The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Sky News had had a free hand with domestic news for over eight years ( since 5 February 1989 ) and being owned by News International their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News.

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

A key claim made by Lord Lambert in his report had been that the channel was slower to react to breaking news compared with its main rival Sky News.

The Lambert Report into the channel's performance in 2002 called upon News 24 to develop a better brand of its own, to allow viewers to differentiate between itself and similar channels such as Sky News.

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BFBS TV1, BFBSTV2, BFBSTV Kids and Sky TV News for non-military.

Sky News Australia is Fox's sister channel.

FNC is carried in the Republic of Ireland by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC's parent ( News Corporation ).

Due to the shared ownership of Fox and Sky, Fox News and Sky News share bureaus and reporters for breaking news stories worldwide.

Due to the shared ownership of Fox and Sky, Fox News ( and Fox Business ) and Sky News share bureaus and reporters for breaking news stories worldwide.

During February in 2007 Jamiroquai performed the record breaking Gig in the Sky in association with Sony Ericsson.

Moore celebrated the record breaking 700th episode of The Sky at Night at his home in Sussex on 6 March 2011.

Some networks, such as Sky News, largely emphasize this, even advertising the station as being " first for breaking news ".

Sky News Alerts is a SMS and MMS breaking news service available on all mobile phones inside Australia.

Tajima would finish as runner up in the All Japan Dirt Trial Championship that year with the same car and won the Race to the Sky hillclimb in 2003, before it was rebuilt as a Grand Vitara, then in 2007 as an XL7, breaking the overall course record at Pikes Peak.

Some networks, such as Sky News, largely emphasize this, even advertising the station as being " first for breaking news ".

He is still fondly remembered by Sky Blues fans as being responsible for breaking one of Coventry's longstanding hoodoo's-victory at Villa Park: Boateng scored twice in the 4 – 1 win over Aston Villa at Villa Park on 27 February 1999, ending Coventry's 63 year long wait for a league win at the ground.

The track is TVXQ's 26th single to enter the Top 10 ranking since " Sky " in 2006, breaking BoA's former record of 25 singles.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

In 1953 the team traded its Sky Train for a Curtiss R5C Commando.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

It also broadcasts its sister channel, Sky News.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

* According to Homer Hickam's memoir, Rocket Boys, and its movie production, October Sky, the early rockets he and his friends built were ironically named " Auk ".

Amstrad has been a major supplier of set top boxes to UK satellite TV provider Sky since its launch in 1989.

The fair's motto was " Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Adapts "; its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other.

" Although the band virtually had no support by television or by radio broadcasting in its first four years, Korn would go on to influence Pleymo, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Evanescence, P. O. D., Cold, Staind, System of a Down, Seether, One Minute Silence, Kittie, Endo, Taproot, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Otep, Hoobastank, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Impending Doom, Five Pointe O, Lacuna Coil, Chris Volz, Videodrone, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bleed the Sky, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Shinedown, Coal Chamber, Three Days Grace, Flymore, Bring Me the Horizon, Trapt, Molotov and other bands.

ONdigital also failed to realise that Sky had cast off its downmarket image and believed there was considerable public antipathy towards Sky ( and Rupert Murdoch ); but this appeared to matter much less than they had hoped.

In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked Van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short.

) In 2007, she re-teamed with her Grace and Gratitude producer, Amy Sky, for Christmas Wish ( No. 187 Pop ) which was sold exclusively by Target in its first year of release.

For example, the Investment Bankers Association told its members as early as 1915 that they could " ignore " Blue Sky laws by making securities offerings across state lines through the mail.

The WNBA awarded its first real expansion team to Chicago ( later named the Sky ) in February 2006.

* The crowd-funded film Iron Sky makes use of the song " B Mashina " in several of its trailers.

* 1954 – Texaco adds the detergent additive Petrox to its " Sky Chief " gasoline, which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high-compression engines.

On April 1, 2012, Miramax and Sky Italia, Italy ’ s leading pay TV platform, announced a deal under which that network will air many of the leading titles from Miramax ’ s collection across all of its pay television channels in Italy.

The second commercial DBS service, Sky Television plc ( now BSkyB after its merger with British Satellite Broadcasting's five-channel network ), was launched in 1989.

Dominion Video Satellite Inc .' s Sky Angel launch on a satellite platform in the United States in 1996 with its DBS service geared toward the faith and family market.

However it was suggested that the reverence for the colors red and white can trace its origin to older common Austronesian mythology of Mother Earth and Father Sky ; both symbolize in colors red ( earth ) and white ( sky ).