Talk:Sky One

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Contents 1 Station began in 1978?? 2 Mobile TV 3 Logo changes 4 Claire Sturgess 5 History Messed up 6 HD 7 Wrestling 8 Sky to run Lost series and Found (up comming lost spoof) 9 NPOV 10 Virgin Media Comments 11 WP:NOT

[edit] Station began in 1978??

Acoriding to this sky one article the orignal station sky one grew out of started in the early 80s, but this table on wikipedia suggests it was actually 1978 [[1]]

The BBC's very handy programme catalogue shows that 'Newsnight' covered the launch of Sky Channel on the 16th January 1984, saying that it launched 'tonight' [2]. It also states that it's Britain's first ever satellite channel. BillyH 01:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Intresting, but how can this be the UK's first ever, seeing as even this article admits that Murdoc bought an exsiting network that was aired in the UK? confusing! Also, I found great interest that only "10,000" people could get Satelitte TV when it first aired in the UK, not that i am disputing that figure, just saying it's intresting. That probably would have seemed like a lot back then, just like 1 million having mobile phones in the 1980s seemed a lot. 74.65.39.59 12:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Sky One did begin in 1982, back then as Sky Channel, if you look at the website http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/[3] and click in the Sky history, Sky Channel began in 1982, not 1984. The service that came before began in 1978, so the current text in the article that dates these events as 1978 and 1982 is correct. 74.65.39.59 12:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

The 1984 date is when it was legally available in the UK, before that it was broadcast from outsite the UK, was unlicenced by the IBC. IIRC the Cable Authority was pretty much set up to grant a license to Sky. Prior to this it was a pirate television channel and thus could not actively market in the UK. Timeline is this:

• 1978 Launch as SATV
• 1982 Bought by Murdoch, rebranded to Sky Television
• 1984 Granted UK Licence by CA

MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 13:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Makes no diffrence, we're still talking about when the channel LAUNCHED and was FOUNDED, not when it was "legally avalible", so even if it was broadcasting from 1978 to 1989 just for one person that is still the launch date, also it was possible to buy equipment on import from overseas (if you had the cash) and view the channel in the UK. 74.65.39.59 14:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mobile TV

Is it worth noting the availability of Sky One on Vodafone mobile TV?

Adamcobb 18:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logo changes

Why does the logo keep changing pointlessly for a lower-quality version? --Antz 22:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Because someone in Sky doesn't want us to notice it says "Sky Onc". Just like "Sky Tuo" and "Sky Thrcc":p --Kiand 22:56, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I like the weird letters. Makes it a bit different! :P --Antz 23:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

It's still being edited. What's going on?--Antz 18:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

It's because they have no idea what they are doing, really. --Occono 14:05, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Claire Sturgess

This may be my faulty memory, but I'm unaware of anyone other than Claire Sturgess doing the continuity since we got the channel in 1998. If you look at the Sky One page on TV Ark [4], Claire's the voice for all idents from the 'yellow lozenge' ones onward (which are billed as 1997, but looking at vintage schedules the Simpsons one is from the 3rd May 1998). I also have an entire night's programming on tape from April 2000, and Claire is the voice of all the links. BillyH 11:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History Messed up

The history of Sky One has got messed up. I was in the middle of reverting vandalism by Paulakin when they moved the page from under me. I don't know the best way to fix this, I reckon delete this page, and move back (again) Blind Date on TV and revert the edits. -- Jbattersby 09:40, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, and Paulakin blocked indefinitely.--Sean Black ^(talk) 09:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HD

There is nothing in this article to say when the Sky One HD channel started. - Lee Stanley 21:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrestling

Does the section on Wrestling have any encyclopaedic value? - Lee Stanley 21:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sky to run Lost series and Found (up comming lost spoof)

As we all sky outbid channel 4 to host the next series of lost, the big was much higher than anyone ever suspected (exact amount is unknown at this time), but along with this they have also launched "found" which is a spoof of lost, which i was initialy my idea, i was working on a low budget and no real schedual, however my set was tourched, we suspect it was the work of sky in this competive market, what do you think? Could sky really be responsible? (il post more reasons for suspecting sky later)

[edit] NPOV

A lot of the article reads like it was written by the Sky Press department, anyone agree or am I being paranoid? TiHead 21:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Nope you are correct but then would you expect anything else From Sky?? --AJFurnell 19:01, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Virgin Media Comments

Why does someone keep putting 'until summer 2007' next to Virgin Media, the link they keep using says 'Sky warns cable viewers they may lose its channels' and does not say that the channels are going i don't see how the two comments connect. --AJFurnell 19:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NOT

With reference to WP:NOT, I'm minded to say a list of current and former shows isn't encyclopedic? The precedent is that all channels list every programme they have ever shown, for the likes of ITV and BBC1 this list would go on for several pages. Pit-yacker 19:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)