About Skynews
Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the U. K. that started as a 24-hour television news channel. John Ryley is the Head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with other partners. Another sister channel, Sky News Australia, was part owned by Sky News parent Sky plc until December 2016. A channel called Sky News International, with the same news content as the UK channel but without British adverts, is available in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Sky News Radio provides national and international news to commercial radio and community radio stations in the UK and to other English-language stations around the world. Sky News also provides content to Yahoo! News. The channel is available on Apple TV, Roku and YouTube. HistoryEstablishment and early yearsOn 8 June 1988, Rupert Murdoch announced plans to start a new television news service in a speech to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Sky News started broadcasting at 6 pm on 5 February 1989. In the early days the channel operated on a £40 million budget (plus £10 million share of overheads), which led Sam Chisholm, chief executive of the newly merged BSkyB to suggest to Murdoch that the station to be closed, but Rupert was "pleased with its achievements. . . there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it. . . the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel. " – former deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw said in the House of Lords in 1990 that Sky News had "a very high reputation. . . I admire it, as do many other people, it will certainly waken up both the BBC and ITN and ensure that they compete with what is a very important news service". The channel has never been run for a profit, and has considered using ITN to supplement the service.
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Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the U. K. that started as a 24-hour television news channel. John Ryley is the Head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with other partners. Another sister channel, Sky News Australia, was part owned by Sky News parent Sky plc until December 2016. A channel called Sky News International, with the same news content as the UK channel but without British adverts, is available in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Sky News Radio provides national and international news to commercial radio and community radio stations in the UK and to other English-language stations around the world. Sky News also provides content to Yahoo! News. The channel is available on Apple TV, Roku and YouTube. HistoryEstablishment and early yearsOn 8 June 1988, Rupert Murdoch announced plans to start a new television news service in a speech to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Sky News started broadcasting at 6 pm on 5 February 1989. In the early days the channel operated on a £40 million budget (plus £10 million share of overheads), which led Sam Chisholm, chief executive of the newly merged BSkyB to suggest to Murdoch that the station to be closed, but Rupert was "pleased with its achievements. . . there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it. . . the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel. " – former deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw said in the House of Lords in 1990 that Sky News had "a very high reputation. . . I admire it, as do many other people, it will certainly waken up both the BBC and ITN and ensure that they compete with what is a very important news service". The channel has never been run for a profit, and has considered using ITN to supplement the service.