FoxSportsNews launched on October 1 2006. The channel runs live for 19 hours a day, broadcasting sports news. Initially, for 6 hours a day (midnight - 6am AEST) the channel would broadcast Sky Sports News live from the UK, similar to the set-up of Australian News channel Sky News Australia. Now this timeslot is occupied by FoxSportsNews Overnight which runs a loop of the news of the day beginning at 1am AEST.