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Anyone remember Superchannel?

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    #32
    old hippy
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    I remember Superchannel showing Eastenders but they had to stop because of royalty rights. They also used to show Tom Baker era Doctor Who, iirc.


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    #33
    AnalogueKid
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    I remember the opening night of Super Channel. They had this amateurish launch with a nonplussed Maggie Thatcher as the celebrity to cut the ribbon - truly embarrassing.

    I always confuse early Super Channel and early Sky One. As far as I remember, Nino Ferretto was on Super Channel, whilst Pat Sharpe was on Sky (skytrax). Maybe Nino was also on Sky for a while.

    Another music show they had on Super was "On The Air" hosted by a cute German woman who used to play Rush videos (a rare thing on Irish TV in those days).

    Was Linda De Mol the shexy Dutch blonde on Sky who hosted the DJ Kat show? Kristiane Backer from MTV Europe a few years later was also one of my first crushes...... (drools)


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    #34
    icdg
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    AnalogueKid wrote: »
    Was Linda De Mol the shexy Dutch blonde on Sky who hosted the DJ Kat show?

    Linda de Mol did indeed host the DJ Kat Show on Sky Channel (the proto-Sky One). She is a sister of John de Mol, founder of Endemol Entertainment (responsible for unleashing Big Brother on the world) and producer of the DJ Kat Show up until Sky Television launched and production was moved to England.


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    #35
    Big Tone
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    Of course Superchannel was already on air before the official launch.


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    #36
    Snakeblood
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    bob50 wrote: »
    The Super Channel came on in 1987 it also started showing the american wrestling in Ireland for the first time

    Anyone remember Hulk Hogan The cowboy Randy Savage

    It also used to show pop ideos presented by the mullet wearing Pat Sharp


    Also it had an american fashion prog

    Wrestling and Pat Sharp were both on Sky, Super had the FunBus for kids programming and other bits and pieces.


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    #37
    kiwi_40
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    Super channel was great, as someone said, cablelink came in and brought us from 6 channels to 15 ish, super and sky being two of them. I remember Super use to have 3 music shows an hour each between midnight and 3.00am ,i was in college so use to stay up. Nino feretti was one and Amanda Reddington another, cant remember the third, I think it was Simon something, use have darts thrown at him. Was great for music videos etc


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    #38
    GhostyMcGhost
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    This thread is a bit retro


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    #39
    George White
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    WindSock wrote: »
    Some shots on this link

    http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/superchannel.html


    Does anyone remember a horror type film that was about a dolls house and there was green ooze in it? Whatever happened to the dolls house, happened to the main house too. I don't think it was ther Twilight Zone, but it may have been.
    Child's Play - an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense.


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    #40
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    I remember Superchannel. I remember I use to like Amazing Discoveries :pac: i think it was on Superchannel. It was tacky and pretty bad and so rehearsed with an awful phony and cheesy sales presenter. I don't know why but I liked it :/:)



    I also remember watching Bonanza on this channel for a while.



    We had Cablelink. I don't remember losing MTV but I do remember that Sky was not available in it for a year or two in the early 90s. We originally had Sky and that was where we found The Simpson's. I remember we knew that Sky was being removed from Cablelink before it went off and my brother started recording every episode of The Simpson's that he could before it went so we could watch them again.


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