It won’t become Fox News Australia. I would put money on that. Many Fox News US viewers also watch Sky Australia, so I think News Corp would be keen to keep the two brands separate.
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Sky News Aus IS pure filth already.
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Not disputing that.
I think its quite amusing that Sky News may need to lose reference to the word “Sky”.
I always thought it was describing their product as “news” that was the issue, especially after the sun sets.
Mind you, I do have to admit that I often tune to Paul Murray of a night. White noise makes me sleep better.
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I don’t believe that had anything to do with losing the Sky News brand. I don’t think I’ve seen any speculation recently about the brand being changed in this country in any media reports. Wasn’t the statement on Media Watch about Sky News bosses being summoned to the UK to do with the failure of the Piers Morgan show to live up to expectations?
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Why would they meet Sky UK? That’s Comcast, not News Corp.
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The original poster mis-reported who “Sky News bosses” were summoned to meet with. I believe the poster was referring to the comment about being “summoned to London in coming weeks” in this edition of Media Watch from June 14 at 15:20 during the critique of Morgan’s show and its unsuitability for the Australian audience.
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Well it seems to be pivoting towards UK content so not surprised going forward if it gets bumped to overnights
Opposing The Voice… Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
Great… 
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Chris Kenny was a member of the senior advisory group that guided the Indigenous Voice co-design process.
A totally impartial moderator…
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This may surprise you.
That would be Chris Kenny, the former journalist-turned Liberal staffer-cum-columnist and TV host.
Kenny’s unwavering support for a Voice for Indigenous Australians has already been made clear through his writing (unlike his former boss Malcolm Turnbull, who got on board only this week after initially rejecting the Uluru Statement From the Heart while PM).
In 2019, former Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt appointed Kenny to a panel advising the then-Liberal government on how to add an Indigenous Voice to parliament, perhaps a smart move in hindsight.
But we hear that last month, during NAIDOC week, Kenny hosted an internal News Corp event with Indigenous leaders to discuss constitutional reform.
Our spies in attendance said a “persuasive” Kenny took questions from administrative staff, journalists and executives, and appeared to win over the room.
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No I mean he is heavily involved in one side of the argument.
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Being impartial and agreeing with one side are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Was idling around on YouTube and found this:
My, how much better was Sky News then? Okay, it was much more basic, but it was also much more watchable (IMO anyway). And… it was actually a news channel! None of this screeching that dominates prime time now (yes, i know the ratings are much higher now).
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Also didn’t rate as well. Sky News is run for profit.
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It would have certainly been interesting to see what it would have been like if it were fully Murdoch-owned from the start, rather than having Seven and Nine also having equal stakes in it - and thus probably having a perverse incentive for it to not really rate too much…
That said, even 15 years ago was a totally different media climate, it’s not exactly a given that they would have gone the Fox News-style path initially - although putting on at least one talking-head show would have been irresistible given the wild success of O’Reilly on Fox - finding a nationally-suitable conservative commentator out of the News stable in the pre-social media era would have been interesting though.
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Wow… businesses are run for profit?! I never knew that…
Was it not around 2009/2010 when Paul Murray made his first appearance on Sky? ISTR he started off with some sort of news-satire type show (180: The Other Side of the News). Then at some point Peter van Onselen got a daily show, and from there more and more Liberals and Liberal-adjacent figures got regular slots.
