''The Sky Report'' is a 60-minute newscast shown every weekday evening on

Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the hea ...

at 7 pm (GMT), broadcast between October 2005 and July 2006. The programme was hosted by long-standing Sky News presenter

Julie Etchingham Julie Anne Etchingham (born 21 August 1969) is an English journalist who works as a television newsreader with ITV News. A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, Etchingham joined the BBC as a trainee after completing her studies, and went on ...

, and showcased in-depth reports and analysis of the day's top news stories (generally emphasising "hard" news), often devoting significant time to reporting events given little or no coverage on the channel's daytime rolling-news shows. In February 2006,

Anna Botting Anna Elizabeth Botting (born 4 November 1967) is an English news presenter with Sky News, a broadcasting network based in the United Kingdom. She currently presents Sky News from 21:00 until midnight from Monday to Thursday. Prior to the channel ...

took over as regular host while Etchingham was on maternity leave.Wilkes, Neil, (2006-02-20)
Botting to host 'The Sky Report'
', ''Digital Spy'', URL last accessed 2007-01-06 Other stand-in presenters for the show included

Colin Brazier Colin Brazier (born 28 March 1968) is an English journalist, having previously worked for GB News between 2021 and 2022, and Sky News between 1997 and 2021. He presented ''Sky News Today'' on the channel alongside Jayne Secker since September ...

Martin Stanford Martin Stanford (born 2 May 1958) is an English journalist and former news presenter for ''Sky News'', having worked for the channel from 1991 to 2016. He was the first British newsreader to announce the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and ...

and

Jeremy Thompson Jeremy Gordon Thompson (born 23 September 1947) is an English journalist and former news presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour UK television news service operated by Sky UK. He was based at Sky News Centre in west London. He started out as a jou ...

. ''The Sky Report'' premiered on the evening of 24 October 2005, as part of a major revamp of the channel, but was axed on 10 July 2006, as part of a minor reshuffle of the channels schedules.

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