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Key facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Broadcast area
- Worldwide
- Headquarters
- Sky Central , Osterley , London
- Language
- English
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV
- Owner
- Comcast
- Parent
- Sky Group
- Key people
- David Rhodes (Head of Sky News Group) Jonathan Levy (Managing Director and Executive Editor, Sky News UK) Sarah Whitehead (Director of Newsgathering and Operations)
- Sister channels
- List of Sky UK channels
- Launched
- 5 February 1989 ; 37 years ago ( 1989-02-05 )
- Webcast
- Live Stream Official YouTube Channel
- Website
- news.sky.com
- Freeview
- Channel 233
- Ee tv
- Channel 233; Channel 313; Channel 385 (HD)
- Saorview ireland
- Channel 23
- Services united states
- Samsung TV Plus , Pluto TV
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel, live stream news network, and news organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. In 2024, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the 17th time it has held the award and the channel's 7th consecutive win. The channel and its live streaming world news are available on its website, television platforms, and online platforms such as YouTube and Apple TV, and various mobile devices and digital media players.
A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation. A channel called Sky News International, simulcasting the UK channel directly but without British advertisements, is available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the Americas. Narrated segments (which generally cover lighter issues unrelated to current news stories) are played in place of advertisements, and international weather forecasts are also given at the end of each half-hour newscast. Sponsored advertisements are still broadcast before and/or after the sports news and weather segments. Sky News Radio provides national and international news to commercial radio and community radio stations in the UK and other English-language stations around the world. Sky News also provides content to Yahoo! News.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sky News” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.