This was a massive project, which required a rigorous examination of many different systems, so when the new channel finally went on air, I knew immediately that all the effort we had made was starting to pay off.
Bevan Gibson
Deputy Head of Technology at Sky News
After the successful HD broadcast on the Sky Satellite platform and HD online streaming of Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, there was a collective view at Sky News to launch a permanent HD news channel. At 9PM on Thursday, 6 May, in time for the 2010 General Election results, Sky News HD was launched. That evening, it became the first UK news channel to broadcast in HD.