Sky News Radio
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Sky News Radio is the radio arm of the Sky News division of British Sky Broadcasting. It has been operating since June 1999, providing a news bulletin service for radio station operators across the UK and for British holidaying locations (such as the Canary Islands).[1]
There have also been proposals to launch Sky News Radio as a digital radio station in its own right, offering 24-hour news; but it is not clear whether these will go ahead.
The feed is available FTA at 28.2 East by manually tuning it in: 12118.00 H 27500 2/3
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[edit] Bulletin service
Sky News Radio provides bulletins, audio and scripts to radio newsrooms. Its clients include UTV Radio stations, GMG Radio (Real Radio, Smooth, Century and Rock), Global Radio (Heart, LBC, Galaxy), and others. Together the 60 + client stations reach 18 million people a week. The radio newsroom operates from Sky News' purpose-built studios at Osterley, London. The main competitor in the UK is IRN.
On 15 October 2008, IRN announced it was switching its main supplier of news from ITN to Sky News Radio, expanding its customer client list by more than 280 stations, and giving it a near-monopoly in UK commercial radio news provision.
Community radio stations around the UK also take the hourly bulletins, although they are not listed as customers on the Sky News Radio website.
[edit] Proposed radio station
Sky originally proposed to become a partner in an existing digital national rolling news station DNN, on air since 2001; but this fell through, and DNN closed in July 2006, having been bought out by Chrysalis Radio, which used the multiplex slots to syndicate its London phone-in driven LBC 97.3 station.
In March 2007 BSkyB and Chrysalis announced a new joint partnership to launch a dedicated Sky News Radio station on the proposed bid by Channel 4's 4 Digital Group for the second DAB multiplex in the United Kingdom.[2] Chrysalis's existing London rolling news station, LBC News 1152, would be re-branded 'Sky News Radio for London' and also carry the content.[3]
However, two months later Chrysalis sold its radio stations to Global Radio,[4] and following a business review Global's chief executive announced in October 2007 that the contract was not commercially attractive, and they would not be continuing with the proposals.[5][6] Sky said they would explore alternative options to still launch a service.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Sky News Radio". British Sky Broadcasting. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70003-1301145,00.html. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ^ "BSkyB and Chrysalis to launch “Sky News Radio”". Sky News. 2007-03-28. http://www.skypressoffice.co.uk/SkyNews/News/showarticle.asp?id=2180. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
- ^ "LBC News to become Sky News Radio". Radio Today. 2007-04-03. http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.1827. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
- ^ Chrysalis sells three radio stations, Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2007
- ^ Sky News Radio complications, Radio Today, 18 October 2007
- ^ Sky News Radio plan in doubt, The Guardian, 19 October 2007
