Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms.
Sky News Australia launched on 19 February 1996, as the first Australian-produced television news channel. The channel was added to Austar on 1 April 2000. In 2004 Sky began broadcasting Sky News Active, its on-demand interactive TV news service. In 2008 it launched the Sky News Business Channel, and on 20 January 2009 it launched Australian Public Affairs Channel (A-PAC). It began widescreen broadcasting on 17 May 2009. In July 2010, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched ABC News 24 a free-to-air 24-hour news channel which competes with Sky News Australia.
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