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Question about CableLink

  • 26-03-2004 7:20pm
    #1
    PK - the king
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭


    Hi

    I was just wondering if anybody could tell me (if anybody can remember!!!) what the CableLink line-up used to be. How many channels did they have? Did they have any scrambled analogue services like Vh1 and other satellite channels (other than Sky Sports/Movies)?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Originally posted by cableguy

    While Cablelink were around some channels came and went as posted above.
    Only sky sports\PPV \movies\Disney were scrambled. No other channels were broadcast scrambled. [/B]
    Actually as far as I can remember wasn't CNN scrambled?
    They had it for hotel use only.
    Strange but true.


  • #3
    celticfc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,884 Mod ✭✭✭✭celticfc


    Originally posted by Earthman
    Actually as far as I can remember wasn't CNN scrambled?
    They had it for hotel use only.
    Strange but true.

    Yep, IIRC it was.


  • #4
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Originally posted by Earthman
    Actually as far as I can remember wasn't CNN scrambled?
    They had it for hotel use only.
    Strange but true.


    Yes, but it tended to de-scramble for period, usually if one of the Movie/Sport chanell encoders had a problem, someone would nick the CNN encoder.

    Sometimes we had CNN for weeks...

    I staying in a hotel in Germany a while back, CNN was the only english language channel I had.

    I tended to watch the german news channels, it was more infomative and i don't even speak german..


  • #5
    cdc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭cdc


    Before Eurosport they had Screensport


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Well the earliest channel line-up (circa-1987) I can remember was...

    Basic:
    RTE 1
    RTE 2
    BBC 1
    BBC 2
    Ulster Television
    Channel 4
    Sky Channel
    Super Channel
    Lifestyle/Screensport
    The Children's Channel/Link
    MTV Europe

    Premium
    Prem1ere

    I don't ever remember Euronews being on NTL analogue, until TnaG started showing it that is.

    Sky News was added in 1990.
    Lifestyle closed, and was not replaced IIRC.
    When Screensport closed, it was initally not replaced.
    From 1992-1994, Sky One and Sky News were not broadcast because of a dispute between Sky and Cablelink. Their channels were not re-occupied during this time, and placeholders (like the infamous Multi-Image Channel) were broadcast instead. When they returned in 1994, TV5 and Eurosport were added also (Eurosport a few months later while Cablelink dittered as to whether or not to choose Sky Sports 2, which at that time only broadcast at weekends, instead). At one stage, Eurosport had been previously on Cablelink as a partially encrpypted channel, this may have been a test run or something though (it was during the era of the original Eurosport logo, if that helps).
    When TCC (the former Children's Channel) closed in 1998, Nickelodeon was added.
    When NBC Europe (the former Super) closed in 1998, CNBC and National Geographic were added.
    In 1999, what was then NTL CableTel took over Cablelink. Most changes after that are on the ICDG website.

    I'm unsure as to the timing of Prem1ere's closure and the addition of Sky Movies..


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