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What happened next: Nick at Nite never launched. IFC bought TVS and promised the earth for original UK content, then sold up. Bravo had great branding but low ratings. CMT had its devotees but again ratings doomed it. Nick had a slow start but took off eventually. UK Living too. TCC didn't have a large US archive so nosedived once it had more competition. The rest I guess you could say were a success from the off.
+Hoshi No Kaabii The EC you mean? They should - but I guess that was when programming rights holders really started to be nazis about coverage areas of the networks their content was broadcast on.
They didn't have a choice - from day one they were under pressure from Hollywood not let viewers outside the UK (which was always the official target area) watch their content. Scrambling the signal allowed them to show premium content.
Even when you convert these prices for inflation, they are still a good price compared to todays prices for Sky: Package 1 (All Channels) - £19.99 (£35 / €41 Today) Package 2 (2 Premium Channels / Multichannels) - £16.99 (£30 / €35 Today) Package 3 (1 Premium Channel / Multichannels) - £11.99 (£21 / €25 Today) Package 4 (Multichannels)- £6.99 - (£12.50 / €14.75 Today) *Today's prices are rounded to the nearest 50p Our family pays nearly €90 (£76) a month for the main channels and the movie channels. I know there was less channels on back then, but there was something on most of the time, when you compare it now and there's very little to watch now most of the time and having 3 to 4 times the channels there was in 1993.
I was mortified when they ditched the old Bravo and turned it into a load of crap. The only thing worth watching was ‘Alias’. Guess Talking Pictures sort of fills that void now.
5:48: "Nickelodeon's first NickToon" would be surprising for Americans to hear, but in the UK it's accurate since Nickelodeon had already sold the UK broadcast rights to their first cartoons to BBC and Channel 4.
my mum subscribed to the 2 film channels when we eventually got satellite, my ex father didn't want satellite, he preferred cable which only gave us 4 Sky channels and it cost more, when the multi channels pack launched it took 2 days of phone calls to Sky to sort it out, as the channels were blocked, my mum did not know what to say so i sorted it out, they told me to put the receiver on to MTV, which they used to send a message to the card to unlock the channels
Yeah, MTV being used to send the data to user's viewing cards, that was a bit weird. I used to subscribe to all the channels, the number of channels was a bit inflated when you count how many of them shared Sky channel 11 with History, Sci-Fi, Sky Travel and Sky Soap all time-sharing!
that's right i remember them time sharing, i had to tune the receiver (Nokia Sat 1500) to get Astra 1C as it was only tuned for Astra 1A & 1B, it had 90 channels, after less than 2 years it broke down, it was repaired but it gave out a poor picture on Sky pay channels and hissy sound on all
The reasons Nick At Nite never launched on Nickelodeon's transponder Astra 1C Channel 46 11.146 GHz H polarisation Stereo 7.02 / 7.20 MHz, is because negotiations to bring it to the UK via the Sky Multichannel Package broke down, and Paramount Television (UK) stepped in to offer The Paramount Channel instead on Nickelodeon's transponder from 7pm nightly onwards.
@@anthonyperkins7556Odd when you think about it as Paramount eventually morphed into a comedy channel with a lot of similar content to Nick at Nite ie old US sitcoms.
@@Randomlista12 when Bravo and Discovery Channel Europe arrived on Astra 1C, they started off early 1993 as soft scrambled Videocrypt free to view (decoder but no subscription) then when Sky Multichannels started off September 1st went full encrypted Videocrypt via subscription only.
@Shane Gallagher BBC & ITV are not as good as it use to be. Sky and BT spilt the tv rights especially for Premier League meaning had to pay for 2 (now 3) subscriptions just to watch their own team play and BT may put their sport channels up for sale as they increased the prices for most things now. E4, Comedy Central, CC Xtra, Sky Atlantic, History, Discovery, Sky Comedy and RT are all just repeats. Sky Arts is rubbish but I can see why others may like it.
a lot of movies of the 10s suck as well. you don't notice the suck as much when the movies are fairly new and , you've not seen them much or even at all. yeah, when their all dated as hell, its easy to see.
like the new movies are any better. Constant repeats of 50 movies on sky cinema channels are boring af.... id pay todays money to have all the channels from back then even with the same original schedules
