Qvest, a specialist in media-focused practices, has successfully completed a comprehensive broadcast transformation and modernisation of the media infrastructure for Sky News Arabia (SNA), one of the flagship media brands under IMI Media Group. The project enables SNA’s seamless transition to IMI’s new state-of-the-art headquarters on Yas Island, a renowned hub for innovation and creativity […]
Sky News has agreed a deal with IRN (Independent Radio News) to continue providing national and international news, sport, business and showbusiness content to commercial radio stations across the UK. Effective immediately, the renewal features an expanded agreement allowing IRN radio stations – including LBC, Absolute Radio, talkSPORT, Smooth Radio, Heart, Magic and Times Radio […]
Sky News is considering a big programming shake-up to create a paid model as its linear viewing continues to slide. David Rhodes, executive chair of the Comcast-owned channel, laid out a strategy dubbed ;Sky News 2030′ that will reshape its digital-focus over the next five years to attract new audiences willing to pay for news, […]
UK commercial news organisations have attacked the BBC for promoting its services above their media apps on smartphones on Apple and Android platforms. Executives accused the BBC of an aggressive marketing strategy in app stores that has diverted audiences away from commercial news apps. The corporation’s “apparent willingness to compete very aggressively with commercial providers […]
In a new timely 1×60 documentary, Sky News’ chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay boards The Beast – the infamous freight train that carries thousands of desperate migrants through Mexico, hoping to reach the US border. The Beast will air on Sky Documentaries and Sky News on November 22nd. With stricter immigration enforcement across the region, as […]
Voters across England and Wales will go to polls on May 2nd to elect councillors, metro mayors and police and crime commissioners in what will be the last big electoral test before the next general election. Sky News will bring audiences the full story, with special coverage from when the polls close, through the weekend […]
Sky News has announced that Matt Barbet is joining the channel as a regular presenter. Known from his time anchoring news programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 5, Barbet’s long career with public-service broadcasters will infuse the multi-platform video journalism he’ll create at Sky. Barbet commented: “Now is the perfect time to join Sky […]
It was 35 years-ago today (February 5th 1989) that Sky TV’s first channels were launched over Europe and targeting the UK. The Sky Channel went live at 6pm UK time together with Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport. It had been expected that a Disney-branded channel would also be included but on June 3th an […]
In a new Sky News documentary, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his crew take audiences on a month-long undercover mission embedded at the epicentre of Myanmar’s secretive resistance movement. The Last Hospital: 30 Days in Myanmar goes to the heart of a jungle battleground in one of the most closed off countries in the world. […]
In a new documentary, Behind the Strikes, Sky News takes cameras behind the scenes of two of the biggest and most disruptive trade union industrial disputes of 2023, teachers and nurses. The story is told through the lens of two women: Pat Cullen, the Royal College of Nursing’s General Secretary and Dr Mary Bousted, the […]