Reporting Live

This article is about the Australian news programme formerly known as NewsNight. For the UK news programme of the same title, see Newsnight.

Reporting Live
Title card of Reporting Live
Also known as
  • NewsNight
  • Reporting LIVE with Stan Grant
GenreNews, current affairs, commentary
Presented byStan Grant
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
Production
Running time1 hour (2013 – May 2015)
2 hours (June 2015 – 2016)
1 hour (2016–present)
(all inc. adverts)
Original release
NetworkSky News Australia
Release28 January 2013 (2013-01-28) –
21 April 2016 (2016-04-21) (enters hiatus)
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Reporting Live (sometimes stylised as Reporting LIVE with Stan Grant and formerly known as NewsNight) is an Australian television news and commentary program broadcast four times weekly on Sky News Australia. Hosted by Sky News international editor Stan Grant, it first premiered as NewsNight on 28 January 2013 at 11 pm AEST, with a focus on international affairs.[1] The program covers a range of news, as well as interviews conducted by Grant, with a "special focus on world affairs and in particular the Asian region".[1][2]

The program rebranded as Reporting Live from 20 January 2014 and moved to the earlier timeslot of 6 pm AEST, competing against networked Seven News and Nine News bulletins in the timeslot.[3] It returned for a third season in 2015[4] and was expanded to two hours in duration from 1 June 2015, following the move of PVO NewsHour from the 7 pm AEST timetslot.[5]

The program returned for a fourth season in 2016, but was reduced to a single hour to accommodate the launch of The Latest with Laura Jayes launching at 7pm AEST.[6] Grant took extended leave from Sky News in March, with Jim Middleton and Helen Dalley among those filling in as anchor.

It was subsequently announced that Reporting Live would go on hiatus from May 2016, later brought forward to late April.[7] The Latest took over the timeslot, itself moved to accommodate the relaunch of The Bolt Report.[8] It was reported that Grant was "winding back his duties" at Sky News in August 2016, suggesting the program may not return.[9]

The program is broadcast from the Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park.

  1. ^ a b Knox, David (3 December 2012). "Stan Grant joins SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Connect: Sky News Team". Sky News. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Aden Young delivers fiery response to critics of his slow-burning series Rectify". The Sunday Telegraph. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Sky News rebrands main channel". Mumbrella. 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Sky News expands roles of PVO and Stan Grant". MediaWeek. 20 May 2015. Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  6. ^ "New roles for Laura Jayes & Brooke Corte at Sky News". Mediaweek. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. ^ Perry, Kevin (21 March 2016). "Andrew Bolt confirmed for new nightly show on Sky News". Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  8. ^ Knox, David (21 March 2016). "The Bolt Report shifting to SKY News". TV Tonight. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ^ Davidson, Darren (29 August 2016). "Stan could be the man for Nine's 60 Minutes". The Australian. Retrieved 1 September 2016.(subscription required)