SKY NEWS TURNS 24 years old today.

Here’s the news channel’s first promo back in 1989, featuring all the original presenters:

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And here are  just 9 of the reasons why we love Sky News…

1. Your onscreen ticker

2. Eamon Holmes

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3. The time Charlotte Hawkins got trapped in her dressing room and Eamon Holmes told everyone

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4. Kay Burley’s gaffes

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5. The changing face of Political Editor Adam Boulton

Fresh-faced (Sky News)

Veteran-faced (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

There he is in a pancake race with the Labour MP Stephen Pound in 2011. The shoes let you down Adam (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

6. How brilliant Alex Crawford is

She reported live from Tripoli last August with a MacBook and a cigarette lighter socket.

7. The time Conrad Black told Adam Boulton to stop being a jackass

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8. This story about Snoop Dogg and a Welsh farmer

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9. The time Adam Boulton lost it with Alastair Campbell

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