Sky Television Multi-Channel Package

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Sky One or Sky Channel as it was known as in 1989 is older than you think and goes back a few years prior to the 1989 Sky TV launch.[/quote

Started as Satellite Television in 1982 and was then taken over and rebranded as Sky Channel in 1984 by some guy called Murdoch. There were some great early clips uploaded onto You Tube not so long ago from those days.. I say great..

Edit: Just found one of the clips here others can be found via it.

Yeh I'm aware of that, although IIRC when Sky turned 10 in 1999 they said Sky One was celebrating 10 years on air, and to be fair the channel picked up in terms of content from 1989 and from then onwards it was more specifically aimed for a British audience. I think Sky Channel launched as Satellite Television in 1982, how things change.



Well the same could be said there aswell, people who had the money had it, and those who loved their TV got it aswell. But I remember alot at the time who simply wouldn't go for it, as the Satellite dishes were too big and that it wasn't worth paying for trash. I only knew one person who had Sky and a couple on Cable, although that started picking up when Digital TV launched from 1998 onwards.

As someone who first saw Sky in May 1988, it seemed quite epic. A fifth TV channel. And the programmes were similar to Sky One when that name debuted.
I have fond memories of Sky Trax. It was Sky's answer to MTV. A lot of the programming was shown from other channels: The Untouchables [ITV] The Man From Atlantis [ITV] Family Ties [ITV] and that is all I can think of on top of my head.
Sky was better whan you had the 5 channels at most. Less is more.

What satellite (or cable?) channels were around then before Sky launched?

The Childrens Channel, Prem1ere, Bravo, Lifestyle, Screensport, MTV Europe and Super Channel were well established before Sky launched on Astra. Prem1ere closed down mid-1989, the rest of the channels with the exception moved onto Astra not too long after Sky launched.

only Bravo and MTV Europe have stayed the 20 years , were there on the old BSB? what ever it was called?

Nope, BSB only had room for 5 channels and they were all of BSB's, here's what happened to them...

Galaxy - got merged with Sky One
Now - got merged with Sky News
The Power Station - BSkyB pulled the plug on it and decided to back MTV instead, on BSB they replaced it with Sky Movies.
The Sports Channel - became Sky Sports in April 1991.
The Movie Channel - stayed the same until it became Sky Movies Screen 2 in 1997, the rest being history from then onwards.

BSkyB offically removed themselves from the platform in Early 1992.

The Children's Channel is now Trouble.

Actually, Trouble started as a separate programming block on Bravo, and when TCC closed some of its programming moved to Trouble, which - eventually - became its own channel.

I thought BSKYB still own the platforms?? althourgh there change the name to Sky only

while were at it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Sky_viewing_figures.png

this say there rating are going down!!

and this say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Satellite_Broadcasting

Granada Television, and Anglia Television help set up the company, do I take it there sold there states when it became Bskyb?

The shareholders in BSB and the shareholders of Sky at the time of merger became 50/50 shareholders of BSkyB.

A few years later it was floated on the stock exchange and all the shareholdings changed then. Not sure about Granada and Anglia, but Pearson had a stake in BSkyB for a few years, they also had a stake in Astra