When Sky One first arrived.

jiltloop

I heard this song the other day (fantastic song too)

And it reminded me of when we first got Sky One on our tv (just normal cable tv), I seem to remember this song be played over and over with the video and then loads of episodes of the green hornet before they got a proper program schedule going. Does this ring a bell with anyone else or am I crazy?

anbrutog

jiltloop wrote: »

I heard this song the other day (fantastic song too)

And it reminded me of when we first got Sky One on our tv (just normal cable tv), I seem to remember this song be played over and over with the video and then loads of episodes of the green hornet before they got a proper program schedule going. Does this ring a bell with anyone else or am I crazy?

Ah yes!! Remember it well , around 87 88. Came with this other channel called the 'Super' channel. Both were pretty much wall to wall music videos. ( apart from DJ Kat in the mornings! )

Also remember both channels being full of Dutch ads , think they both were based in Amsterdam or something
Loved the Pat Sharpe phone in video request show where he had this guy called Ronnie who had to go and find the video ( and put it in the machine !! ) of the person who rang in. Quality tv.

jiltloop

Hurray! I'm not crazy so! Yeah I remember DJ Kat very well. Remember the phone in game "left left left left right right right!" I used to be shouting at the TV, those stoopid kids getting it wrong.

Pipy

lol

anbrutog

anbrutog wrote: »

Ah yes!! Remember it well , around 87 88. Came with this other channel called the 'Super' channel. Both were pretty much wall to wall music videos. ( apart from DJ Kat in the mornings! )

Also remember both channels being full of Dutch ads , think they both were based in Amsterdam or something

Yep, a lot of the schedule was made up of Sky Trax. They were based in London but they had a sales office in Amsterdam.

Here's some Sky Channel presentation from June 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV7ehvIlgas

jiltloop wrote: »

Hurray! I'm not crazy so! Yeah I remember DJ Kat very well. Remember the phone in game "left left left left right right right!" I used to be shouting at the TV, those stoopid kids getting it wrong.

I was on it. Was one of the last contestants actually. DJ Kat didn't last much longer, was only a couple of weeks before the end.

xper

Karsini wrote: »

Yep, a lot of the schedule was made up of Sky
Here's some Sky Channel presentation from June 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV7ehvIlgas

Pfffft ... that's arguably a better line up than most evenings on Sky 1 now!

bullets

Sky replaced super channel that was tuned into button number 7 in our house.

I really liked super channel.

Early Sky was great as it had stuff on it really late at night.
I was a little old for the cartoons on the DJ Cat show if
I remember correctly but watched them all the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DJ_Kat_Show
The Co-Presenter I thought looked Hot! when I was growing up but she does not look so great now looking back on it.

~B

silverharp

Hogan's heroes popped into my head

Ruu_Old

Not really, but I remember the short lived Sky 2, had an X-Files marathon.

Professey Chin

Ruu wrote: »

Not really, but I remember the short lived Sky 2, had an X-Files marathon.

I hated that when it started.I didnt have it and the feckin thing had the new x-files,the new star trek voyager and the poltergeist series!(which was muck but you gotta watch them all one after the other)

corblimey

This is the only thing I can remember from the early days of Sky 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zj6g5N-HUc

I thought I used to fancy the hostess, and it was the only reason I watched it, but looking at it now, she's a bit of a munter, so I dunno.

r3nu4l

silverharp wrote: »

Hogan's heroes popped into my head

I used to love Hogan's Heroes

DJ Kat was great simply because they showed Transformers from Episode 1 onwards, I loved that show.

This brings back a lot of memories, including the aforementioned super channel. I remember being barred from watching it after the Herald ran a story about the channel showing 'porn'...in the form of 'Confessions of a window cleaner' :rolleyes: Thankfully, I was allowed to watch Sky 1.

we'llallhavetea_old

i used to watch this in my nighty with a big bowl of sugary cornflakes before school in the mornin

nkay1985

It's funny - I still consider Sky a "new" channel!

I would never consider it in the same light as the RTEs, BBCs and ITV etc beacuse we have all those when I first watched tv. In reality, we probably got Sky within a couple of years of me being aware of television but I still, to this day, think of it as being new!

larchielads

does anyone remember when we lost sky 1 for a few years......oh the heartache!!! then remember hearing on the radio one day when i was getting my haircut in the barbers that it was on the way back oh the joys of it all used to love watching melrose place there was some women in that!!!

seanybiker

larchielads wrote: »

does anyone remember when we lost sky 1 for a few years.....oh the heartache!!! then remember hearing on the radio one day when i was getting my haircut in the barbers that it was on the way back oh the joys of it all used to love watching melrose place there was some women in that!!!

jaysus I remember that alright. Me mother telling me that we where losing sky, took me a second or two to cop on she meant the channel.

larchielads

larchielads wrote: »

does anyone remember when we lost sky 1 for a few years......oh the heartache!!! then remember hearing on the radio one day when i was getting my haircut in the barbers that it was on the way back oh the joys of it all used to love watching melrose place there was some women in that!!!

Yep, was gone from Cablelink in Dublin from mid 1992 until March 1994. I'd assume it was gone in Galway and Waterford too?

gipi

On a slight tangent....Sky News is 21 years old tomorrow, 5th February!

anewme

Super Channel brings back memories allright.

Remember there was a talent show on Sky every afternoon. Sky Star Search with Keith Chegwin. It was on at about half four. We used to race home from School to watch it. My Dad was out of work and he would have the fire lighting in winter and then we would all sit around watching this with a bowl of stew!

Who can forget the guy who could not get out of the sack?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnlSLlnO5rw&feature=related

Or Monty the worst juggler ever?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppl5C1JEY4E

We loved the fact that their laughter was genuine.

They were real talent shows in them days!

popebenny16

sky in the 80's (pre simpsons sky) always made me think of vast amounts of chips done in the pan and my brothers so-called omelettes. (basically a few eggs he fried together in a pan)

this was how it worked: I dream of Jeanie (chips on) Hogan's Heroes (eat vast amount of chips and eggs) then the Paul Hogan Show (post pig out doze and all i can remember was laughing at the way if someone got hurt thay had doctors with fire extingushers to put them out)

for some reason my brother went up to 21 stone during this period.

I also rememebr that Super Channell used to show a lot of old Doctor Who and Blakes Seven shows too (and look where they got me...)

and while i am at it.............


i would like the register my distaste at fate for allowing Davina McCall to be the successfull one from those MTV days and not Ray Cokes, whos like evening show was proabably the best entertainment every played out on that station.

Where is he now??? (Cue someone posting some link to wiki or something...)

Slideshowbob

Interesting

the guy behing DJ Kat went on to form Endemol - the Big Brother people

he's a billionaire now!

nkay1985

popebenny16 wrote: »

Where is he now??? (Cue someone posting some link to wiki or something...)

Well, if nobody else is going to do it. Link.