{"id":119107,"date":"2025-09-04T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119107\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:40:07","slug":"fox-news-presenters-to-get-australia-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119107\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News presenters to get Australia slot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions have also been raised over whether Sky can keep its famed YouTube channel without its \u201cSky News\u201d naming licence, which as we discussed last week<\/a>, has almost 6 million subscribers, and has amassed almost 7 billion views over its lifespan.<\/p>\n

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With a catalogue of 200,000 videos with Sky\u2019s branding splashed across the channel, staff are wondering if it could lose it all come December next year.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always like this for Sky News Australia, which launched as a co-venture between BSkyB, Nine and Seven in 1996. Before 2016, Stan Grant and David Speers hosted evening shows alongside Paul Murray on a network not exclusively home to the same Liberal Party cheerleading that now appears on air.<\/p>\n

But in 2016, News Corp took over, the Foxification began and Sky After Dark was born.<\/p>\n

Maybe this was the strategy all along. Or maybe it\u2019s just another case of Fox forcing its way onto our screens using its market power, as fellow Trump-loving network Newsmax alleged on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talk of the gallery <\/p>\n

After conducting its final round of interviews two weeks ago, The Guardian finally got back to the candidates for its top political job \u2013 to ask for two more weeks.<\/p>\n

Poised to finally make its big hire after a nine-month stretch without a political editor<\/a>, it instead underwent a minor restructure. Two staff members were made redundant, including head of audio Miles Martignoni, who took to LinkedIn to announce his departure on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Making redundancies while candidates (and the gallery) wait for the white smoke to emerge from Guardian HQ is \u201cnot a good sign\u201d, said one former staffer as word of the two-week extension filtered out.<\/p>\n

With that, the post-election press gallery merry-go-round rolls on \u2013 News Corp needs to replace ABC-bound Clare Armstrong and Capital Brief\u2019s Anthony Galloway is heading south to cover state politics for The Australian in Melbourne, and there\u2019s no direct replacement waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n

With heavy intrigue over Andrew Greene\u2019s immediate landing at The West Australian and The Nightly, it\u2019s a wonder no one else can move at the speed of 84-year-old Kerry Stokes.<\/p>\n

Albo\u2019s got your back<\/p>\n

The usually hyper-competitive TV networks got together and played nice for the nation\u2019s top politicians in Parliament House this week in a lobbying event. They pulled an impressive crowd, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Communications Minister Anika Wells and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley also showing up despite a busy schedule during a parliamentary sitting week.<\/p>\n

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TV heavyweights pose with the PM:Bridget Fair, Andrew Lancaster, Beverley McGarvey, Anthony Albanese, Matt Stanton and Jeff Howard.<\/p>\n

It seemed to work. Albanese got up in front of the most powerful people on TV and declared \u201cmy government has your back\u201d against the tech giants, a statement that contrasts with inaction on the Media Bargaining Incentive, 18 months after Meta pulled its cash<\/a> from media companies.<\/p>\n

So, did the crowd buy it? Not really, if conversations with the attendees are anything to go by.<\/p>\n

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