'Sky' back in the day

rubadub

kika_j wrote:

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

thats a D and a J and a kat with a K!

threes company was the best, I was hoping somebody would mention it.

john ritter was jack, mr roper was the lecher, jack had to pretend to be gay to stay in the flat for some reason. suzanne somers was the ditzy blonde.

then there was pat sharpe with his disgraceful mullet...


just found threes company on dvd
http://www.playcentric.com/dvd/product.asp?refererID=DVDPRICECHECK&product_ID=D_R_013131267396&AID=489300&PID=1089063

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I miss the german soft porn that use to be on astra... ahhh how it got me through my dateless teenage years

... if only it was still on it could get me through my dateless twenty-something years

Nuttzz

super channel was great, remeber the fuss when the aired the "confessions of...." films

Mr.Lizard

I do remember loving Sky when we first got it. I think it was around 1987. It's hard to convey to anyone watching the rubbish that Sky is today but at the time it was a big deal. All we have before was the 6x dull terrestrial channels and Sky came along and was so exciting and fresh with programmes I had never seen before and presenters who seemed too cool for this planet.

The best way of conveying it would be to compare what was going at the time. Saturday afternoon, UTV was showing Big Daddy from some townhall in the north of england. Sky bursts in with HulkHogan running wild in Madison square garden. That's the difference. BBC would have Going live which seemed to be wall to wall yapping and endless plugs for rubbish popbands I'd never heard of. Cartoons very few and far between. Sky on the other hand would have "The Fun Factory" which was basically just 4 hours of cartoons (Mask, Transformers, Starcom etc) only stopping to show ads for this and that toy. I must have nagged for so many toys on the basis of that programme that my parents must have hated it! That was basically the story across the board.

Of course now I realise I was just being a shallow little kid that had been taken in by all the razzmatazz but I will always remember those early years of sky fondly.

Joliegood

Pat Sharpe and Ronnie the Runner on weekday afternoons.
Tony Blackburn's show.
Mick Wall presenting the Monsters of Rock show.
Tommy Vance doing the voiceovers.
I dream of Jeannie followed by Hogan's Heroes.
Sky Trax from Germany on Sunday mornings
They also used to show Dutch football a lot and some Spanish stuff too.

D-FENS

When I think of sky stating out, I think of Three’s Company with a very young John Ritter (And a blonde hotty), the Deadly Ernest Horror Show 9Scared the sh*te of me most weeks). Also a one or two part drama they billed as if it was the no.1 movie in America but was about 20 years old even back then, called The B*stard.
Then later, in the early 90’s, cr*p Australian late night soap “Chances”

mikedublin

billy the squid wrote: »

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.

Nice to see someone else remembers Lifestyle and Screensport. I used to work there back in 1989/90 in the video library. Beautiful studios and transmission centre just off Regent Street in Central London. At first the 2 stations shared a transponder, then when Astra went live they split and extended the hours. Lifestyle had loads of odd American gameshows, and chat shows like Sally Jessy Raphael, mixed in with pre-recorded segments with the "fluttering butterfly logo".

darkdubh

Anyone remember the German channel that showed 70s soft porn films on a saturday night?

Disease Ridden

I remember the Simpsons used to be on Sky 1 at 7 in the morning...think it was around 1996/97. Used to love that! Older brothers would be getting up, pissed off cause they'd be leaving for the school bus is the pouring rain in a short while!

Beavis and butthead on MTV, the 90's...class!

Cartoon network was the rizzle pizzle aswell.

kraggy

darkdubh wrote: »

Anyone remember the German channel that showed 70s soft porn films on a saturday night?

Was that Vox channel? We had if for a while anyway...

Also, anyone remember (think it was on screensport or lifestyle), they used to show music videos at night time and every sixth video had tits in it.

Those were the days..

120_Minutes

darkdubh wrote: »

Anyone remember the German channel that showed 70s soft porn films on a saturday night?

RTL, SAT1 and PRO7.....err i mean no, dont remember them at all.

we were the first in the area to get a dish, when putting it up my dad realised that it picked up astra on the ground, so he made a wooden stand and there it stayed. i ran a splitter to my room but of course had to watch what everyone else was....cue shouts from my room of the channel changed during parker lewis. i used to go outside and give the dish a shove if i wanted to watch super channel on eutelsat.


and mtv played music.....

icdg

billy the squid wrote: »

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

Cablelink never lost the rights to all of their satellite channels. What did happen was, from approxemitely 1992-1994, they got into a big row with Sky over carriage fees and lost Sky One and Sky News for a period. Resolving this situation took a long time and there were several "false starts" when Cablelink announced "the return of Bart Simpson" but didn't complete the deal. In 1994 they finally signed up and Sky One and Sky News returned along with Eurosport (which Cablelink had previously carried scrambled for some reason) and TV5 arrived for the first time.

However, throughout this entire period, TCC, Super Channel, and Screensport (until it closed) remained on Cablelink, as did Sky Movies Plus, The Movie Channel, Sky Movies Gold, Sky Sports 1 and 2.

nolo77

Our family didn't turn the telly on before school but if we had a day off we liked Lamb Chops Playalong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N445qz-Uepo&feature=related

Anyone remember "The Song that never Ends" ? Google it to jog your memory!:)

billy the squid

billy the squid wrote: »

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.

Can't believe I'm replying to such an old post but the thread's on the front page so hey...

The satellite was geostationary but didn't have full eclipse protection. It had 10 transponders but the onboard battery could only power six during an eclipse and Super's wasn't one of them. This only affected the ECS 1 (later Eutelsat I-F1) satellite, the later satellites in the ECS family all had full eclipse protection.

Capt'n Midnight

ColHol wrote: »

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

How could you not remember Linda de Mol ?

superfly

ah Ronnie the Runner "run Ronnie run! run Ronnie run!"
i remember Sky showing old US gameshows in the morning
Super was always good for the music videos along with Rentaghost and Blakes 7, but they went completely bonkers towards the end though
what was the name of that show on MTV that used to be on every evening with Ray somebody?

we'llallhavetea_old

superfly wrote: »

ah Ronnie the Runner "run Ronnie run! run Ronnie run!"
i remember Sky showing old US gameshows in the morning
Super was always good for the music videos along with Rentaghost and Blakes 7, but they went completely bonkers towards the end though
what was the name of that show on MTV that used to be on every evening with Ray somebody?

i remember Sky showing old US gameshows in the morning


i used to watch card sharks in the morning before school!!

Jaygon2009

Does anybody remember the Horror movies on a Friday night? Friday Fright Night used to host a different one each week and then there was Freddie's Knightmares..........