ABOUT SKY NEWS

Sky News when and where you want it

Sky News when and where you want it

Sky News is first with breaking news in more ways than ever. Not only available on TV, Sky News is a pioneering multi-platform news provider, online via skynews.com, on the radio via more than 300 commercial stations, on mobile phones, on iPhones, with SMS news alerts, on your desktops and on out-of-home screens. Sky News keeps you informed on UK train platforms, Virgin Atlantic flights and via a ticker tape in Piccadilly Circus. Wherever you are, Sky News delivers the news you want to watch.  

First for breaking news

As the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel, Sky News has built a deserved reputation for being the first to break major news, consistently out-performing the competition and winning more awards since its launch than any other news channel. Sky News has brought a fresh approach to news broadcasting, and is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live. It has won the Royal Television Society News Channel on six occasions since 2002 and three BAFTA's for news coverage.

First for flexible scheduling

Sky News' introduction of dedicated strands allows the channel to respond to various audience demands at different times of the day, yet each is designed to allow it to switch instantly to breaking news. With bulletins on the hour, and regular sport and business updates, Sky News is available to 145 million people in 36 countries in Europe alone as well as Asia, the Middle East  and Africa. Online, Sky News' award-winning website pioneered the UK's first video news podcast, has introduced unique features - Choose Your News and Story Tracker - and has introduced web-only programmes. So Sky News is first with breaking news in more ways that ever.

First for innovation

Since 1989, Sky News has been responsible for virtually every single innovation in television news, from the introduction of Sky News Active, the world's first interactive TV news channel, to the Newswall, enabling big stories to be told where scale is important. And from the world's first barrier-less newsroom studio, to reconstructions and verbatim stenography from the courts and ground-breaking content and analysis on skynews.com, reporting the stories making the headlines on the web.