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Sky News Extra

Sky News Extra (formerly A-PAC /ˈpæk/ AY-pak; Australian Public Affairs Channel) is an Australian 24-hour cable and satellite public affairs news channel owned by Foxtel.

Type

Politics • News and current affairs

Australia

Australia

English

20 January 2009 (2009-01-20)

Sky News Election Channel (linear channel; 1 May 2016 – 23 January 2017)

A-PAC

603

Programming[edit]

Sky News Extra content features live broadcasts from Australia's Parliament House in Canberra (including sittings of the House of Representatives, the Senate, parliamentary Committee meetings and political press conferences), the parliaments of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as well as sittings of the United States Congress, live broadcasts of speeches from the Australian National Press Club and a program which provides coverage of the New Zealand, Canadian and British parliaments. Material from the United Nations and the European Parliament is also aired.[5][4][1]

Availability[edit]

At launch Sky News Extra was available via satellite and cable television on channel 607; and was later made available by Internet streaming on its website, as well as on free-to-air digital television in Sydney as a trial.[4] On 15 November 2009, Sky News Extra's channel location for Foxtel changed from Channel 607 to Channel 648.


From 1 May 2016, the service's linear channel was replaced by Sky News Election Channel, resulting in the service only being available on the Sky News Multiview service and online.[13][14][15] Although the service was originally planned to relaunch as a linear channel on 30 November 2016,[15] this was later postponed,[16] and ultimately the linear channel did not return until 24 January 2017.[17] The relaunch did, however, see Sky News Extra obtain Sky News Election Channel's HD feed,[18] seeing the channel available in high definition for the first time.

Official website