It launched on 1 October 1998 as Sky sports news. The channel was relaunched by SSN as Sky Sports com TV to tie with skysports.com website. It exposed its .com TV look on 1 July 2001. The TV station also makes significant changes in the graphics, its slogan and focus on news. The channel changed the old wooden bench with a silver look from April 2002 and prominent with breaking news first and useful information. Sky sports news replaced its look with blue in 2004.The channel previously uses different music for each news program. It re-branded as Sky Sports News HQ on 12 August 2014 and its new studio was right with 18 square meter video wall. When it moved to channel 401, it also got new graphics.

It’s launched on Sky Channel 455 on 23 August 2010 but transfer to channel 405 after some month. Its HD channel presents wider screen and new graphics. Now Ed Chamberlin produced a regular live Sunday afternoon sports update. Sky sports news was available on digital terrestrial TV from 2002. On 1 March 2007, Virgin Media removed the sky sports news and its other channels from their television service. On 13 November 2008 deal was made between Virgin and Sky and Sky sports news returning to their platform on channel 517.

Programming

It produced different sports programs on morning and late night. It produced soccer special on weekends and much midweek football special. On entire week they broadcast many live sports events, sports news. You can say it is a great channel for football lovers.