Kay Burley
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Burley in 2009
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Kay Burley 17 December 1960 Wigan, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | TV-am, Sky News |
Kay Burley (born 17 December 1960) is an English television newsreader and presenter. She has been a news anchor for Sky News since 1988.
Burley has hosted more hours of live television than any other news presenter.
Burley was brought up in Beech Hill, Wigan, Lancashire and was raised as a Catholic.
Her first reporting job was at the Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan at the age of 17.
Burley worked in BBC local radio and TV, including Tyne Tees Television, before joining TV-am in 1985 as a reporter and occasional newsreader. From 1987, she presented TV-am's first hour, filling in for Caroline Righton and covering for Anne Diamond during her maternity leave.
Burley was recruited by Andrew Neil, and joined Sky Television, launching the Sky One Entertainment Channel in November 1988 with her own documentary The Satellite Revolution. She moved to the fledgling Sky News in 1988.
Among her assignments, she fronted Sky News coverage from Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In 2005, she was prominent in Sky News's coverage of both the General Election and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, and in 2013 was prominent in the coverage of the birth of Prince George of Cambridge.
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