5 Facts About Sky Sports News

1. Sky Sports News was removed from Freeview on 23 August 2010 and replaced with Sky3+1, a one-hour timeshift Sky3.

2. In 2004, Sky Sports News changed its image, with a more open blue look to the channel.

3. Sky Sports News launched on 1 October 1998, the launch date of BSkyB's Digital Satellite service, and was BSkyB's first digital only channel.

4. Sky Sports News plays, like all the French news channels, the replay edition of Through the Night continuously all night long.

5. Sky Sports News is a British pay television sports news channel run by Sky, a division of Comcast.