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(January 2005)

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CE
Chris E Founding member
A few more:

Mirror Vision
Prem1ere
Wire TV (Became L!VE TV)
CNE - Chinese News and Entertainment
VH1 Germany (used to share with Nick UK in 94/95, Replaced by MTV2 Germany)
Sky Sports Gold
Sky Soap
JF
JFC On The Web
Chris E posted:
A few more:

Mirror Vision
Prem1ere
Wire TV (Became L!VE TV)
CNE - Chinese News and Entertainment
VH1 Germany (used to share with Nick UK in 94/95, Replaced by MTV2 Germany)
Sky Sports Gold
Sky Soap


Sky Sports Gold was just renamed Sky Sports 3 wasn't it?

I'm just curious, but was the channel The Box formaly Music Box?
IS
Inspector Sands
eddyh posted:
Wellbeing website url has been brought by Boots


Not quite, Boots were involved in the channel.
CE
Chris E Founding member
JFC On The Web posted:


I'm just curious, but was the channel The Box formaly Music Box?


The Box was a seperate channel to Music Box. I think Music Box had already closed when The Box launched on cable in the early 90's.

Not sure about the Sky Sports Gold/3 situation.
JO
Johnny83
BBC Choice ====> BBC Three
BBC Knowledge ====> BBC Four
Carlton / LWT ====> ITV 1 (London) - also applies to other regions.
CBM ====> Freeview Channel that Never Came on air.
ITV Sport Channel
ITV Select
BSB Now
BSB The Power Station
BSB Galaxy
BSB The Sports Channel
BSB Movie Channel - The Movie Channel
JO
jonniew
What about Sky Scottish?

Jonnie Very Happy
DM
Dave M
J0nn13 posted:
What about Sky Scottish?

Jonnie Very Happy


Sky Scottish was a joint venture between Sky and Scottish Television and was mean to showcase the best of Scottish Televison programmes, news and sport across the UK. It launched on 1st November 1996 and closed in June 1998 due to poor viewing figures.

Other dead channels include:

Tara TV
Simply Money
The Money Channel
S2
Carlton Cinema
Carlton Select (SelecTV)
Carlton Food Network
Carlton Kids
Carlton World
The Weather Channel
HVC
JO
jonniew
Dave M posted:


Sky Scottish was a joint venture between Sky and Scottish Television and was mean to showcase the best of Scottish Televison programmes, news and sport across the UK. It launched on 1st November 1996 and closed in June 1998 due to poor viewing figures.

Other dead channels include:

Tara TV
Simply Money
The Money Channel
S2
Carlton Cinema
Carlton Select (SelecTV)
Carlton Food Network
Carlton Kids
Carlton World
The Weather Channel
HVC


S2 changed to ITV2

Jonnie Very Happy
BI
bigitup_j
The Studio is another dead channel. it was a joint venture between ntl and universal. but it was only available on ntl digital (1.2m subs), and it didn't make it on any other platform. it closed after about 2 years.
it was actually the best non-premium movie channel
DM
Dave M
Few more dead channels:

Channel Health
Simply Nature
Simply Nostalgia
Rapture
Wherits.at
Einstein.tv
Shop America
Channel East
Lashkara
Gurjari
Anjuman
U>Direct
Automotive Channel
Inspiration
Magazine Channel
MBI Europe
JO
Johnny83
TV You / UTV 2
SC
SirCalgary
Well, on this side of the Atlantic (I'm closer to the Pacific, here's what I can remember off the top of my head:

Canada:
-WTSN(an all female sports channel. Not enough subscribers, so it was shut down in 2003)
-The Green Channel
-New County Network(renamed CMT Canada. Same channel position carried CMT America earlier)

America:
-FNN(merged with CNBC)
-Bravo HD+(became Universal HD)

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