SkyNews.com, formerly ''Sky.com News'', is a nightly half-hour television news programme which was broadcast between 2007 and 2010, at 7pm weekdays 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 ...
in the United Kingdom. It was the first British news programme to be solely dedicated to Internet led news and was hosted by
Martin Stanford. The show was cancelled in 2010, with the last edition airing on 10 September 2010. The slot was replaced with a one-hour edition of ''
Jeff Randall Live'', which previously aired after ''SkyNews.com'' at 7.30pm.
History
The programme was launched in October 2007, and focused on the popular news stories on the Sky News website, as well as the
Internet
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as a whole. In February 2008, ''Sky.com News'' won a
Royal Television Society
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award for its innovative approach to news and for letting "the public rather than the news editor set the agenda.”
The programme was streamed live through the
Sky News website, and whilst the television programme went to a commercial break, Stanford would give the online audience additional content.
On 8 September 2008, ''Sky.com News'' became ''SkyNews.com'' (in line with a web address change for Sky News, which has since been superseded by news.sky.com) and moved to the 7pm slot each weekday, running until 7.30pm. The show previously ran from 7.30-8pm Tuesday to Friday.
On 1 September 2010, Martin Stanford announced via his
Twitter
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page that the show had been axed and would cease broadcasting on Friday 10 September.
so skynews.com is the only tv show with the web agenda for only another 10 days... then I cede 7pm to Randall and occupy 8-10pm instead!
Martin Stanford, Twitter, 1 September 2010
Categories
*Most clicked - The top stories on
SkyNews.com
'
*Movers - Martin and a guest blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...
ger chat about hot topics
*Buzz - A guest debate with web agenda
*Most searched - The top searched words on
SkyNews.com
'
*Video - Current popular web videos
References
External links
Blog
SkyNews.com
Sky News Online
Live Channel
2007 British television series debuts
2010 British television series endings
Sky News
Sky UK original programming
Sky television news shows
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