Sky One
Launched:	Summer 1982
Audience Share :	1.7% (Sept '05 [1])
Owned By:	BSkyB
Formerly Called:	Satellite Television Limited (until 1984), Sky Channel (until 1989)
Sister channel(s):	Sky Two, Sky Three
www.sky.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Not available
Satellite
Sky Digital:	Channel 106
Cable
Telewest:	Digital Channel 120, Analogue Channel 21
NTL:	Digital Channel 140, Analogue Channel 30, NTL Ireland Channel 111
Chorus Communications:	Channel 9

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Origins

The channel grew out of Britain's first satellite TV channel, named Satellite Television Limited, launched independently in the summer of 1982 and distributed on a small number of British and European cable television systems. In 1984 the channel was bought by Rupert Murdoch's company and renamed Sky Channel. Most of the programming in these early years consisted of cheap syndicated American programming, mostly taken from 16mm film copies, which was interrupted by frequent commercials in a variety of languages. Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born on March 11, 1931), is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast television programs to multiple television stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... (Redirected from 16mm film) 16mm film was initially created in the 1920s as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. ...

See also: British Sky Broadcasting#Origins British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting) is a company that operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. ...

Sky Television

When Murdoch expanded his satellite operation by launching Sky Television in 1989, Sky Channel was included in the package and its programming remained much the same, with a few international travel documentaries thrown in to add a small amount of variety. In mid-1989 the channel was renamed Sky One, but it was not until 1990-1 that it began to acquire more recent programming, an early success being Moonlighting, which the BBC had previously screened but not repeated. Sky One also picked up some programming (and more importantly, advertisers) from its merger with BSB's Galaxy Channel. On September 1 1993 Sky One was encrypted as part of the Sky subscription package, and could no longer be viewed outside the UK and Ireland without fraudulently exporting a box, or receiving it over cable. Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moonlighting is a television series that first aired on ABC in the United States from 1985 to 1989 with a total of 66 episodes. ... Jump to: navigation, search Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... BSB logo British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was a company set up in 1986 to provide direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... This is a list of television-related events in 1993. ...

Premiere screenings

With better programming came greater confidence and bigger budgets, and the channel began to rely more and more heavily on premiere screenings of US series, many of them from Murdoch's Fox Network in the United States. An early hit was The Simpsons, which has been a Sky One fixture ever since. Once the series had accumulated sufficient episodes Sky One began running as many as three episodes every day of the week, with new episodes (if any) usually airing on Sunday. Sky also acquired rights to premiere screenings of the Star Trek franchise, beginning with Season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and also premiered The X-Files in Britain along with episodes of the ever popular Stargate SG-1 . More recently it has acquired seasons 3 and 4 of 24, as well as Stargate Atlantis, Nip/Tuck, Las Vegas, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Rescue Me and the controversial western drama Deadwood has been added to the lineup. The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... Homer, a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, is a generally well-meaning buffoon whose short attention span often draws him into outrageous schemes and adventures. ... http://www. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... Jump to: navigation, search The X-Files was a popular American television series created by Chris Carter. ... Season 8s opening title Spoiler warning: See Stargate for a general summary of this universe, or List of Stargate SG-1 episodes for a detailed plot analysis. ... Jump to: navigation, search 24 is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search Nip/Tuck (premiered July 22, 2003) is an American drama television series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... Las Vegas TV Series poster Las Vegas (not to be confused with Aaron Spellings 1978-81 series Vega$) is a dramatic television series about a team of people working in a Las Vegas casino called The Montecito, dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, be it valet... Jump to: navigation, search Battlestar Galactica is a science fiction miniseries which was first broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on December 8, 2003. ... Rescue Me is an American TV drama-comedy show shown on the FX Network. ... Deadwood is a weekly HBO television drama that premiered in March 2004. ...

Home grown programmes

In recent years Sky One has started commissioning UK-made programming such as Dream Team, a drama series based on a fictional football team; The Strangerers (a science fiction sitcom that was dropped after one series and never repeated despite its high production values); Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please; and Baddiel's Syndrome. Less successful was Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show. It also screens many "reality" shows such as Road Wars and Ibiza Uncovered. It also recently has recieved success with Documentary shows Brainiac: Science Abuse and spin-off, Brainiac: History Abuse. Dream Team is a British television series, aired by Sky One, that chronicles the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United F.C. Fox Soccer Channel (like Sky, a part of News Corporation) airs the series in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article deals with the history and development of the different sports around the world known as football. For links to articles on each of these codes of football, please see the list in the Football today section of this article. ... The science fiction sitcom genre is a relatively new one having started significant growth only during the last few decades of the twentieth century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Al Murray (born 1968) is a British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, the Pub Landlord, a xenophobic public house licensee. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. ... Harry Enfield (born May 30, 1961) is an English comedian educated at the University of York who quickly came to prominence after appearing on Channel 4s Saturday Live in a number of different personae created with Paul Whitehouse. ... Road Wars is a reality television programme produced for British Sky Broadcasting and broadcast on Sky One and Sky Mix. ... Jump to: navigation, search Flag of Eivissa Eivissa or Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. ... Brainiac: Science Abuse is a television programme showing in the UK on Sky One (and repeated on Sky Mix). ...

Recent history

A companion channel, Sky 2, launched on September 1, 1996 but was not a success and closed after just one year, on August 31, 1997. More recently, Sky One Mix (since renamed Sky Mix and to be renamed Sky Two in October 2005) was launched as a "catch-up" channel, screening repeats of key Sky One programmes later in the same week. A second sister channel, Sky Three, is to launch on 31st October 2005. Sky 2 was a now defunct channel from British Sky Broadcasting launched in 1996 as a sister channel to Sky One, opening with an X-Files theme night. ... Jump to: navigation, search September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sky Mix (launched and branded as Sky One Mix until September 21, 2004) is a United Kingdom satellite television channel run by British Sky Broadcasting. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sky Three is a proposed television station from BSkyB, designed to complement their existing Sky One and Sky Mix (to be rebranded as Sky Two) channels. ...

In 2000, a dedicated feed of Sky One for the Republic of Ireland was launched. The only difference between this and the main UK feed is differing commercials and programme promotions. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...

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On September 21st 2004, Sky One relaunched again with another new logo and on-air presentation package. This logo appears to read "SKY Onc" and not Sky One, and as a result, it has been refered to as Sky Onc by a number of media websites, not as typo but as a joke. September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As of 2005 the channel broadcasts 16:9 widescreen programmes in their original format, although all trailers and commercials are in 4:3 due to the fact that they are played off the same servers for all SKY channels, many af which are not yet in widescreen. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 16:9 aspect ratio (also known as widescreen) is an aspect ratio that is 16/9 or 1. ... Jump to: navigation, search A 32inch CRT widescreen television A widescreen image is a film image with a greater aspect ratio than the ordinary 35 millimeter frame. ... 4:3 is a ratio. ...

See also

• British Sky Broadcasting
• Sky Digital

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting) is a company that operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...

External links

• Official website
• Sky Channel & Sky One from the TV Ark
• Sky TV Launch from the TV Ark