Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova Entertainment will soon offer a live audio stream of Sky News in Australia to users of its Nova Player app as part of a new deal between the two Murdoch-controlled media assets.
The deal, announced on Monday, will see Sky News Radio reach a further 6.4 million listeners, according to the companies, with live news bulletins, including First Edition hosted by Peter Stefanovic, from 5.30am throughout the day on weekdays.
Sky News’ controversial weekly commentary show, Outsiders, will also be made available to Nova listeners, as well as Business Weekend and The Media Show. Users of the Nova app will be able to reach back into the archives and stream on-demand episodes of shows like Sharri, Credlin, The Bolt Report, Chris Kenny Tonight and Paul Murray Live as part of the tie-up.
“We look forward to bringing Nova Player listeners our roster of industry-leading journalists and Australia’s best commentators,” Tim Love, head of digital at Sky News Australia, said in a statement.
Nova’s chief growth officer Adam Johnson said Sky News Radio will make the “perfect” addition to the radio group’s app, which also offers users access to Smooth FM and Star music stations.
“We know our audience are hungry for breaking stories, 24/7 rolling news and opinion and now they are able to access all of this with a simple swipe on their device,” Johnson said in a statement, before pumping up the product’s tires for advertisers.
Sky News’ audio agreement with Nova comes less than one week after the channel took to media buyers the idea of a new channel dedicated to around-the-clock coverage of the upcoming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
The dedicated channel, first reported by The Australian Financial Review last week, is likely to rehash pressers and news packages lifted from Sky News main, along with sparsely broadcasted original spots, which will also be broadcast on Sky News. The channel’s working title is “The Voice”, subject to change — if it ever materialises.
If you’re a masochist, that’d be better than sticking needles into your eyeballs.
Would it though?
I’d sooner shave my eyeballs than listen to their tripe.
We must do something about our media laws. We are being overrun by extreme right-wing religious nutters. Thank goodness for Crikey, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and the ABC for factual news. Sanity can still prevail.
Any business I go into that has this crap on a screen will get a clear explanation of why I am taking my business elsewhere.
The MF Witches are posting lists of advertisers we can boycott.
Yep I boycott newscorp advertisers and the charities that get use by them
it’s about choices
The increasing availability of Sky News. Not a positive development for Australian society at all
There is not enough money on this dying planet that would cause me to watch it.
All the opinions that Australian gumbies are dying to hear, unpolluted by any actual news, facts or contrasting views.
Now explains why ABC RN has been cutting it’s asynchronous transmission or communication channels i.e. no direct podcast downloads, no comments, Listen App that does not work &/or cannot be downloaded and anodyne presenters, that limits listening to live or home streaming via internet; surely they have not been making space for this ‘entertainment’ in regions over Australians’ most trusted source?
Surely, there can’t be another 6.4 million people interested in watching this crap, can there?
Please tell me there’s not.
Please! I beg you!
No just a remote possibility that becomes fact in their marketing
The Murdocracy extending its tentacles into Australian homes.