, ABC America, CBS, Reuters, APTN, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and TV3 New Zealand.[15]
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.[16]
On December 15, 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.[17] 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%).[18]
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.[19] 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.[20]
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 | 2015 ASTRA Awards[21] | 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 | |||
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.[22]
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[23]
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.[24] 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.[25]
Podcasting
Sky News offers various programs via podcast including First Business, Market Day, Showbiz, Agenda, Australian News Week, and Prime News New Zealand.
See also
- Sky News
- Sky News New Zealand
- Sky News Business Channel
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 About Sky News
- ↑
- ↑ "News on the Hour". Illawarra Mercury (Illawarra, Australia: Fairfax Media). 17 March 2000. p. 55. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
- ↑
- ↑ Davidson, Darren (26 February 2015). "$25m Sky bid not fair value: Gyngell". Business Spectator. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Davidson, Darren (28 January 2013). "Sky widens coverage as investors rain cash". The Australian. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ Christensen, Nic (26 February 2015). "Reports News Corp Australia to launch $25m bid for Sky Channels". Mumbrella. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ↑ "SKY NEWS LIVE and ready in 2015". 20 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/rosscameron4/status/586392756290879489
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KKeneally/status/586352998307082241
- ↑ Markson, Sharri (13 April 2015). "Pollie combo axed". The Australian. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ "Sky News updates Melbourne bureau". NewsCastStudio. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Derryn Hinch to host new Hinch Live talk current affairs show on Sky News". Herald Sun. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Sky News NZ Evening News to launch Monday 12 March 2007". Throng NZ. 9 March 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Sky News Australia Partners With CNN International". 11 October 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Nine maroons Seven with Origin and leadership double". Sydney Morning Herald. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ Knox, David. "Ratings: Monday 15 December 2014". TV Tonight. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ↑ Knox, David (December 17, 2014). "Martin Place siege: ABC / SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ↑ "SatTV". Mediaweek. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
...News24 metro 195k ... SkyNews late 83k early 56k.
- ↑ "Mon STV". Mediaweek. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
Mon STV @SkyNewsAust #2 channel Leadership crisis 9-10am #3 program 69k
- ↑ Byrnes, Holly (13 March 2015). "ASTRA Awards 2015: Wentworth, Sky News among winners". News Corp Australia. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ http://www.ai-media.tv/sky-news-launches-live-captions/
- ↑ Sinclair, Lara (5 October 2009). "Stock Quotes". The Australian.
- ↑ Sky News Alerts
- ↑ 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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