sky news UK live

Sky News Radio carries the audio feed of Sky News, the twenty-four-hour television news service, as a continuous stream: headlines, breaking coverage, interviews and analysis, with no music at all. Sky News launched in 1989 as Britain's first dedicated rolling news channel, arriving before the BBC's equivalent and reshaping how news is covered in the country. The radio feed exists because a large share of that output works perfectly well without pictures — studio discussion, live reporting, press conferences — and because a rolling news service is well suited to listening while driving or working. Behind the consumer stream, Sky also runs a wholesale news operation that supplies bulletins to a long list of commercial radio stations across the UK, which means many listeners hear Sky journalism without ever tuning to this feed. What it is not is a music station. Coverage is continuous and the schedule is dictated by events rather than by a clock, so the same hour can be a scheduled programme or wall-to-wall breaking news. Sky News Radio streams online around the clock. Press play above to listen, free and with nothing to install.