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SKY TV nostalgia

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    #2
    lgs 4
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    Yes back in the day when sky was good value tv . Now its ripping people off with gimmicks and channels that are really just box sets on tv. Thank god for Freesat HD and FTA channels on Astra 1 (19e) and Hotbird (13e) in English .


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    Chris_Bradley
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    Use to love that music Super Sunday had in the early to mid 90's - "Here we go".... then the two clubs badges would smash into each other.

    All very boring now


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    Elmo
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    Sky One had achieved a 9% share of the Irish audience at one point in its early years. There is a Thesis in DCU by Noel Curran (former RTE DG) with the audience share, 9% is massive just shows how by the early 1990s cable was widespread in RoI.


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    _Kaiser_
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    Chris_Bradley wrote: »
    Use to love that music Super Sunday had in the early to mid 90's - "Here we go".... then the two clubs badges would smash into each other.

    All very boring now

    Ahh yes I remember it well:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXzES95zAA


    Then there was this...

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


    1993-95 was the golden age for Sky Sports intros though:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Ejze5JTGA



    I remember when they had a falling out with Cablelink over carriage fees (if I recall rightly) which resulted in the loss of Sky One, News and others for over a year... disaster it was as back then they actually had great shows on One!


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    #6
    _Kaiser_
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    OK one more because now I'm missing the good old days when Sky was not only good value but had a premium feel for the extra cash...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2SuIXXRJjw


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    Jimbob1977
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    Lost in Space

    Pat Sharp and the 'Run Ronnie Run' competition

    A steamy Australian soap called 'Chances'

    Star Trek non-stop

    Dream Team.... brilliant in Season One. Story lines became ridiculous. An assassination at Wembley!!!!


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    _Kaiser_
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Lost in Space

    Pat Sharp and the 'Run Ronnie Run' competition

    Ah you're back as far as the mid-80s there when there was just one Sky Channel

    Remember it well though.. we were living in Holland for a few years and it was on the local cable network with BBC and ITV . Back then there were a lot of classic American 50s/60s stuff on Sky - Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, Green Acres, The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants

    Plus at the weekends they had the Fun Factory with 4/5 hours of cartoons - Transformers, MASK, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors etc.. no being stuck with RTE and Bosco for me :p

    Ahh, good times! :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    I loved The Time Tunnel as a child,steered me towards an interest in history!


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    lgs 4
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    Super Channel Screensport


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    #11
    Chris_Bradley
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    Those idents on Sky from 93-95 were very well made & I honestly don't think they've ever been bettered


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    Gonzo
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    early days of Sky/Astra 1 were the best. The thing I miss the most about Sky since the early 2000s is the whole pan-european there was back then.

    MTV Ray Cokes Most Wanted:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjz1FUiTMg

    MTV Headbangers Ball Intro:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94CUPSgmKs

    Early days of Sky Movies:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGm6KzwCOQ

    Eurosport:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDWW2PawbE

    Filmnet:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOyDWs0YaE

    Satellite TV today is so bland and boring compared to the good old days.


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    _Kaiser_
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    Gonzo wrote: »
    Early days of Sky Movies:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGm6KzwCOQ

    When you saw this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1sijJnT-k


    or this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kuDnxu27Q


    You felt that it was something special, premium.. worth the extra cash.
    I still vividly remember when Cablelink had a free weekend on and Die Hard was the feature (I also remember it scrambling at midnight for a minute or two before they copped the movie wasn't over!)

    I also remember watching Red Heat on an early test with a very poor quality analogue signal.

    Good times for sure! :)


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    mansize
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    Christ they really knew how to dress mutton up as lamb!


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    I reember the lifetime channel for women and screen sport used to come on after it in the evenings. Then there was country music channel cmt the weather channel which was one of my favourite channels. Also you had the childrens channel long before nickelodeon and all other childrens channels. Then outside of Sky if you could pick up a dmac encryption box which are now obselete you could pick up TV1000, TV1000 movies, Filmnet and the TV 3 channels from Norway , Sweden and Denmark. They were the good old days and all on the same dish.


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    Gonzo
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    Julius Massive Tuxedo wrote: »
    I reember the lifetime channel for women and screen sport used to come on after it in the evenings. Then there was country music channel cmt the weather channel which was one of my favourite channels. Also you had the childrens channel long before nickelodeon and all other childrens channels. Then outside of Sky if you could pick up a dmac encryption box which are now obselete you could pick up TV1000, TV1000 movies, Filmnet and the TV 3 channels from Norway , Sweden and Denmark. They were the good old days and all on the same dish.

    When we first bought Satellite back in 1990 we were getting it for 'Sky', at the time we didn't know that it would also include several European channels, the guy in the shop tried to sell us a Filmnet decoder instead of us trying to get Sky Movies and he nearly had my dad convinced this was a good move until the other guy at the till said 'there is no guarantee that box will work forever' and we left the box back and got a regular satellite box and ordered the sky movies videocrypt decoder from Sky.


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    mansize
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    I remember the Promo for Sky Sports 2
    I think you should see this-
    I think you should see this too!


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    The first time I saw Sky tv was when I was working in the Uk. Down the road from where I lived was a TV shop and when Sky launched I used to go in and the guy in the shop would show me the reciever and the small dish. A couple of weeks later I returned home and spotted the same set up in my local TV shop. I bought the dish and the reciever. It cost me £500 a lot of money back then. At the time Sky movies was free and didn't start until 2pm. My neighbours all called round and were amazed at the amount of channels you could watch. The make of my reciever was alba and cold only store 16 channels most of them german..


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    Chris_Bradley
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    Use to go down the pub with my mate's dad for the first couple of seasons of the Premier League - I remember going home to my Ma & Da and begging for it for all that time & eventually they gave in!!

    We had it via Cablelink, Cryptovision box I think it was.

    Sky Sports then eventually Sky Sports 2

    The Movie Channel

    Sky Movies

    Sky Movies Gold

    All the other channels like RTE, BBC, Sky One etc

    Bizarrely they gave us CNN on the box but any new box we ever got that service would only work for 2 weeks or so then scramble.

    All my mates use to come around and watch the game, felt like I was the king of the world hahaha.

    Also, remember getting the first ever PPV on Box Office, think it was Bruno v Tyson 2


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Around ten of my friends called round to my house to watch Argentina V Brasil on Screen Sport at 2pm in the morning one night. My parents weren't very happy as you can imagine. Matches were very scarce back tnen.


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    Chris_Bradley
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    Julius Massive Tuxedo wrote: »
    Around ten of my friends called round to my house to watch Argentina V Brasil on Screen Sport at 2pm in the morning one night. My parents weren't very happy as you can imagine. Matches were very scarce back tnen.

    Sky was on 19e back then yeah?


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Chris_Bradley wrote: »
    Sky was on 19e back then yeah?
    Yes that's right I think until digital arrived and the choice of channels increased.


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    Chris_Bradley
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    Julius Massive Tuxedo wrote: »
    Yes that's right I think until digital arrived and the choice of channels increased.

    Was lucky enough to get Sky Digital when it eventually became accessible through Irish stores..... Genuine game changer


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    Gonzo
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    Chris_Bradley wrote: »
    Sky was on 19e back then yeah?

    It sure was, thats how we were able to also watch Dutch, German and Swedish channels as well as Sky TV. The Dutch and Swedish channels were mostly showing content in english and their subtitles was mostly accessed using teletext. Dutch channel RTL 4 had the subtitles hardcoded into the programme. German channels were dubbed.


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    #25
    mansize
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    Ah good old RTL2 - soft porn anyone?


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    mansize
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    Horizon Mulitchannel was our first taste of Sky TV

    The Movie Channel rather than sky movies was the offering - much better channel the rep said...

    First Premiership match Southampton v Sheffield United


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    Chris_Bradley
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    So was 3pms available on any of the foreign channels on 19e or was that just 1w?

    I know were swaying off Sky here - apologies.


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    mansize
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    First PPV McCollough v Naz
    I hated Prince Nazeem


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    Gonzo
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    mansize wrote: »
    Ah good old RTL2 - soft porn anyone?

    back then I was a 17 year old teenager and soon found out that using the TV tuner to offset Filmnet's very basic method of encryption often stabilized the picture with moderate success!

    A year or 2 later the game was over when Filmnet switched to D2mac from pal.

    The biggest disappointment was when Sky Digital was introduced in 1998. Irish viewers still had to watch Sky on 19e analogue while UK viewers were upgraded for free to digital on 28E. When that happened Sky started closing down the analogue feeds on 19E one by one while we were still subscribing. Then eventually in 2000 i think it was, Irish viewers could now get digital and the day we got it, I realized the whole pan-european tv was finished with Sky Digital. Since we got Sky Digital satellite tv has been nowhere nearly as fun or indeed cutting edge.


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Am I right in thinking before Sky became the multi million pound juggernaut it is today Rubert Murdoch had one channel called Sky channel I think was Australian. I know there was Super channel but I don't know if it was owned by him.


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    Gonzo
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    Julius Massive Tuxedo wrote: »
    Am I right in thinking before Sky became the multi million pound juggernaut it is today Rubert Murdoch had one channel called Sky channel I think was Australian. I know there was Super channel but I don't know if it was owned by him.

    the history of it is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_1


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