[1] In 2013, ANC granted A$20 million in funding to Sky News Australia to be used over three years.

[3] It was launched after ANC bid to operate the Australian Government funded Australia Network contract, before the tender was controversially scrapped.

It lost the contract to MediaWorks and subsequently ceased broadcasting a local New Zealand bulletin.

[5] With the carriage deal between Australian News Channel and dominant subscription television platform Foxtel due to expire in 2017, reported as either February[6] or December,[7] media speculation increased that News Corp Australia, which co-owns Foxtel, would attempt to acquire a majority stake in the company.

[1][10] In December 2017, it was reported that News Corp and Telstra were in a carriage dispute over the price Foxtel pays to carry Sky News channels after the existing deal expired at the end of the calendar year, worth over A$30 million per year.