Satellite TV 1985

cheers for the information, hopeful TV Ark will be able to sort out some of the minor errors soon, I get the feeling another email will be on the way

Intelsat VA-F11 at 27.5w and Eutelsat 1-F1 at 13e could be picked up by a 90cm dish.

Here is a manual of a dish of mine from the time period

thanks for the info I was only keen to know as when looking through satelitte tv magazines like satellite tv times and satellite tv europe of listings of channels on the other satellites as we onlyhad astra 60cm dishwe never really subscribed when sky went fully encrypted just watching foreign channels especially the wrestling on DSF & RTL 2

Link to the first What Satellite from 1986

Cheers for that link, is the only the first issues uploaded? I wonder why there no mention of the Home video Channel.

Interesting link! Their description of CNN was certainly right on the mark:

"Ted Turner's 24 hour news channel. Intended for European news agencies and the SMATV market, CNN offers half-hourly updates on major news stories as well as finance and entertainments coverage. Broadcast from Atlanta in the U.S., it's also the only genuine slice of Americana available in Europe by satellite. A taste of the global communications to come, perhaps?"

I remember when my family first got CNNI in 1990. At a time when television choice in much of Europe was still very limited, CNN was like a breath of fresh, cosmopolitan air. With the advent of the Internet and digital TV, the global nature of today's information society is usually taken for granted, but that wasn't the case just over two decades ago.

But what's this?! From the "Also receivable" section:

"World Public News (Eutelsat 1). European news service inspired by Ted Turner's CNN station. Transmits for 8 hours daily primarily in English."

The listing seems to indicate that this channel actually existed, but a Google search returns no hits. Did it ever launch? If so, did it produce its own news or did it -- as the word "public" in its name could imply -- just rebroadcast the news from Europe's various public service broadcasters?

a video I made a few years back using youtube clips of satellite channel idents and intros I put them into a compilation
part 1
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=3596d802ffd0597c4383ec&skin_id=701&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

part 2
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=56277b6aa8905903ea32a1&skin_id=701&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

WW Update, WPN seemed to have timed shared with FilmNet,

It seem Home video Channel was owned by Premier, Somewhere between 1989 - 1995 it may have changed ownership, but im not sure.

Wonderful post. Sounds like quite a choice. One question, was teleclub broadcast in the clear?

I remember when we first had cable TV in the mid-late 80s one of the guys who worked there mentioned that HVC sent the tapes of the movies to them along with a schedule to broadcast direct from the cable headend. I'm not sure if there was any truth to it but it may explain why there was no mention of the channel in early satellite magazines.