First Edition (Australian TV program)

First Edition
GenreNews, breakfast television, Current affairs
Presented byPeter Stefanovic (2019–present)
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsSydney
Canberra
Running time3 hours (inc. adverts)
Original release
NetworkSky News Australia
Release2002 (2002) –
present
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First Edition is an Australian breakfast television news program broadcast on Sky News Australia. The program is currently hosted by Peter Stefanovic. The program is one of five breakfast news programs in Australia, competing with Sunrise, Today and News Breakfast, along with sister-station program Sky News Breakfast.[1] The program airs seven days a week.[2]

The program is unusual for the fact from 2014[3] it was broadcast from two locations, with Jayes co-hosting from the Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park, and Gilbert hosting from studios in Parliament House, Canberra.[1] Additionally, the program also transitions into political commentary program AM Agenda at 8:30am AEST, which Gilbert hosted solo until October 2018, after which he was joined by Jayes.[4]

Weekend editions of the program were trimmed with the launch of Saturday Edition and Sunday Edition from 9 July 2016.[5] Amy Greenbank, Tom Connell and Leanne Jones have served as substitute anchors of the program.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b "New roles for Laura Jayes & Brooke Corte at Sky News". MediaWeek. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. ^ Knox, David (12 June 2013). "Terry Willesee resigns from SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  3. ^ Knox, David (17 March 2016). "Michael Willesee leaves SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference darwin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Paul Murray and PVO to work weekends too". MediaWeek. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  6. ^ Knox, David (20 January 2017). "Australia Day on SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  7. ^ Knox, David (21 April 2017). "SKY News: ANZAC Day". TV Tonight. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  8. ^ Knox, David (4 May 2017). "SKY News: Budget 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 4 May 2017.