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(August 2001)

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CA
cat
square eyes posted:
cheshirec posted:
Yep 1989 here too.
I can't remember not having Sky actually. Although I remember very little of the original Sky idents. Only the Sky Movies theme sounds familiar.
Although I remember all of the 1993 idents perfectly.


Oh come on, didn't you invent Sky ?


Well I wasn't going to say anything, but seen as you've brought the subject up...
MG
MikeG
I got Sky in 1996, then we ditched it in 2000 when many channels on analogue were finished. We didn't want to get digital.

But in 2001, after we had a Telewest phone and Internet put in - I'm using Blueyonder Surf Unlimited now - we had digital cable put in because it would only be £27 a month (plus calls) for all three!
IH
I Hate HTV West
cheshirec posted:
Yep 1989 here too.
I can't remember not having Sky actually. Although I remember very little of the original Sky idents. Only the Sky Movies theme sounds familiar.
Although I remember all of the 1993 idents perfectly.




Now, somewhere I had the original Sky One, Sky Movies and The Movie Channel idents ...

The Movie Channel one was ace ...
CA
cat
The Movie Channel ident was fantastic. I've got that in real video somewhere.
I've also got the old Sky Movies idents, which are, as I speak, being uploaded to my site.
I've also got the full music to Sky Movies 1989 and Sky News 1989. Fantastic.
IH
I Hate HTV West
'This is the Movie Channel, part of the British Sky Broadcasting network'

British Sky Broadcasting

Stereo
RY
ryan
I think we must've got Sky round about 1995/96 time. Although we did upgrade to Sky Digital in September last year.
CR
The Crowdman
My house got SkyDigital in August 1999. We were going to have ONdigital (as was), but we live in a poor reception area (the bottom of a hill... doh!) so had to go for Sky instead. ONd came + put a huge extra ariel on the back of our house and reception was actually worse from that one... we had it taken down and it's still lying across our garden now! But I prefer SkyD anyway, it's better value for money (more channels).
BH
BillyH Founding member
Well I got cable on Wednesday 30th September 1998. A few months before the Childrens Channel closed down I think. We had it free! Or was the 'The Christrian channel'?
IT
itsrobert Founding member
I first got Sky in 1992/1993, when I moved to me current house. I got Sky Digital last September.

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