Sky News coverage to be featured on MSNBC as part of commercial agreement

Sky News has reached a multi-year woody with 1 of the astir influential US quality networks, which volition spot it wage for usage of its cross-platform coverage. 

The channel's unrecorded broadcasts, TV packages and online journalism are to beryllium utilized by MSNBC arsenic portion of a commercialized agreement, the details of which were not disclosed.

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All Sky News' British and overseas TV sum is included successful the agreement, which volition statesman connected 1 October, further bringing the reporting to a US audience.

MSNBC volition person nary relation successful the commissioning of Sky coverage, and nary MSNBC programming volition beryllium taken by Sky News, arsenic portion of the arrangement.

MSNBC is gathering up its operations up of its planned spin-off from NBC News and genitor institution Comcast.

The new, separated entity volition beryllium named Versant and beryllium a nationalist institution with shares traded connected a banal exchange.

Comcast is besides the genitor institution of Sky News. Sky's narration with its sister quality organisation NBC volition beryllium unaffected by the deal.

More than 500 journalists enactment for Sky News from 11 bureaus, including Moscow, Beijing, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg.

MSNBC is simply a large cablegram quality network, watched by an mean of 1.2 cardinal viewers a day, truthful acold this year, with its mean spectator watching for much than 8 hours a week.

Its YouTube and TikTok channels person much than 6.2 cardinal views combined truthful acold this year.

"In this infinitesimal of consequential and historical quality events happening astir the satellite that are rapidly reshaping our corporate future, we are honoured to bring Sky News' premium, on-the-ground reporting and roster of apical journalists to the MSNBC community," said MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler.