Alt Name: | News Hour at Six with Mark Austin |
Location: | Studio 21, Sky Central Osterley, London |
Camera: | Multi-camera |
Runtime: | 120 minutes (Mon-Fri, since 2018) |
Presenter: | Mark Austin (Monday-Thursday) Jonathan Samuels (Friday-Sunday) |
Opentheme: | Sky News theme |
Genre: | News |
Language: | English |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Network: | Sky News |
Last Aired: | present |
The News Hour with Mark Austin is a weekday news programme in the United Kingdom on Sky News, presented by Mark Austin. It combines rolling-news coverage with analysis and interviews on the day's issues. The show airs between 5 pm7 pm Monday to Sunday.
The News Hour was the name initially given to the 5pm hour of Sky News only with Sky News at Six following after, also presented by Austin. As of 2020, the 6 pm hour is branded as the News Hour at Six [1] [2] The show is broadcast as two distinctive hour long programmes with the days news summarised in each.
Mark Austin presents most Monday to Thursday programmes and occasionally hosts the show on Fridays, however, typically Jonathan Samuels presents most Friday and weekend editions.
The show is currently broadcast from the "Glass Box", actually Studio 21, Sky Central, Osterley.[3] but during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the show was presented live from Kyiv
Presenter | Role |
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Mark Austin | Monday-Thursday Presenter |
Friday-Sunday Presenter | |
Saima Mohsin | Relief Presenter |
Barbara Serra |