Broadcast Prism One story, split by channel. See the full spectrum.

Channel profile

Sky News

What Sky News chose to cover, what it left out, and how its agenda compares with the rest of the roster.

← Back to dashboard

How much the agenda changed

Moderate
37.0% day-to-day change

This channel keeps some regular areas of focus while changing enough to follow the daily news cycle.

Stories this channel missed

Several missed
50 missed stories recorded

Number of times this broadcaster did not cover stories that several other channels covered.

Time spent on news stories

82% of analysed airtime

159h 5m of this channel's 193h analysed was identified news stories — ad breaks, weather, sport and trails count as “not news”.

Recent broadcasts

View all Sky News broadcasts →

The latest broadcasts behind this channel's analysis — open one to see its annotated timeline.

Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 15:00 GMT

Sky News Today with Jayne Secker

The whole 30 minutes and 4 seconds of the bulletin were given to John Healey's first Budget, making it a single-story UK politics and economics special. The coverage was dominated by the chancellor's measures, reaction from MPs and economists, and the OBR's revised forecasts.

1 story · 30m
Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 09:00 GMT

Mornings with Ridge and Frost

John Healey's first Budget led a domestic-heavy bulletin and took more than twenty minutes, with energy bill changes and cost-of-living measures dominating. The fatal high-speed train collision near Toledo received just over four minutes as the reported death toll rose to at least 39.

2 stories · 30m
Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 22:00 GMT

The Wrap With Anna Botting

An internationally weighted bulletin led and dominated by Israel's deadlocked election, which took 16 minutes 46 seconds. The King's Bahamas speech got 8 minutes 10 seconds, while the Budget preview got 2 minutes 22 seconds and Fleetwood Town's League Cup upset got 1 minute 15 seconds.

4 stories · 30m
Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 18:30 GMT

The News Hour With Mark Austin

The bulletin led with pre-Budget cost of living measures and gave most of its time to Israel's election, at eight minutes and 42 seconds. The lead item ran five minutes and 14 seconds, while the Manchester United sport item got 48 seconds.

3 stories · 30m

On screen

Stills are sampled automatically at 60-second intervals. Where shown, the still is the nearest available frame from the relevant broadcast segment and is included to show what was on screen during that part of the broadcast. A still may not correspond to the exact second of a quoted phrase.

Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 28 October 2026
Sky News, Mornings with Ridge and Frost, 28 October 2026
Sky News, Mornings with Ridge and Frost, 28 October 2026
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 27 October 2026
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 27 October 2026
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 27 October 2026
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 27 October 2026
Sky News, The News Hour With Mark Austin, 27 October 2026

Repeatedly missed categories

Categories where this broadcaster often missed stories that other channels covered.

sport 5 of 12 gaps

This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.

Missed topics:
Commonwealth Games (Thursday 23 July 2026)World Cup (Monday 20 July 2026)World Cup (Thursday 16 July 2026)World Cup (Friday 3 July 2026)World Cup (Thursday 2 July 2026)

Category trend (last 30 days)

How this channel's coverage changed by category over the past month.

Flagged quotes over time

Contested and charged quotes per hour of analysed airtime. Flagged quotes reflect the language this broadcaster aired, not a judgement of its accuracy.

Distinctive vocabulary

Words and phrases this channel used far more often than the rest of UK TV news over the last 30 days. Distinctive vocabulary describes word choice relative to other channels, not accuracy or bias — terms reflect the stories a channel covered as much as how it framed them.

  1. chief political 20×+ more often · 23 uses
    “Chief political correspondent Jon Craig is in central lobby, in his” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  2. political correspondent 3.9× more often · 84 uses
    “Chief political correspondent Jon Craig is in central lobby, in his” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  3. mess 3.3× more often · 50 uses
    “we all know we've got to pay to get out of the mess we're in. We're aware of that.” Mornings with Ridge and Frost · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  4. front pages 3.1× more often · 62 uses
    “at the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers” The Wrap With Anna Botting · Tuesday 27 October 2026
  5. regarding 3.0× more often · 31 uses
    “are needed regarding Russian attacks,” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Tuesday 27 October 2026

News agenda by category

How this channel divided its coverage compared with the cross-channel average.

politics 38h 20m (24.4%) vs 23.5% avg
Channel
Global
international 24h 57m (15.9%) vs 13.2% avg
Channel
Global
crime 18h 5m (11.5%) vs 10.9% avg
Channel
Global
environment 11h 31m (7.3%) vs 7.9% avg
Channel
Global
war 11h 3m (7.0%) vs 6.0% avg
Channel
Global
sport 9h 5m (5.8%) vs 5.7% avg
Channel
Global
health 7h 42m (4.9%) vs 5.9% avg
Channel
Global
media 7h 19m (4.7%) vs 6.8% avg
Channel
Global
economy 6h 57m (4.4%) vs 5.0% avg
Channel
Global
society 5h 10m (3.3%) vs 3.3% avg
Channel
Global
immigration 4h 45m (3.0%) vs 4.4% avg
Channel
Global
science 4h 18m (2.7%) vs 3.0% avg
Channel
Global
transport 4h 6m (2.6%) vs 2.0% avg
Channel
Global
other 3h 37m (2.3%) vs 2.4% avg
Channel
Global

Timeline

This channel's topic coverage day by day — what it ran, and how much time each story got.

Wednesday 28 October 2026

Topics covered

transport

Spain Train Crash

4m 11s airtime

politics

UK Budget

50m 24s airtime

Stories missed

medium Significance

Israel Election

Not covered in this broadcast