To questions from BuzzFeed News, Frangopoulos and Credlin confirmed the former political operative has been given her own office at the network.



“We gave her an office so she could have a Sydney work base as she had been travelling extensively from Canberra and Melbourne," Frangopoulos said.

The ever-expanding role of Credlin has been occurring as “Australia’s news network” invests heavily in opinion programming on weekday evenings.



From 7pm Monday to Thursday the channel now airs five straight hours of predominantly right wing talk, beginning with News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt and ending with News Corp columnist Chris Kenny. Bolt also has a show on Fridays.

Sandwiched between, right wing commentator Paul Murray hosts a two-hour show Monday to Thursday, while remaining hours are shared on different nights between the likes of right wing commentators Peter Reith and Alan Jones, and the more moderate voices of Speers, Peter Beattie and Nicholas Reece. Credlin makes appearances across all the shows. The updated schedule comes after Sky News was fully acquired by News Corp at the end of 2016.

The recent behaviour of the network’s “shock jocks”, who are openly urging defections to other right wing parties, led to ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry suggesting that there was a "Foxification" going on at the influential news channel.

"There’s long been talk of the Foxification of Sky News," Barry said last week. "Since News Corp took full ownership in December it’s been looking and sounding more and more like it’s famous American counterpart, especially in the evenings, when its conservative commentators are often in furious agreement."



BuzzFeed News has spoken to a dozen current and former Sky News presenters and reporters about what’s happening behind the scenes at the network, and the changing face of its late-night coverage. They spoke on the condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to speak publicly about the news network.

“It’s like Frankenstein’s monster comes out after 7pm - it’s big and ugly enough that you can tell the difference to what’s going on during the day,” said a long-term Sky News presenter.