The Sky Report

The Sky Report was a 60-minute newscast shown every weekday evening on Sky News at 7 pm. The programme was hosted by long-standing Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham, and showcased in-depth reports and analysis of the day's top news stories, often devoting significant time to reporting events given little or no coverage on the channel's daytime rolling-news shows. In February 2006, Anna Botting took over as regular host while Etchingham was on maternity leave. Other stand-in presenters for the show included Colin Brazier, Martin Stanford and Jeremy Thompson. The Sky Report premiered on the evening of 24 October 2005, as part of a major revamp of the channel, but was axed on July 10, 2006, as part of a minor reshuffle of the channels schedules.