'Sky' back in the day

Only Human

If you ever had analogue satelite television before the whole digital television era these sky trailers might bring back a few memories.
http://home.clara.net/jim.edwards/skymov.htm

Those were the days

bounty

they dont work

robbie1876

I remember when Sky TV launched. The big dilema that night was whether to watch the 'opening ceremony' of Sky, or it's main rival 'Super Channel' which was also launching that night. I watched Super and became an instant fan. Ah I miss Super Channel, they had the most deranged programming schedule, but I loved it.

John R

http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/m-sky.shtml

bounty

'Super Channel' :eek: wtf was that

robbie1876

If I remember right, it became 'NBC Super channel' and then just 'NBC Europe'

bounty

oh, i like nbc europe, its got conan obrien

Ro: maaan!

Super Channel, jesus. Remember that alright. 'Twas always on number 8 in my house.

billy the squid

dont watch that

watch this

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

billy the squid

robbie1876 wrote:

If I remember right, it became 'NBC Super channel' and then just 'NBC Europe'

and before it was super it was called "music box"

actually super used to have to go off the air for periods of the day and night as it was not broadcasting from a geostationary satelite, and would periodicaly travel accross the far side of the earth.

Ruu_Old

where did Country Music Television go..that used to be on the analogue, didnt it? They all started phasing out all the channels until there was feck all left

Only Human

These are the most memorable for me:

8bi1ctzegfouva

does anyone else remember that channel that used to be on sky analogue, telling you all about sky and the astra satelite?? it used to just repeat over and over and each time it would be in a different language.
my cousin and me used to love watching it. looking back on it now i can't seem to see what the interest.

Only Human

the detective wrote:

does anyone else remember that channel that used to be on sky analogue, telling you all about sky and the astra satelite?? it used to just repeat over and over and each time it would be in a different language.
my cousin and me used to love watching it. looking back on it now i can't seem to see what the interest.

I think I remember that!

Ruu_Old

i remember those astra thingies. They used to be on the unused channels i think and would give all heaps of boring info on astras satellites. Why i remember taping it, god knows why

Only Human

When did sky stop broadcasting their annalogue service?

8bi1ctzegfouva

my cousin and i used to have competitions drawing the astra satelite, seeing who could draw the most realistic one. if i remember correctly, there were loads of astra satelites, like 9 or something, all side by side? could be wrong, but i think i remember something about that.

what was that show that used to be on sky one which had the olsen twins as kids on it? full house or something? and the girl was called dj.

those were the days ehh?

StupidLikeAFox

ahh, old sky, DJ Kat anyone? i loved his green bomber jacket.....

billy the squid

The above logo started being used when sky channel moved from holland to the UK and with the introduction of the likes of Sky Movies, Sky News, Eurosport,

They used to show old thrillers on Friday nights on Sky channel, the first one they showed after this change over was "hush hush Sweet Charlotte" starring Bette Davis.

You would also see the caption "Start up Transmission" appear throughout the programmes on sky channel and sky movies when this set up started.

They had sky all the time in Dublin but the channel was not availible in Limerick for a few years imediately before the changeover, although when sky started as "Europes number one" it was availible on westward Cables (now chorus)



I could be wrong but this one would have come about after Sky's merger with Brittish Satelite Broadcasting. It didnt last verry long and was replaced by the Sky One logo.



The movie channels had been scrambled for a while at this stage and Sky One started encripting certain programmes.

It was around this time that Cablelink lost the rights to rebroadcast all of their satelite channels.

at one stage there were only BBC 1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 and RTE One and Network two availible in Dublin.

I dont remember if the scrambled movie channels were sitill availible in Dublin at this time I would assume they were.



Sky came back to Dublin on Cablelink. and this was the presentation package they had. when it returned.

I actually bought my first satelite system for fifty pounds around this time. It was a fergisun astra box with 32 channels and a seperate videoCrypd decoder. so you had underneath the TV set in the cabinet a load of boxes, your video your satelite box and decoder.



This was the set up when I started college. there was a Sky 2 for a while but it didnt last very long

Only Human

billy the squid wrote:

This was the set up when I started college. there was a Sky 2 for a while but it didnt last very long

Interesting. I remember sky 2. It got replaced by Fox Kids I think on the sky annalogue satelite service.

billy the squid

indeed i think you are correct



nothing was like staying up for sky trax and taping videotapes full of songs for later viewing. between sky trax and music box you woere spoiled for choice.

byte

Ruu wrote:

where did Country Music Television go..that used to be on the analogue, didnt it? They all started phasing out all the channels until there was feck all left

Am I right in thinking that RTÉ used to show CMTE at certain parts of the morning to fill up air time?

Ruu_Old

thats correct byte. damn the images of billy ray cyrus again *bangs head off wall* thats better

I remember that purple sky 1 logo. Also remember Sky 2, the opening of the channel had a heap of the X-Files on it, must have watched it all nite

fade2black

Christ the nostalgia.....getting up on a cold morning for school...watching Dj Kat and the turtles before school....listening to the radio to see if your school was closed because of the snow...jumpers for goalposts...ooh......Anyone remember the satellite jukebox? Jaysus that was a great source of filth in the old days. The same songs everynight...."hello hello...." and "We'll cheer you up, we'll cheer you up, we'll cheer you up with the pin up club..." Ahhh......

i'll get me coat.

irishshogun

Yeah I remember when Sky 2 started, they used the new series of Star Trek Voyager to sell it to people.

Kingsize

towards the end super channel used to show concerts by really weird bands
it was great- i remeber coming home buckled late one night & me & my mates watching a bad called THOR play a concert to an audience of about 20 people
happy days indeed.super channel also showed "death race 2000" on a very regular basis...
incedentally i do remember video jukebox filth , but youd have to sit through hours of freddie mercury videos before they'd get played.We chEer you up was a particular favourite of mine comprising of that unbeatable formula of a catchy tune & SEMI NAKED WOMEN.

Blisterman

How many channels were on Sky analog sattelite?
We only had Cablelink with 15 channels or so, and one of them just showed what was on every other channel. Does anyone remember that?

I can remember
RTE 1
Network 2
TV3
TG4
Sky 1
MTV
Eurosport which became CNBC
CNBC which became National Geographic and then Discovery Channel
BBC 1
BBC 2
Channel 4
UTV
Sky News
TCC which became Nickelodeon

Im sure Im forgetting one or two.

billy the squid

on the analog satelite you had

Sky One
Sky News
Sky Movies +
The Movie Channel
Sky Movies Gold
Sky Sports
TCC
Bravo
CNN
MTV
VH1
Cartoon Network

some free german and dutch channels

had some radio stations tuned into the 32 channel box

32 RTE Radio 1
21 Radio Limerick One
30 Sky Radio
29 Virgin 1215
28 BBC Radio 1
27 N-Joy Radio

I got one pace 1000 satelite system after that which had 250 channel slots on it and I couldnt tell you what was on it but most of them were filled with mostly radio stations.

Only Human

If I'm not mistaken I think I can remember all of the of the sky movie channels changing names every so often. Sky Movie max, Sky Premier, Sky movies, Sky gold, sky classic etc.

8bi1ctzegfouva

dj kat was so good. i used to love watching it before school. jesus, how weird was that, getting up early enough to watch tv and have breakfast before school, instead of the usual getting up two seconds before you are meant to leave.

was rude-dog and the dweebs on sky? does anyone remember it?

smuckers

Those were the days, alright. I always used to get up and watch The Turtles on Sky, and if I missed them I'd catch them after school, and a couple of years before that, usually the potatoe head kids on The Childrens channel, remember them?
I really miss the old Sky songs for programmes.
I remember my TGIF lineup, Riptide, Hunter ( his hot little sidekick Didi) and WWF (when I was into it)
Other sky programes, there was a gameshow before Simpsons presented by Bruno Brooks can't remember it.
Smile on your candid Camera, terrible stuff but the most memorable one off proggy was The Bastard LOL.
I watched The Flash the other day, that replaced Hunter.

Only Human

The flash and the turtles were classics! Was TJ Hooker on the Sky channel? or was that on a diffrent channel?

smuckers

TJ was indeed, Sat evening, and in the very early days, you had Small Wonder. Sitcoms back then were shows like Growing Pains and Full House, in fact they've had 2 Growing Pains films.

billy the squid

bruno brooks presented some sort of dating gameshow I cant remember the name of it though

as for sky songs see do you remember this

real player required http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/international/video/sky_theone89.rm

or this
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/sky/sky_symphony_promo93.rm

Sky news launch promo (1989)
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/skynews/skynews_1982promo.rm

smuckers

None of them seem to work.

thos

What about 'KY TV' ? The piss-take on Sky TV ? Cant find any trace of it though.

smuckers

ah they work now, very good. KY was on BBC2 that was v funny.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1853/

billy the squid

they are actual downloads, not streams so they will take a little while.

I remember KYTV they had a brown nose day, and their breaking news was that germany invaded poland. very funny

jm2k

ahh those were the days ...anyone remember endless repeats of "Little Shop of Horrors" on Sky Movies in the early days!

billy the squid

everything was endlessly repeated on sky movies, and stil is, at least Little shop of horors was funny, try watching "the sound of music " twelve times

Gonzo

i remember us getting satellite back in 1992, before that we only had a few stations on a crappy aerial reception and when i zapped up through 16 stations for the first time i was amazed, we had: these are the ones i remember

RTL 4
RTL
Sat 1
Childrens Channel
Teleclub
MTV Europe
Screensport
Lifestyle
Eurosport
Sky One
Filmnet
Tele5
Sky News
Sky Movies
Pro7
3Sat

ahhh those were the days... much better than the current sky digital imo

Silvera

BUT WHERE IS COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION GONE ?????????????????????

I used to like some of the songs/videos shown on RTE during the afternoon

byte

I'm surprised it's not on Sky digital at the moment. The US version (not same as Euro version) owned by Viacom/MTV so surprised that MTV hasn't added it to its diluted bouquet of channels already existing on Sky UK.

www.cmt.com maybe if enough email them....

Q. Is CMT available by satellite outside of the U.S?
A. No. The "footprint" for CMT's satellite only covers North America, plus it is a scrambled signal requiring a decoder. Viewers on the other side of the planet can't pick up our signal even if they had the necessary equipment.

Q. Will CMT Europe or CMT Australia return?
A. No, the international version of CMT was owned and operated by another company. That company changed its name to Music Country and is no longer the name CMT.

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the detective wrote:

was rude-dog and the dweebs on sky? does anyone remember it?

LEGEND

Abdiel

smuckers wrote:

I remember my TGIF lineup, Riptide, Hunter ( his hot little sidekick Didi) and WWF (when I was into it)
Other sky programes, there was a gameshow before Simpsons presented by Bruno Brooks can't remember it.
Smile on your candid Camera, terrible stuff but the most memorable one off proggy was The Bastard LOL.
I watched The Flash the other day, that replaced Hunter.

Think the dating show was "Love at First Sight" co-host was Helen Brunby or something as far as I remember - there was a Sale of the Century used to be on around that era as well co host on that was Maria Rice-Mundy, cant remember who actually hosted it though.
I do know my female co-hosts though :-)

Didi McCall sure was nice :-) Wasn't there a rape story involving her at one stage ? Wonder how many series they made of that.

Watched the Flash myself last weekend - didnt he have a nemesis named Pollux or something (something to do with Gemini twins - Castor and Pollux).

smuckers

I don't recall the rape storyline,there were7 seasons of Hunter. is The Flash on at the wkend on scfi channel? the pilot was on Wed and then it was bumped.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeGuideSummary/showid-729/Hunter/

TCamen

Sky 2 was great -- aired 'Profit', classic series. It's finally coming to DVD later this year

They also aired 'Kindred: The Embraced' which is on DVD a while now.

kika_j

Yeah Rude dog was cool but NEVER "DJ Kat" cool

JDxtra

Don't forget about Screensport... (merged with the original Eurosport I believe)
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/screensport/screen89b.jpg

And the lifestyle channel... (David Hamilton and all that)
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/lifestyle/lifestyle2.jpg

...they were both on Cablelink in the early days.

billy the squid

Lyfestyle was losing money for the bookshop chain WH smith. so lifestyle was shut down and screensport was merged with eurosport, which left the sky group of channels when sky sports came along.

remember POWW on weekend lifestyle.

irishshogun

I remember that sky used to show this show every day.. with the sexy blonde and the old wife beaten lecher living downstairs..the plainer female flat mate and the with the late John Ritter as the lucky sod living with the two girls. I also remeber thhe kids show on a Sat morning ..they used to reuse the same pice of video over and over especially the bit about drawing a circle!! but they also showed Jace and the Wheled warriors so that made up for it