News

BBC:

founded 1st January 1927, by John Reith and George Villiers. £3,446.8 million in licence fees collected from householders; £888.3 million from BBC Commercial Businesses; £293 million from government grants; £112.9 million from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales.

Broadcast: weekly reach; Radio- 66.5%, BBC tv- 85.3%. BBC Radio 2, playing adult contemporary, country and soul music amongst many other genres; BBC Radio 3, playing classical and jazz music and home to the BBC Proms: BBC Radio 4, offering current affairs, factual, drama and comedy speech programmes and BBC Radio 5 live, broadcasting 24 hour news, sport and talk programmes.
E-media: bbc.co.uk- 57%. for seven days after broadcast using the BBC iPlayer platform, which launched on 27 July 2007, and initially used peer-to-peer. In recent years some major on-line companies and politicians have complained that BBC Online receives too much funding from the television licence, meaning that other websites are unable to compete with the vast amount of advertising-free on-line content available on BBC Online

SKY NEWS:

Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New Zealand, as well as their previously operated version in Ireland. Sky News is also offered in an international version without the British adverts under the name Sky News International available in Europe and Asia.
Sister channels are: Challenge, Pick TV, Sky 1, Sky2 ,Sky arts, Sky Atlantic, sky living, sky livingit, Sky living loves, Sky movies, Sky movies box office, Sky sports, Sky sports news. Websites they own are official websites and live stream (UK & Ireland only).
In March 2007, BSkyB and Chrysalis Group announced a 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.

CHANNEL 5

News is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5 produced by Sky news. From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Channel 5,
The 5 News website features the day's top news story, as well as detailed weather forecasts and a blog written by Five News presenters. 2004 Boxing Day tsunami brought this forward two days in a short Saturday evening update.