Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia is a 24-hour news channel owned by News Corp Australia and distinct from the British broadcaster of the same name. Daytime bulletins are complemented by opinion-led evening programming whose hosts are widely characterized as right-leaning, drawing comparisons to Fox News. The channel reaches a large digital and YouTube audience alongside subscription television.

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Sky News Australia at a glance

Country: Australia
Region: Australia and New Zealand · Oceania
Kind of outlet: Television news channel
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
Founded: 1996
Owner: Australian News Channel (News Corp Australia)
Published from: Sydney
Website: skynews.com.au ↗
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How Crosswire groups Sky News Australia

Crosswire groups Sky News Australia as Right-leaning for comparisons within Australia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are listed as Left-leaning, while ABC News is listed as Centrist — so you can open Sky News Australia beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Sky News Australia sits in Australia's press

Sky News Australia was founded in 1996, is published from Sydney and is owned by Australian News Channel (News Corp Australia). It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Australia and the only television news channel tracked there. By outlets tracked, Australia ranks first of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.

Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 3 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Sky News Australia outside Australia, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are 1News (New Zealand) and EMTV Online (Papua New Guinea). Opening one of them beside Sky News Australia is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.