Remembering Lifestyle - including Final Closedown 

Also, who can forget Dr. Ruth ? Happy Days !!

I KNOW!!! IT'S STUPID

It doesn't surprise me that Lifestyle had such colourful idents alongside a pastel butterfly and a feminine colour palette. The channel was aimed at women after all.

It's definitely a sad tribute with the poor butterfly exploding into thin air.

Sad.... 😢 😭

He is not poor, he is happy.

@@andjelkodukic2858 he’s living in Germany word has it

@@smophie6260 yeah

I liked those discovery channel promos and idents back then and it was only on air 4pm- midnight

MTV isn't MTV anymore.

Sky 1 gone 2021

Sky One tragically died at the end of last summer (2021). Only its Italian counterpart survives. Also dead or dying (presumably because of Disney plus) are the Disney Channels around the world. We are slowly losing historic channels. Also I'm unsure if Warner Bros is controlling Discovery (Italian channels owned by Discovery have now the Warner Bros thing alongside Discovery) so I think the pre 1989 cable era is gone if they kill (or rename) the Discovery Channel... Although this happens, the terrestrial TV's story still is unharmed since the BBC is staying even if they got a knock-off logo (the 1997 logo is better).

Sadly sky one is no more! 😢

:(

Is it Undecember 1 or January 25? I'm a bit confused over here...

@@ChampToonkles263 January 25th

A German news channel

at least she can join lifestyle in the heavens

But you'd still be operating *at a loss*. Sinking more money into short term improvements that wouldn't help in the long run is not a good business plan at all.

@@sillygoose635 But the channel was intended for a Pan-European audience and Lifestyle's target market was Europe as mentioned in the Astra Info channel. WHSTV wasn't losing money, they just made the decision to pull out of television altogether. There originally was a plan to encrypt Screensport and Lifestyle from the outset at Astra 1A's launch using a yearly subscription through TV Direct but this plan was never explored......and this was mentioned in the Astra 1A pre launch promotional VHS video that was sent to prospective satellite dealers in early 88 way ahead of the launch along with Astra Satellite promotional material. If you were going to aim Lifestyle and Screensport at a Pan European audience via subscription, the only way to do this is to sell subscriptions cards and decoders through European satellite dealers in reach of the Astra 1A reception zone throughout Northern Western Central and Eastern Europe, which is the area Astra 1A transmitted to.

@@anthonyperkins7556 While WHSTV wasn't losing money, its channels were, Lifestyle was closed due to low ratings and Screensport merged with Eurosport because they were both losing money. It doesn't really matter how it would have been encrypted if there wasn't an audience.

@@sillygoose635 Lifestyle was more a failure than Screensport as it had poorer ratings which sealed the channels fate, nothing to do with losing money as it was a free-to-air Pan European satellite channel on board the Astra 1A satellite which only made money from CATV carriage from CATV networks in range of the Astra Satellite but didn't make money from direct-to-home satellite dish reception as it was transmitted for free and in PAL clear unencrypted. Screensport was very popular across Europe with sports fans on Astra 1A but again only made its money from CATV operators in reach of the Astra 1A satellite whin wished to carry the service i.e usually those who carried the channel in one of the various transmitted language soundtracks 7.02-7.56 MHz in the channels main markets being a Pan-European channel whereas with direct-to-home Astra satellite dish viewers again this was transmitted in PAL Clear and free-to-air unencrypted via Astra 1A. Despite what you say, there WAS a plan to make money from the outset as I mentioned by offering Lifestyle and Screensport together as a subscription service annually at £49.95 via TV Direct who would handle the subscriptions and the plan was initially to offer those two services encoded in MAC format as a two channel package with a free decoder offered to subscribers who subscribed to the service (and this was mentioned in the earliest Astra Satellite promotional video which was sent on a VHS video cassette to prospective satellite reception equipment dealers who wished to offer Astra satellite equipment to their customers i.e. usually crappy rubbish sparklie prone Amstrads in the early days, and the video was also sent to CATV operators wanting to carry the service from Astra to their subscribers). However, this plan to offer Screensport and Lifestyle via a annual subscription never came to pass nor did it come to fruition and from day one both WHSTV channels were offered in the clear free to air unencrypted using clear PAL format which offered better picture quality viewed on RGB Scart connection or fair quality fuzzy composite PAL via crappy RF aerial connection or via CATV networks which carried them on RF anyway (the early cable boxes didn't have Scart or AV connections just RF for a television and connections for a hi-fi system hookup to hear satellite programmes in stereo on FM from TV soundtracks usually movie and music channels mainly and for some lucky subscribers, possibly additional satellite radio channels subject to availability and whether they were offered on that CATV system, Astra had several high quality satellite radio services in mono and stereo encoded in Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction on their audio subcarriers and some CATV operators would also offer these to subscribers on FM frequencies via a hi-fi or radio tuner hooked up to the CATV network). WHSTV sold its stake in Screensport to Eurosport resulting in a merger i.e for merger actually read 'takeover' because that's what effectively happened, as it couldn't afford the crippling cost of television sports rights on its own and as a result, Screensport therefore closed the channel at midnight UK / 1am CET on February 29th 1993 with the final programme being the Tur Espànà Masters Golf Tournament. Both Astra channels 1 and 4 (11.214 GHz / H and 11.258 GHz / V) from 1st March 1993 duplicated the newly merged service for a number of weeks with on-screen announcements that the new service would only broadcast on Astra tp 4 11.258 GHz / V from a certain date and then SES Astra allocated transponder 1 11.214 GHz / H to new German satellite service RTL-2 leaving Eurosport to continue operations on Astra channel 4.

I hope if here of the telecommunications inc. Changes these into these.

Here

Note that change is fake.

Also... Kate May Say.. From Tomorrow Our Programs Are Moving Into UK Style And The Launch of the News And Weather Channel United Kingdom News Network.

Reduced to atoms

Same with the music

1. I do not know, I will try to find out if it was. 2. Again, I don't know.

1. The episode shown here was aired during 1982, but if you mean was it aired as one of the last programs, yes.

If WHSTV had adopted encryption, and made it available to European viewers as well as those in the UK via a nominal £12 a year package with official decoders and paid for by equivalent currencies on the continent via countries in reach of the Astra 1A satellite, (and Screensport and Lifestyle were aimed at a Pan European audience as well as UK viewers with Astra dishes), then they would probably would have lasted longer.

Bro,I don’t know

It didn’t, VOX replaced lifestyle around the date of this airing, if anything it’s probably just a bumper teasing the new station

Lifestyle was on Astra 1 from March 1989 on. So it was available across Europe. Many Cable Networks in Germany also carried Lifestyle as they did with Screensport/Sportkanal. Cablenetworks received Vox from the DFS-Kopernikus satellite since Vox was time-sharing with sell-a-vision on Astra. This shopping Program continued until March 1999 when Vox gained full 24h control of Transponder 5.

Fun fact: After this final closedown and the Vox announcement Lifestyle satellite Jukebox had its final night from 22.00 on until early morning when SES switched to Vox in the middle of a videoclip.

A German TV channel.

@@cupcakefairy87 Oh okay. Thanks for telling me 😃

@@MediaCentUK It mostly broadcasts news and TV series. It still exists to this day.

@@cupcakefairy87 I didn't know that

8 or so

It launched on the 30th October 1985, and closed on the 23rd January 1993. So 8 years on air in total.

@@ItsABeautifulDay. Actually, it's the 24th.

"From 25 January 1993 on this channel".

I think it actually means: "Launching 25.1.1993 on this frequency."

Lifestyle was owned by WHSTV. Low ratings for both was what led to WHSmith to get out of television altogether focusing on their retail sector. Screensport-TESN was co-owned by both WHSTV and Capital Cities/ABC which did supply ESPN's programming on here. WHSmith sold off Screensport to the EBU, with the other half being Capital Cities/ABC which was merged into Eurosport at the beginning of March 1993. Eurosport did continue to show ESPN programming when Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications sold its stake back to the EBU in 1998.

Just ask low ratings.

It was replaced by VOX, a German news channel that began transmissions on January 25th, 1993. It still runs to this day.

Basically Vox replaced lifestyle, these played during airing to inform viewers whom might watch Vox, (primarily German speakers)

It was supposed to be a German language channel for those who speak it

@@smophie6260 tht i comen oun meh phoen

​@@smophie6260owned by RTL Group

Brilliant words

Vox's 'Requiem for Lifestyle' perhaps? It certainly sounds like one.

Probably some traditional German hymn

well, lifestyle never had an good audience, so that's why they closed down.

He is the same person. Think he became out of fashion at Radio 1 in the 80s.

I think so.

He use to present TVS All clued up gameshow ( remember that dreaded stinger ) lol

He left BBC Radio 2 in 1986 after they changed their music policy. Radio 1 was already growing with its audience and had lost its youth focus. So Radio 2 went even older, going back to the 40s and 50s for the most part. David Hamilton described the music policy as "geriatric".

Due to declining viewership

@@smophie6260 ok

@@smophie6260 I remember that this came in a short notice back then. OK WHSmith had some trouble with Screensport-TESN (Screensport vs Eurosport/EBU), but I guess they didn't want to run Lifestyle only. I wonder if there were plans at any time to start on the sky Multichannels platform which started few months later. Lifestyle had announced "to be encrypted in the near future" for years.

The viewership was low. So after reviewing both this and screensport (which would merge with eurosport, thus closing.) They decided to close this channel.

@@ItsABeautifulDay. too bad, had lots of promise.