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Sky News

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

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How much the agenda changed

Moderate
37.7% 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
49 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

149h 46m of this channel's 182h analysed was identified news stories — ad breaks, weather, sport and trails count as “not news”.

Recent broadcasts

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Thursday 22 October 2026 · 22:00 BST

The Wrap With Anna Botting

The government warned British households to be ready for disruption if hostile states or terrorists attacked critical infrastructure, launching a three-year resilience campaign. The advice included thinking about what would be needed to survive three days in a crisis and a checklist covering water, food and medicine, with warnings about cyber attacks, payment systems going offline and supply-chain failures, including to supermarkets. Guests discussed whether the warning was a sensible precaution or risked overreaction and stockpiling.

3 stories · 30m
Thursday 22 October 2026 · 16:00 BST

Sky News Today with Jayne Secker

Downing Street said there was limited disruption to government services as websites worldwide were taken offline to patch critical coding flaws in PHP; a minister said 32 government services were unavailable and four partially unavailable, largely due to precautionary measures. Faisal Razzaq, who served jail time as getaway driver in the 2005 killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, was returning to prison over an underworld guns operation after admitting firearms offences. Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey told Sky News an apology from the King for the transatlantic slave trade would not hurt and the time had come for a conversation about reparations, ahead of the King's Caribbean tour; the UK government said it does not and will not pay reparations.

8 stories · 30m
Thursday 22 October 2026 · 10:00 BST

Sky News Today with Gareth Barlow

The programme began with a global cyber security emergency involving a flaw in PHP, the programming language used on many website back ends. A technology correspondent said the vulnerability allowed remote takeover of sites and had been found by AI, while officials and Cloudflare described growing exploitation attempts and efforts to patch systems. It then reported government plans in England and Wales to impose tougher penalties on offenders who refuse to attend sentencing, including cell confinement and restricted visits, building on earlier changes linked to cases such as Olivia Pratt-Korbel and Zara Aleena. A study was also reported finding that daily nicotine vaping may be as harmful to blood vessel health as smoking 20 cigarettes a day, with researchers saying people who never smoked should not start vaping.

6 stories · 30m
Thursday 22 October 2026 · 06:00 BST

Mornings

Amazon Web Services suggested an attempt to exploit a critical online security flaw was made days before it was publicly disclosed, while Cloudflare claimed millions of exploitation attempts were made hours after disclosure; an engineer using AI tools had spotted the flaw. A major study found that daily nicotine vaping may be as harmful to blood vessel health as smoking 20 cigarettes a day, with researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University comparing vapers, smokers and non-smokers over three years and saying the findings were particularly important for young people who had never smoked.

4 stories · 30m

On screen

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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. political correspondent 4.1× more often · 84 uses
    “She's been talking to Sky's political correspondent,” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Thursday 22 October 2026
  2. mess 3.4× more often · 49 uses
    “she said afterwards but actually he said clean up the mess that you've made and she said the” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Tuesday 20 October 2026
  3. regarding 3.4× more often · 31 uses
    “That anyone with any concerns regarding any abuse of a child or an adult” Sky News Today with Jayne Secker · Wednesday 21 October 2026
  4. front pages 3.3× more often · 64 uses
    “front pages” The Wrap With Anna Botting · Thursday 22 October 2026

News agenda by category

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

politics 34h 57m (23.6%) vs 22.8% avg
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Global
international 23h 35m (15.9%) vs 13.1% avg
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Global
crime 17h 31m (11.8%) vs 11.1% avg
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Global
war 10h 40m (7.2%) vs 6.2% avg
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Global
environment 10h 24m (7.0%) vs 7.7% avg
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Global
sport 8h 46m (5.9%) vs 5.7% avg
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Global
health 7h 41m (5.2%) vs 6.1% avg
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Global
economy 6h 55m (4.7%) vs 5.2% avg
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Global
media 6h 44m (4.6%) vs 6.6% avg
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Global
society 4h 40m (3.2%) vs 3.1% avg
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Global
immigration 4h 40m (3.1%) vs 4.6% avg
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Global
science 4h 15m (2.9%) vs 3.1% avg
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Global
transport 3h 55m (2.6%) vs 2.1% avg
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Global
other 3h 23m (2.3%) vs 2.5% avg
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Global

Timeline

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

Thursday 22 October 2026

Topics covered

crime

Cyber Security

25m 21s airtime

crime

Sentencing

4m 33s airtime

environment

Storms

2m 32s airtime

war

Ukraine

4m 12s airtime

international

Donald Trump

54s airtime

society

Emergency Preparedness

13m 25s airtime

international

Houthis

2m 1s airtime

crime

Russell Brand

1m 11s airtime

international

Afghanistan

2m 5s airtime

politics

Andy Burnham

4m 20s airtime

crime

Gun Crime

46s airtime

international

Poland

8m 13s airtime

international

Reparations

14m 36s airtime

crime

Retail Crime

1m airtime

health

Vapes

7m 7s airtime

Stories missed

No coverage gaps for this channel on this date.