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Old 15-03-2024, 07:09   #1
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If you can rememeber

MTV channels
BBC

Or other channels?

My favourites were

MTV (When they played Music in the 80s)
Golf channel - When this first came to my cable system I laughed but I really got into Golf,its so relaxing to watch! (Assigned to 69)
Lifetime (Assigned to 30)
HBO (Assigned to 17)

We paid for HBO......

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Old 15-03-2024, 09:12   #2
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

Making this more relevant to UK cable television, one that was missed at the time in many cable households was CMT Europe when many cable companies dropped in September 1996. It continued on satellite until summer 1998.

I do remember missing MTV Europe when MTV UK launched on 1 July 1997, not least because MTV Europe displayed the song being played in those wonderfully unique boxes, which MTV UK did not choose to use. MTV UK was never as good as MTV Europe.
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

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Old 17-03-2024, 18:20   #5
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

I had BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) for a month before they merged with Sky to become BSkyB.

They actually had a half decent music channel by the name of "The Power Station". Had a big slant toward UK material while MTV was very US focused. When Sky took over they hastily removed it & replaced it with Sky Movies Plus.

Look out for a very young Pat Sharpe, & also Chris Evans before he started working on terrestrial TV on these clips from the last day of transmission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWWOK2Eurw
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

Galaxy.


IIRC it was a BSB channel.


I was retuning a old CRT TV and I came a cross a channel that I didn't know, I got my parent to check and they didn't have it, I think I found a few more.


My town had a ring arial before Cambridge put in cable TV
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

Yes Galaxy was part of the BSB line-up. It only lasted for just over six months as it was chopped when Sky took over BSB with Sky One replacing it on Marco Polo. Now was also dropped at the same time, replaced on Marco Polo by Sky News with weekend opt-puts for arts programming which had to be shown for contractural reasons. The Power Station lasted quite a bit longer, on air for more than a year before it was replaced on Marco Polo by Sky Movies.
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

The Weather Channel. It had funky music
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

Has anyone mentioned Topless Darts? Terrible programme, the darts "players" were rubbish!
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

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Has anyone mentioned Topless Darts? Terrible programme, the darts "players" were rubbish!
You're missing the point (s) of the programme.
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Has anyone mentioned Topless Darts? Terrible programme, the darts "players" were rubbish!
Lots of double top finishes I'm sure
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

And for the girls: Lunchbox volleyball.

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I would be also,im terrible at it
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Re: What were your favourite channels on analogue TV?

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