Sky Sports News
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Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British paid television sports news channel run by Sky, a division of Comcast.
History
Since 1992, Sky Sports had broadcast sports news, initially a brief Football Update and later this was expanded into a 30-minute programme called Sky Sports Centre. These programmes were generally broadcast on weekdays at 6pm and 10pm.
Sky Sports News began with test runs on 10 August 1998 with Mike Wedderburn and Kelly Cates launching the channel with the first edition of Good Morning Sports Fans.[1] The service became officially available to the public on 1 October, the launch date of BSkyB's Digital Satellite service, and was BSkyB's first digital only channel. On 10 April 2000, Sky Sports News relaunched as Sky Sports.com TV, to tie with the launch of the SkySports.com website.
The channel scrapped its ".com TV" look, and on 1 July 2001, Sky Sports News launched another graphics change. A major part of this was the standardisation, i.e., a more corporate look across the Sky channels. The channel also scrapped its slogan and just paid attention to the fact of the news.
From 2002, Sky Sports News was available free to view on digital terrestrial TV.[2] From April 2002, Sky Sports News had another face-lift, the channel stayed in the same studio, but with a silver look replacing the old wooden bench, and there was a promise of being first for breaking news, along with much more useful information.
In 2004, Sky Sports News changed its image, with a more open blue look to the channel. The titles featured players such as
On 20 May 2007, SSN broadcast the
Virgin Media dispute
On 1 March 2007,
From 1 September 2009, the channel was made available to subscribers of the Sports Pack, in addition to being available in the News & Events Pack.[5]
2010–present
Sky Sports News was removed from Freeview on 23 August 2010 and replaced with Sky3+1, a one-hour timeshift
The channel also previously used a different piece of music for each news programme, the most well-known of these being Republica's "Ready to Go", "The Time Is Now" by Moloko, "Surface to Air" by The Chemical Brothers, "Shooting Star" by Deepest Blue, and "Club Foot" by Kasabian.
Sky Sports News was rebranded as Sky Sports News HQ on 12 August 2014. As part of the change the channel moved to Sky channel 401.[11] At the same time the channel introduced an updated studio including brand new features, overhauled graphics and a new theme.[12] Following the rebrand of the Sky Sports channels in July 2017, the channel returned to its original name: Sky Sports News.
Sky Sports News HD
Sky Sports News HD launched on 23 August 2010 on Sky channel 455,[13] transferring to channel 405 several months later. The HD channel offered enhancements such as widescreen viewing and sharper graphics. A range of new programmes, such as First Fast Now and Sky Sports News at Seven were launched plus new presenters, as well as the extension of existing offerings, such as Ed Chamberlin presenting a regular live Sunday afternoon sports update.[14]
Sky backed the launch of the channel with an extensive advertising campaign.
Simulcasts
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A number of programmes are simulcast on other Sky Sports channels, including Soccer Saturday and many of the midweek Soccer Specials. Also, Sky Sports News airs on Sky Sports Main Event when that channel is not showing live sport.
Soccer Saturday has been simulcast on other Sky Sports channels for many years. Until the 2007/08 season most or all of the programme was broadcast on Sky Sports 1. This was cut back in August 2007 to just the live scores section of the programme i.e., between 15:00 and 17:15. Simulcasting of Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports 1 stopped altogether in August 2010 but returned to Sky Sports 1 for the 2013–14 season as part of Sky Sports 1 devoting all of Saturdays to football. The simulcast ran between 15:00 and 16:55. For the 2014–15 season the simulcasts switched to the newly launched Sky Sports 5. Since the rebranding of the Sky Sports channels in 2017, Soccer Saturday has been shown on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football, and more recently, the 3pm to 5pm portion of the programme has also been broadcast on Sky One and this portion of the programme is also aired on Sky Showcase.
Until 1 July 2013, two hours of live feed (daily at 07:00 BST, weekdays at 17:00 BST) and one hour of delayed feed (daily at 23:00 BST) were picked up by
Upon Comcast's acquisition of Sky, Sky Sports began to collaborate with the networks of its U.S. counterpart
Presenters
Current presenters
- Ed Draper
- David Garrido
- Pete Graves
- Hayley McQueen
- Nick Powell
- Simon Thomas (presents Soccer Saturday, Soccer Special weekend editions)
- Clare Tomlinson
- Mike Wedderburn
- Jo Wilson
- Rob Wotton
Former presenters
- Kate Abdo
- Ally Begg
- Georgie Bingham
- Paul Boardman
- David Bobin
- Kelly Cates
- Ed Chamberlin
- Dave Clark
- Millie Clode
- Ali Douglas
- Jill Douglas
- Sean Fletcher
- Kirsty Gallacher
- Steve Gaisford
- Alex Hammond
- Alex Hyndman
- Charlotte Jackson
- David Jones
- Adam Leventhal
- Graham Little
- Dan Lobb
- Gabby Logan
- Matthew Lorenzo
- Sam Matterface
- Kate Mason
- Rob McCaffrey
- Sarah-Jane Mee
- Lee McKenzie
- Alex Payne
- Ian Payne
- Natalie Sawyer
- Isha Sesay
- Andy Steggall
- Di Stewart
- Georgie Thompson
- Rachel Wyse
- Charlie Webster
- Jim White
- Rhodri Williams
- Tony Wrighton
See also
References
- ^ Kelly Cates speaks about being a part of the very first broadcast | 25 Years of Sky Sports News, retrieved 5 October 2023
- ^ "UK DTT Channel List (Freeview)". Unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ Sky One, Sky News pulled from Virgin Digital Spy, 1 March 2007
- ^ Sky1, Sky News back on Virgin cable Digital Spy, 4 November 2008
- ^ "Sky Sports News to join the sports pack". Digital Spy. 30 July 2009.
- ^ "Sky Sports News to get bigger and better as a pay TV channel". British Sky Broadcasting. 17 June 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
- ^ "Sky Sports News to go subscription-only". Media Week. 17 June 2010.
- ^ "Sky Sports news to be replaced by Sky3+1 on Freeview". UK Free TV. 17 June 2010. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ "Sky Sports News to move to pay". Broadband TV News. 17 June 2010.
- ^ Bigger and better! Sky Sports, 24 August 2010
- ^ "Sky Sports News HQ will launch on August 12 on the new channel of 401". Sky Sports. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ Newton, Thomas (8 August 2014). "Sky Sports News HQ: First look at the new studio". Recombu. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ^ "Programme Information Highlights" (PDF). Sky Programme Information. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
- ^ "Sky Sports News HD to launch on August 23". Digital Spy. 20 July 2010.
- ^ "NBCSN will replace the Dan Patrick Show with a PFT Live replay and an hour of Sky Sports News". Awful Announcing. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "NBCSN replaces Sky Sports News with "NBC Sports Football Flex" as it ramps up NFL Draft coverage". Awful Announcing. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.