The Movie Channel (British TV channel)
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The Movie Channel was a British television service which only aired movies. Launched on British Satellite Broadcasting, The Movie Channel was a predecessor of some of the Sky Movies channels, having survived the 1990 merger with Sky Television, another satellite service launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International.
History[edit]
The Movie Channel was one of the five services of British Satellite Broadcasting, a consortium consisting of Granada Television, Pearson, Virgin, Anglia Television and Amstrad.
Known as Screen during the bidding process, the channel launched as The Movie Channel on 25 March 1990. Prior to its launch, BSB signed an exclusive first-run deal with United International Pictures (which distributed Paramount, Universal and MGM/UA releases). One of its first premieres was the 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights.[1] It operated as BSB's only subscription service.[2]
Both BSB and Sky Television suffered heavy losses and merged, operating as the newly formed British Sky Broadcasting.[3] The Movie Channel, along with The Sports Channel remained on air, and it launched on the Astra 1B satellite on 15 April 1991, launching a 24-hour service the following month.[4]
It continued to broadcast as The Movie Channel until 31 October 1997 when it was rebranded as Sky Movies Screen 2.[5]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "BSB TV Month" (1). April 1990.
- ↑ "This is BSB (Launch Promo)". YouTube. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Maggie Brown on the early years of Sky Television". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2019-08-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "TWO EURO SATELLITE CHANNELS FALL FROM GRACE". Screen Digest. Archived from the original on 2011-04-12. Retrieved 2021-01-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Sky Channels To Be Rebranded". Mediatel. 10 October 1997.
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