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“But the best justification for the licence fee is that people turn to the BBC for serious news. When the BBC didn’t provide it on Thursday night we switched to Sky, which put the BBC to shame with the simple strategy of treating the audience with respect.” Nick Cohen, Evening Standard, 07.06.08
“In order to get up to date results I decamped to my local pub and watched it on Sky news. There was no sound, but then there was no Jeremy Vine making a spectacle of himself. What there was in the bottom right hand corner of the screen was up to date results which were missing from the BBC.”
“I had to watch Sky news at the pub for the mayoral result, as they seemed to be following it whilst the BBC was not. Incredible.” Benedict White, Conservative’s blogs online, 03.06.08
"....Naturally GMTV. However, I obviously keep in touch with the opposition - especially Sky News, who remain brilliant news reactors.I remain a great fan of Parky. I have a huge admiration for Jon Snow, Sky's Jeremy Thompson and ITV's Julie Etchingham." John Stappleton, Independent Media Weekly, 21.04.08
"I am one of those really irritating people that has a TV on in every room, on BBC or Sky News..." - Amanda Platell, Independent Media Weekly, 07.04.08
"I did view 'live breaking news' television coverage on Sky News (news of which I could not receive through BBC24 until 2.17am, about one hour and 20 minutes after the event). How else could I have known what was happening?" - Nick Pearson, Yorkshire Evening Post, 25.03.08
“I also work my way through my “favourites” list, reading every British National Newspaper, the BBC, Sky News, and return for updates during the day..” Fidelma Cook, The Herald, 22.03.08
(ITV's digital 24 hour News).... struggled to compete with BBC News 24 and Sky News, and had a short life' -The Times, 10.03.08
'Eamonn Holmes loves what he does for a living and that really rubs off on everyone else' Charlotte Hawkins, interviewed by Sophie Morris, The Independent 10.03.08
'It is important if you are doing radio to be up to date, and so I watch Sky News.....' -Tony Blackburn, interviewed by Sophie Morris, Independent 10.03.08
“I get The Sun, Mirror, Mail, Telegraph, Times and Independent delivered. I used to get The Guardian, but cancelled it in protest at the utterly brilliant Roger Alton getting turfed out of The Observer. I read them with Sky News on in the background…..” Piers Morgan, Independent Media Weekly 03.03.08
'Interviewed by Adam Boulton of Sky News, Branson talked about future fuel from algae.....' - Carol Lazar, The Star (South Africa), 26.02.08
"By the more intelligent media...... go to the Sky News blog" -Conservativehome.blogs.com 23.02.08
“I dare say, however, that if, like the Brits, the lobby had a "top British live act" award, Boulton of Sky News would win it every year.” –Bill Blanko, guardian.co.uk, 21.02.08
"Congratulations to Sky News for the forward thinking way in which it covered the minute's silence at Wembley in honour of the Munich victims......it's nice to know that even if Wembley cannot guarantee a minute's silence, at least television news can." - Giles Smith, The Times, 09.02.08
"Sky is always first with a story" -Joel Ross (Virgin Radio), Guardian 04.02.08
“Of all the sites I looked at, only Sky News still retained a bespoke 'Advanced search' form with features for refining search.” – Martin Belam’s online blog, 24.01.08
“Sky.com News TV (weeknights, 7.30pm),....... by no means as clunky as the title of the show....... is actually very watchable.” – Mersey Blogs, 22.01.08
"I don’t understand why in this multimedia world there are some who still cling to the idea of news by appointment. If I want news, I’ll simply switch to BBC News 24 or Sky News or EuroNews depending on my mood" – Guardian Blog 21.01.08
"Yet again Sky News demonstrated just how the internet should be used to break a story. At around 1.30pm today, January 15, Sky News’ Breaking News section stated that two anti-whaling activists were being held ‘hostage’ after boarding a Japanese ship. The story consisted of one grainy picture and less than two paragraphs of text. Most sites such as the BBC had, to the best of my knowledge, no reference to the story at all. Within just half an hour Sky had updated their story three times, adding more detail, colour, background information and pictures. A few hours later there was a full picture story. Being able to build on a story quickly like this is the biggest advantage of the internet – especially for a newspaper website. Broadcasters have always been able to use their mediums of television or radio to keep a story rolling, but newspapers have only ever been able to print the story as they knew it, up to the time of going to press. Now though they can compete for people’s interest in news via the web - they can develop a story just as quickly as anybody else. And Sky News show how this should be done". Christian Dunn, blogspot.com 15.01.08
"Dermot Murnaghan reckons he’s got his life back by switching from pre-dawn starts at BBC breakfast to the more civilised hours of Sky News Today". –Jane Bell, Belfast Telegraph 08.01.2008
‘Not only does he get to test himself in a new environment working for a broadcaster he has “always admired from afar”’ Ian Burrell on Dermot Murnaghan’s move to Sky News, Media Weekly, Independent 07.01.08
"...the Corporation's coverage of news lies at the centre of its public service remit. There are many things that commercial television does as well or better than the BBC: game shows, soap opera, reality television, police dramas and such like. But, apart possibly from Sky News, no commercial channel comes close to the BBC, now that ITV News has declined so spectacularly. This is partly because the BBC has greater resources than its rivals, and partly because, despite everything, the old public service ethos persists."- Stephen Glover, Daily Mail 18.10.07
"(Sky News) has stayed on course to strengthen its course outside the UK" Patrick Melville, Media Manager. MPG MM Pocket Guide September 2007
“The media, as a whole, has been warmly praised by the family of Madeleine McCann, and Sky has certainly been at the forefront of keeping the story at the top of the news agenda – on the hour, every hour.”
- Liverpool Echo 16.05.07
“I am also obsessed with Sky News: it’s invaluable and there are so many great features, like the interactive menu.”
-Sadie Frost, Grazia, 07.05.07
"Auntie will be looking over her shoulder at Sky's updated [web] offering. An image-heavy home page has one main story dominating the layout, while video stories are also pushed to the fore."- New Media Age, Site Inspection, 03.05.07
“Compare BBC News 24 and Sky News. While News 24 rarely breaks a story, Sky has about 10 crews out picking up events all day.
Crime correspondent Martin Brunt gets everywhere first, and the story delivery of Sky News editors Tim Marshall and Adam Boulton and anchor Jeremy Thompson is far superior to anything the BBC can offer.”
- Evening Standard, 26.04.07
"Nobody does breaking news like Sky."
- Mike Anderiesz, Guardian Arts Blog on Sky News' coverage of the Virginia Tech killings, 17.04.07
“It was not until late afternoon that news of the arrest began to leak. First with the story was Sky News which, at 3.53pm, flashed the words ‘Lord Levy arrested’ across its screens.”
- The Sunday Times, 16.07.06
“Sky’s news service for Five is highly regarded.”- Steve Clarke, Television 17.04.07
"High praise for the Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt. When a hack from (another) newspaper phoned Suffolk police press office with a query on the serial killer case, he was told 'Call Martin Brunt. He knows everything before we do.' A little concerning."
- Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 22.12.06
“In my radio studio I have the TV permenantly switched to Sky News in case of any breaking news.”
- Jon Gaunt, 21.11.06
"If you are ever looking for innovation and enterprise you’ll see it on Sky News"
- Evening Standard 10.05.06
“As soon as the Press Association broke the story (of the Whale in the Thames) at 11.18 am, Sky News scrambled its ‘Skycopter’. By 12.31 pm it was beaming out the first live aerial pictures, about half and hour before BBC News 24”.
- The Independent 21.01.06
“China piece was spot on. The article by Dominic Waghorn, Beijing crorrespondent for Sky News shows the real China. This article should be sent to media all over Britain and the US to show the truth of how Chinese people really are. I worked in China for 12 years and I believe this article 100 per cent”. - Press Gazette 20.01.06
“The suicide attacks on London in July brought the most shocking carnage of British peacetime history and a supreme test for journalists in all media. The rolling television news channels came into their own, with BBC News 24 recovering well from a shaky start, and Sky News correspondent Martin Brunt consistently ahead of the opposition as the investigation unfolded”.
- The Independent 30.12.05
"Throw Adam Boulton a question, and he'll fire back an instant camera-ready opinion. On a live 24-hour channel like Sky this rare ability to extemporise provocatively yet thoughtfully has made him one of Britain’s highest paid reporters."
- David Rowan, Evening Standard, April 2005
"Kay’s been there, done it and clearly hasn’t forgotten her first duty is to deliver a story. On the day, she was an absolute star."
- Daily Mirror commenting on Kay Burley's coverage of Charles and Camilla's wedding, April 2005
"You can't beat Sky News for updates on breaking news stories."
- Dawn Neeson, Daily Star Editor, My Life in Media, The Independent, 6.12.04
"What's the first media you turn to in the mornings?"
"Sky News - their coverage is superb."
- Christ Tarrant, My Life in Media, The Independent, 22.11.04
"Sky News is always on in the house."
- BBC Broadcaster Marc Riley, My Media, The Guardian, 22.11.04
"I have great respect for Sky News. It is the daddy of rolling news."
- Krishnan Guru-Murphy, Channel 4 News Presenter, Metro, 17.09.04
"Sky News...has deservedly won every broadcast news award going. It's a genuinely 24-hour service, and it's the channel that's always on during the day in the office of every executive editor in serious newspapers."
- John Walsh, The Independent, 24.07.04
"I am reluctant to write positively about Sky, which shares a stable with The Sunday Times...But Sky had a good war in Iraq, and along with Jon Snow's thoughtful Channel 4 News, it is about the only news worth watching."
- Jasper Gerard, The Sunday Times, 22.02.04
"Sky News...a remarkably good service that has managed to use its slimness to wriggle into places other news channels were far too fat for, and it is the station of choice for most print newsrooms."
- A.A. Gill, The Sunday Times: Culture, 15.02.04
"I have met them all. Rock stars, actors, footballers but my all-time hero is Francis. I’m serious. I’ve been watching him on Sky for nine years and he is always so laid-back and well turned-out. He’s the coolest man in the world."
- Rod Stewart, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show, May 1998