Sky World News

"Sky World News" is a programme which airs in the first half hour of each hour between 4-6 am GMT on Sky News. With no regular presenters, it is fronted by the overnight presenter who is on shift. The programme is produced by a specific team of foreign news specialists. The back half hours in this time slot are known as 'Sky World News and Business Review' and contain further international news stories and more in depth business coverage. Despite this little difference in content, the two half hours are branded separately.

The programme was initially started in the Summer of 2005, in the build up to the revamp of Sky News, the first bulletin was presented by Anjali Rao who is now an anchor with CNN. The programme employs its own sports presenter, Graeme Winch, who reads the sport live (all other overnight sports bulletins are recorded). The weather presenter also records special weather forecasts shown throughout the hour which cover Africa, Europe and the world as a whole.

The programme is unique in that it is now the only slot to rotate the desk to use the globe backdrop. It also makes extensive use of various 'stings' to divide up the content.

In the past the team has made use of content from American broadcasters in the back half hour segments.