Dead Channels

Don't torture me I used to LOVE that program and channel Remember on thursdays they had a 'gamer' expert on the panel and I checked and EVERY time I watched no matter what the 'game' related question was he came the same answer ''download the latest patch and drivers for your graphics card''

Rapture's still going! Isn't it?

Not at the moment, it will return fully though this summer.

Before then, they'll be timesharing with The Musicians Channel on 475, that should start within the next couple of weeks.

The Box used to be Cable only, but it managed for a bit to sneak onto Granada Plus from 2.00am until 7.00am, until 1999 or so. Music Box disappeared in the late 1980's thanks to Super Channel, which later became NBC Europe.

As for Sky Sports I think that was just a simple rebrand and an excuse to get more new ouput onto Gold, as before 1996 it was simply: Sky Sports, Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports Gold, but they changed to become Sky Sports 1-3, and 3 still carried alot of Gold for a few years.

Though these didn't cease, their names got the axe, Sky Movies, The Movie Channel, Sky Movies Gold, Sky Movies Screen 1 & 2, Sky Premier and Sky Moviemax.

EBN (European Business News) merged with CNBC in January 1998, but it was more of a CNBC takeover. For us EBN used to have it's own channel (Ch 21 for 24 hours a day), but they shifted it onto Bravo from 6.00am until 12.00pm until it disappeared a few months later.

Sky Two and Granada Talk TV both disappeared on the same day, but due to Princess Diana's death they both had rather quiet exits.

Carlton's channels didn't seem too bad at the time, but most of them were only available via On Digital, which never would have worked. Carlton Select had built up it's grounds on the old SelecTV service, Carlton Food Network then took up the Daytime slot on that channel. Carlton Cinema didn't have a bad choice of films, but it was only available on Cable by it's demise, as was The Studio, brilliant film channel, as it had Universal's archive, it also had many home grown programmes, but didn't work due to the fact it was only available on NTL.

The peak of Sky was in the mid to late 1990's, when channels were coming and going and sharing. I remember there was one channel which had this.....

The Christian Channel (now God) 4.00am-7.00am Daily
Sky Travel 7.00am-12.00pm Weekdays
Sky Soap 12.00pm-4.00pm Weekdays
The History Channel 4.00pm-8.00pm Weekdays
Sky Sports 2 8.00pm-1.00am Thursdays/Fridays, 7.00am-1.00am Weekends
The Sci-Fi Channel 8.00pm-4.00am Monday-Wednesday, 1.00am-4.00am Thursday-Sunday

Nice and simple!

bbc3/CBBC
bbc4/cebeebies

Well it is really, when you look at it.

I really miss Granada Plus aswell (but I know the story there its become ITV3)

Netherlands:
TV10
TV10 Gold
FOX
V8
Euro7
Sport7
Kindernet
SkyChannel
Supersport
Sportnet

Channels that were planned but never appeared:
Sky Music
Veronica 2
ID&T

I would like to announce the death of MTV Dance's claim it's a dance music channel - all they ever seem to play these days is R 'n' B or Hip Hop, Carmen Electra or that bloody Wade Robson Shakedown thing.... GOD, it's crap....

WNAC-TV Boston.

The owners (RKO-General) were stripped of the license by the FCC because of mismanagement. The license was awarded to another company with new call letters WNEV-TV. The station was affiliated with ABC then CBS, and now the current licensee is a NBC affiliate.

The Landscape Channel mentioned earlier in this thread is still going strong in Europe and has a comprehensive website about their music and videos etc. at
http://www.landscapetv.com/uk/index.html
The following is taken from their first page: -
THE WINDOW ON THE WORLD
The Landscape Channel is the world's greatest relaxing classical and instrumental music television channel, available in Europe, broadcasting up to 24 hours a day on cable television in the Netherlands and Germany. Landscape is available to all television viewers connected to cable networks either as the original Landscape Channel or as a Branded Network. The Channel operates a philosophy aimed at a specific target viewer and guided by the concepts incorporated in the Book of Life.

...and almost every product they recommended was 'No.7' cosmetics (purely coincidentally of course)!