Your Money, Australia’s new business, personal finance and luxury lifestyle channel, has launched on free-to-air channel 95 and Foxtel channel 601.
The channel is a partnership between News Corp’s Sky News Australia and Nine Entertainment Co. The re-branded Sky News Business is keeping many of the successful elements from the past decade while fusing its market coverage with a new evening schedule.
Your Money is promising viewers to be a 24/7 TV and digital destination for business news, personal finance information, in-depth real estate coverage and a raft of luxury and lifestyle programming.
Also see: Complete guide to next week’s launch of Your Money channel
The first day began with Business Breakfast at 6am with Leanne Jones and a collection of expert guests. The guests on day one included AMP Capital’s chief economist Dr Shane Oliver.
Trading Day: The Countdown followed at 9am with Ingrid Willinge with a setup of the local session before the channel’s blow-by-blow coverage of the Australian market begins at 10am with Trading Day: The Open.
From 11am through to 4pm, trading day coverage is hosted by Ingrid Willinge, James Daggar-Nickson and Adam Creighton.
As the market closes Your Money features Trading Day: The Final Count with James Daggar-Nickson as the Your Money team take a deep dive into the day’s big market movers and the major corporate stories.
The channel’s biggest changes then happen from 5pm with an earlier start for the flagship program Ticky as host Ticky Fullerton today will interview AFL chairman Richard Goyder following Saturday’s grand final.
Business reporter Leo Shanahan will examine the findings of the Financial Services Royal Commission’s first report, with analysis of what it could mean for banks, shareholders and customers.
Your Money’s big push for a primetime audience then begins with anchors Brooke Corte and Chris Kohler fronting Your Money Live, which debuts on tonight at 6pm. Over two and a half hours the program will traverse topics from shares and real estate to wine, cruising travel and how to deal with imposter syndrome. Guest on day one include Mark Bouris live in studio, Anna Porter from Suburbanite and Nine’s entertainment editor Richard Wilkins.
Peter Switzer is back in a new timeslot with a new show – Money Talks at 8:30pm. The series launches on today with a new 10-week segment, Portfolio Builder, where Switzer taps into the country’s top 10 fund managers for their best stock picks and investment strategies. Bell Direct’s Julia Lee joins Switzer each week in Sector Spotlight, an in-depth analysis of the most talked-about sectors in the market – discover how 36-year-old property millionaire Tim Gurner made his fortune.
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Top Photo: Your Money’s Brooke Corte, Chris Kohler and Ticky Fullerton