The good old days when you could take your Sky card with you and use it in any decoder. I had a shop and used to watch MTV there during the day in the mid to late 90's taking my card from home, back when MTV was worth watching.
@SnoopCleggyClegg10 жыл бұрын
I just got Sky+HD, primarily due to my memories of Analogue Sky circa 1991-1995. sadly, It just isn't as cool as it was then, it's not as exciting! Analogue Sky had less channels, but there was always something on.. And once you ran out of stuff to watch, there was always RTL & Sat1 to switch to late on a Friday evening as a teenager ;) Who needs to know what they were saying, right? ;) It's not the same now. I've had it 4 days and already struggle to find something decent, or not repeated!
@speedyman2k710 жыл бұрын
tutti fruiti on sat1 sundat nights lol
@pexcornel8 жыл бұрын
+robert preece it was on RTL!
@ep19294 жыл бұрын
All the German channels are still there on astra 19.2 east - Sat 1, 3 sat, pro sieben, vox and hundreds of others. UK TV moved to astra 28.2 east which is didicated to UK programming. The Germans are still very liberal in showing their soft porn later on in the night. (Yes I still have a digital setup on 19.2 east)
@wrtlpfmpf3 жыл бұрын
@@speedyman2k7 Actually on "RTLplus". Produced in Italy for cost reasons and so cheap they only had to sell a single advertisement slot to break even. It was watched probably by thousands of people. Numbers modern commercial stations in Germany can only dream of.
@robertcomer27673 жыл бұрын
Sky is utter rubbish these days. Sky One needs to be dumped.
@TheDIETRy12 жыл бұрын
sky in the late 90s was amazing it was better then the sky tv we have today
@sillygoose6355 жыл бұрын
no it wasn't
@ppate84 ай бұрын
Early to mid 90s rather
@darren2514fv7 жыл бұрын
The only way you could get both SKY' and BSB's channels on the same network together prior to the merger which was 9 Channels was cable
@und42874 жыл бұрын
Or somehow set up 2 dishes and receivers
@robertcomer27673 жыл бұрын
£14.99 for two movie channels in 1991. Thirty years on they're still showing the same old films, 8-10 movie channels and can't sell it at £11.99 a month.
@jasonl59678 жыл бұрын
It would have been better if the Original BSB channels Galaxy, Now and The Power Station had been transferred to Astra once Sky sold the Marcopolo Satellites, eventually making 8 channels instead of 5, before the launch of Sky Multichannels in September 1993.
@UKArchiveTV7 жыл бұрын
As he makes reference to the Simpsons number 1 hit record, I'd say this is more like Feb/Mar 91
@jake_isnotcool11 жыл бұрын
If only he knew, over 20 years on, the simpsons is still a very common sight on sky one!
@dangaAgadanga6 ай бұрын
Even 30 years on! 😊
@robertoceferino14568 ай бұрын
The host of this program, Barry McKenzie, was only 27 years old when this was recorded.
@evonne_oАй бұрын
Is he still alive?
@mesicek75 жыл бұрын
Do you maybe know how long Sky channels were fta on astra 19.2? I remember my dad buying an Amstrad fidelity SRX 200 sat receiver with a sat dish back in early 90s just so we could watch them. cheers
@ep19294 жыл бұрын
Some of the channels started to get scrambled in 1994, I remember UK gold was free (but had to be received on a box with sky's encryption system)
@michaelmcdonald23484 жыл бұрын
From what I remember there was a delay deciding on the encryption method and all Sky channels were FTA for about a year or so. Sky Movies was the only channel that was encrypted when they rolled out the decoders and cards. The likes of Sky One stayed FTA till about 92 or 93. There were adverts in satellite mags in the early 90's implying that the WH Smith channels (Lifestyle/Screensport) would soon be encrypted but that never happened. Not sure anyone would have paid to watch them. The funny thing if you look at the SRX100 or 200 they were designed with a cut out in the top cover, I believe this was where the decoder was supposed to sit. Then of course the huge ugly Videocrypt decoder arrived. Clearly this wasn't the original plan.
@mrkipling22017 жыл бұрын
The sky sports section showed clips of the Everton v Liverpool 4-4 fa cup game which was in February 1991 so this ad must have been first half of 91
@anthonyperkins7556 Жыл бұрын
After the BSB-Sky merger, the new company started turning it's back on the free to air Pan European market that Astra provided, and took a serious focus away from Europe towards UK only subscription pay-tv provision.
@Blubatt9 жыл бұрын
25 years later, and Sky One, Sky Movies, and Sky Sports have basically stayed the same.
@cjmillsnun6 жыл бұрын
The Movie Channel became Sky Movies 2. Sky News is still a thing.
@Praktycznie4 жыл бұрын
The same? Seriously ? It will never be the same. Sky Sports and SKY News are the same because of the content they broadcast.. but the movie and entertainment service has changed by a mile .. and not for the better .. SKY one has no daytime programming like Kids cartoons in the morning, lifestyle like Oprah and SJR. Constant repeats of the new shows (few eps one by one) I get sick of. I'd rather watch Pick and Horror channel instead of SKY1 especially in the evening. The worst thing that happened to movie service is that the program schedulers were changed to computers. We had repeats in the past but this what we have now is plain idiocy. WHO needs so many linear movie channels with all VODs around .Id rather go back to 3 movie channels like it was in the 90s. Mix of movies + one good classic movie channel. For me SKY is no longer attractive service ... and is a piece of not thought after programming with super expensive price tag .. my 2 cents... ok pennies ;) CHeers!
@newsfixpl12 жыл бұрын
great clip .... thx for posting
@derekclear39138 ай бұрын
I was at Rumbelows so would've seen this at the time. Sky sent vhs tapes to retailers for training.
@koekone3 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Finland! So nice to see these great historical analogue Satellite TV captures! Thank you very much! Here is my satellite bandscan from 1993 bbs.fmdx.tk/index.php?topic=519.msg2083#msg2083 More here bbs.fmdx.tk/index.php?topic=519.0 Please use Google translator. Best wishes and 73s from Finland!
@radiotvhistory3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Greetings from Switzerland. Vy 73s
@john1112578 жыл бұрын
loads of channels all showing repeats,in an age where we have catch up, tivo, and all.We pay for all this,as well as tv licence,strange how we waste so much money on so little.
@nonroadusr6 жыл бұрын
"strange how we waste so much money on so little." And in one comment from John Robertson we have the truth :-)
@stevecw797 жыл бұрын
Decoders, geeze that's a blast from the past. Remember hating my dad for not getting one, was mad to see some FA Cup/Scottish football. Now avoid both!
@CrazyTobster5 жыл бұрын
The Movie Channel used NBC's movie's logo, the intro was basically the same.
@sillygoose6355 жыл бұрын
wait what?
@raysharp56776 жыл бұрын
amazing that 1985 sky started with 8 channels....and now makes billions
@mrkipling22017 жыл бұрын
He wasn’t wrong about the simpsons new episodes are still being shown on sky one!!
@tiberseptim56010 ай бұрын
Did it work of course it did specially with people who hate the BBC licence fee for crap you don’t watch the BBC is rotten to the core licence fee his out of date just a matter of time before it’s abolished
@techtinkerin3 жыл бұрын
Sky today may as well just be one massive advert.. total jip off😁
@smophie62602 жыл бұрын
Same with the Australian version, foxtel
@paulsouthon247211 жыл бұрын
i prefured sky tv analogue..
@nonroadusr6 жыл бұрын
Me too :-)
@nov30198920089 жыл бұрын
I have an Astra car, beat that!
@darren2514fv6 жыл бұрын
Early 1991
@MarkGenner-xz4zu8 ай бұрын
33 Years
@danielbeard5008 Жыл бұрын
Still today the satellite dish is still the best way of having sky... the satellite dish is now part of British heritage...we prefer our dishes compared to the unreliable internet streaming service....tbh the satellite dish from Astra is awesome 👍😎