The key facts

  • Sky said it received a security threat and carried out an assessment, with the report passed to the authorities
  • RTE earlier evacuated its building after a threat attributed to the same group behind the flight threats
  • The wave of threats has affected passenger flights across Europe over the past week

Sky security threat and RTE evacuation

British broadcaster Sky, owned by the American company Comcast, said on Friday that it had received a security threat. According to Anadolu, Sky said it was among several media organizations that received such a threat. In a statement read out by a Sky News presenter, the company said it had carried out a security assessment and reported the incident to the relevant authorities.

Link to flight threats

A few hours earlier, Ireland's national broadcaster RTE evacuated its building after a bomb threat. According to RTE, the threat against its premises was claimed to have come from the same group believed to be behind a series of bomb threats targeting passenger flights across Europe this week. Sky's statement came amid this wave of threats that has affected European aviation.