Sky News launched as a 24-hour news channel on the Sky pay-TV platform on Sunday 5 February 1989 in Britain and quickly grew over the past two decades as pay-TV services around the world, such as MultiChoice's DStv, added Sky News to its bouquet of channels.
Last month Sky News announced that it's opening a news bureau in Los Angeles with its US correspondent Greg Milam as the news channel expands its American coverage.
Sky News over the past 24 years gave extensive coverage of international stories such as Kosovo, the death of Princess Diana and in South Africa, the terrorist attacks on America and New York on 9/11, and covering the end of apartheid and the release of Nelson Mandela.
As a celebration of its 24th birthday, Sky News has produced and released this special 24th birthday promo with brief snippets of the stories and events the news channel has covered the past 24 years on the air:
