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1977. 21 October – The World Administrative Radio Conference assigns each country five high-powered direct broadcast by satellite channels for domestic use. [1]1980. Plans for a pan-European satellite television station are put together by Brian Haynes, back by backed by Guinness Mahon and Barclays Merchant Bank and in November Mr Haynes sets up Satellite Television Ltd. (SATV) [2] [3]
Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989. Sky Television and its rival British Satellite Broadcasting suffered large financial losses, and merged on 2 November 1990 to form British Sky Broadcasting .
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The channel line-up consists of Sky Channel, Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport. 31 July – Sky Channel becomes a UK and Ireland-only service and is renamed Sky One although for a short time after the relaunch, some of Sky Channel's former pan-European programming is broadcast in the hours before Eurosport's startup, and the programme block is ...
History (known as Sky History in the UK and Ireland) is a European documentary television channel which broadcasts programs related to historical events and persons. There are also reality television , ufology and paranormal programs.
Print/export Download as PDF ... This is a timeline of the history of Sky News, a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation . 1980s. 1988. 8 June ...
5 February – Sky Television launches at 6 pm and with it the launch of the UK's first rolling news channel Sky News. 3 April – Channel 4 launches its breakfast service The Channel 4 Daily. Conceived as a television newspaper, output is based heavily on news and current affairs supplemented by a number of bite-sized feature segments lasting ...
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