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Timeline of Sky Group

January 01, 1970

This is a timeline of the history of Sky Television.

1970s and 1980s edit

  • 1980
    • Plans for a pan-European satellite television station are put together by Brian Haynes, back by backed by Guinness Mahon and Barclays Merchant Bank and in November Mr Haynes sets up Satellite Television Ltd. (SATV)[2][3]
  • 1981
    • 21 October – SATV begins test transmissions on the Orbital Test Satellite after the European Space Agency allowed the company to test the satellite for the use of commercial television, with an hour of light entertainment in English each night. The low-powered satellite forces it to broadcast to cable systems rather than directly to individual satellite dishes.
  • 1982
    • February – The BBC is awarded two of the five channels DBS satellite channels.[4]
    • 26 April – Satellite Television launches as a pan-European service. The channel was often referred to on-screen as Super Station Europe. However the channel is initially only available in some European countries, with Norway and Finland being the first two countries to permit the new service's transmission via cable, followed by Malta, Switzerland and West Germany.
  • 1983
    • 27 June – News International becomes the majority shareholder of Satellite Television.[5]
    • 16 October – Satellite Television begins broadcasting in the UK.[6]
    • Autumn – Shortly after the Home Secretary announced that the three remaining satellite channels would be given to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to allow the private sector to compete against the BBC, starts talking with the IBA about a joint project to help cover the cost. The Government subsequently gives permission and a consortium emerges consisting of the BBC, Granada, Anglia, Virgin, Thorn EMI, Pearson Longman and Consolidated Satellite Broadcasting. The BBC holds a 50% stake in the consortium.
  • 1984
    • 16 January – Satellite Television is renamed Sky Channel.
    • 25 June – The consortium wanting to launch satellite television announces that the original launch date of 1986 will be delayed until 1989.[7]
  • 1985
    • 15 June – The consortium which has been planning to launch satellite television in the UK collapses on costs grounds.[8]
  • 1986
    • 2 April – The IBA invites bids from the private sector to operate a commercial service on three of the five DBS channels allocated to the UK in 1977 for satellite broadcasting.
    • 11 December – The IBA announces that BSB has been awarded a fifteen-year franchise to operate the satellite television service.[9]
  • 1987
    • No events.
  • 1989
    • 5 February – Sky Television launches at 6.00pm. The channel line-up consists of Sky Channel, Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport.
    • 3 June – Sky Television and The Walt Disney Company come to an arrangement which allows to broadcast movies for a five-year period,[11] this agreement comes a few weeks after plans to create a full-time channel were scrapped, although a Disney-branded version eventually launched on 1 October 1995.[12][13]
    • June – BSB is awarded the other two DBS channel slots, meaning that the service will launch with five channels. These two channels had originally been allocated to the BBC but were handed over for commercial use when the BBC dropped its plans to use the two channels on cost grounds.[8]
    • 31 July – Sky Channel becomes a UK and Ireland-only service and is renamed Sky One although for a short time after the relaunch, some of Sky Channel's former pan-European programming is broadcast in the hours before Eurosport's startup, and the programme block is branded as Sky Europe.

1990s edit

  • 1990
    • 5 February – Sky Movies is fully encrypted, thereby becoming Sky's first pay channel.
    • 11 February – Sky Movies broadcasts its first special event – the boxing fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas.
    • 25 March – BSB launches, but initially only on cable - the channels do not begin broadcasting on satellite until the end of April. Its channels are Galaxy, Now, The Movie Channel, The Sports Channel and The Power Station. BSB had planned to launch in September 1989 but problems with the supply of receiving equipment had delayed the launch.
    • 2 September – Sky One begins airing the American animated series The Simpsons.
    • 2 November – Sky TV and BSB merge. The new company is called BSkyB.[14]
    • 2 December – Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marcopolo satellite by Sky One and Sky News although arts programmes are shown for a short time on Marco Polo as a weekend opt-out service from Sky News so that contractual obligations can be fulfilled. This opt-out service is called Sky Arts.
  • 1992
    • February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News.
    • 18 May – Sky purchases the live rights to the newly formed football Premier League for £304 million.
    • 1 July – Sky sells the Marcopolo satellite to Telenor of Norway for about £30 million.[17]
    • 15 August – Sky Sports launches Sports Saturday. The programme follows the same format as the BBC's Grandstand programme featuring a mix of sporting action, concluding with the day's football results.
    • 16 August – To mark the start of Sky Sports's coverage of the Premier League, the channel launches an afternoon-long football programme called Super Sunday.
    • 1 September –
      • Sky Sports becomes a subscription channel.
      • Sky Movies stops showing non-movies content. It had previously shown selected premium content such as live boxing, music concerts and World Wrestling Federation due to it having been Sky's only encrypted channel and had been known as Sky Movies Plus.
    • 1 October – The Comedy Channel closes and is replaced by Sky Movies Gold, a "classic movies" service is launched as part of Sky Movies package and broadcasts from late afternoon until the early hours, with the first film is shown at 6.00pm on the new network was 1979's Rocky II.
  • 1994

2000s edit

  • 2001
    • The first Sky+ boxes go on sale.
    • 1 July – The Sky Sports.com TV brand is scrapped and the channel reverts to its original name of Sky Sports News.
    • 18 August – PremPlus launches.
    • 2 September – .tv stops broadcasting.
    • September – Sky launches its first personal video recorder, Sky +.
    • 27 September – Sky stops broadcasting via analogue. Sky had originally planned to switch off its analogue service earlier in 2001 but delayed it by three months due to the possibility of lost revenue from the remaining analogue subscribers, thereby giving those customers extra time to switch to Sky's digital service.[26][27] The last channel to stop broadcasting via analogue satellite is Sky One.[28]
    • 1 October – Following its acquisition of interactive service Open...,[29] Sky launches Sky Active.
  • 2002
    • 7 January – Sky News content becomes available on terrestrial television for the first time in a decade when Channel 5 begins simulcasting part of its breakfast news programme Sunrise.[30]
    • 1 March – F1 Digital+ launches. It offers enhanced multi-screen coverage of Formula One on a pay-per-view basis.
    • 1 May – ITV Digital stops broadcasting.
    • 1 July – In another major rebranding of Sky Movies, the Sky Premier channels are renamed Sky Movies Premier, the Sky MovieMax channels become Sky Movies Max and the Sky Cinema channels become Sky Movies Cinema.[31]
    • 30 October – Freeview launches and Sky contributes three channels – Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel – to the platform.
    • 9 December – Sky One Mix launches.
    • 12 December – After just one season, F1 Digital+ closes.[32]
  • 2003
    • February – Sky Travel Shop launches as a full-time travel retail channel.
    • 17 April – Sky launches three music channels – The Amp, Scuzz and Flaunt. The channels are operated on Sky's behalf by CSC Media Group channels.
    • June – The Sky Movies Premier Widescreen channel is closed and the majority of films on the remaining channels are now shown in widescreen.[33]
    • 1 November – The Sky Movies Premier and Sky Movies Max channels are brought under one banner as Sky Movies 1 through 9 and Sky Movies Cinema 1 and 2 become Sky Cinema 1 and 2.[34]
  • 2005
    • 1 January – Sky News takes over the contract to provide Channel 5's news service from ITN. The first scheduled Sky produced news programme had been due to air on 3 January, but two shorter bulletins for 1 and 2 January were hastily added to provide updates following the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day 2004.[35]
    • January – Sky Travel +1 launches.
    • June – Sky takes full control of Artsworld, two years after it bought a 50% stake in the channel.[36]
    • 31 October – Sky One Mix is rebranded as Sky Two, and Sky Three launches on Freeview which replaced Sky Travel.
  • 2006
    • January – Sky launches its online television service Sky By Broadband, which is rebranded later in 2006 to Sky Anytime on PC.
    • 30 January – A tenth Sky Movies channel is launched and Sky Movies starts broadcasting two HD channels. Sky Movies 9 and the new Sky Movies 10 are PIN-protected, meaning that for the first time 15 rated films were able to be shown as early as 5.00pm.[37]
    • 2 March – Alternative/indie music channel The Amp is relaunched as a classic hits channel called Bliss.
    • 22 May –
      • Sky Sports becomes the exclusive broadcaster of all live cricket matches in the UK following the ECB awarding Sky exclusive coverage of all of England's home tests, one-day internationals and Twenty20 Internationals.[38]
      • Sky launches its high definition service when Sky One HD and Sky Sports HD1 begin broadcasting.
    • 31 July – Sky Sports HD2 launches.
    • 3 November – The final edition of Sky News Ireland is broadcast.[39][40]
    • December – Sky sells their three music channels Bliss (previously The Amp), Scuzz, and Flaunt to Chart Show Channels. CSC had previously operated the channels on Sky's behalf.
  • 2007
    • 1 March –
      • The Sky basics channels stop broadcasting on Virgin Media when the two companies cannot agree a new carriage deal.[41]
      • Sky Arts launches, replacing Artsworld.
    • 27 March – Sky launches its on-demand service Sky Anytime.
    • 4 April – Sky Movies is revamped with each channel now covering a specific genre and are renamed. The new line-up is Sky Movies Premiere, Sky Movies Premiere +1, Sky Movies Comedy, Sky Movies Action & Thriller, Sky Movies Family, Sky Movies Drama, Sky Movies Classics, Sky Movies Sci-Fi & Horror, Sky Movies Modern Greats, Sky Movies Indie, Sky Movies HD1 and Sky Movies HD2.[42]
    • 6 May – PremPlus closes.
    • 7 November –
      • Sky Real Lives launches.
      • Sky Travel is relaunched as a holiday retail channel, replacing Sky Travel Shop. Sky Travel +1 is renamed Sky Real Lives +1 and Sky Travel Extra becomes Sky Real Lives 2.[43]
  • 2008
    • 17 March – Sky Sports HD3 launches.
    • 20 March – A HD simulcast of Sky Movies Premiere is launched.
    • 16 May – Sky Anytime on PC is rebranded as Sky Player, along with updated software to include live simulcasts of Sky News and Sky Sports.
    • 18 August – Sky Arts +1 starts broadcasting.
    • 31 August – Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three are renamed Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3 respectively.
    • October – High-definition simulcast channels of Sky Movies Action/Thriller, Sky Movies Sci-Fi/Horror, Sky Movies Drama, Sky Movies Modern Greats, Sky Movies Family and Sky Movies Comedy launch.[44]
    • 20 October – Sky Arts 2 launches and focusses on classical music, opera, dance and fine arts programming.
    • 13 November – The Sky Basics channels return to Virgin Media.[45][46]
  • 2009
    • 26 October – Sky Movies Indie HD launches.[47]

2010s edit

  • 2010
    • 6 January – Sky Sports Xtra is renamed Sky Sports 4.
    • 26 March – Some Sky Movies channels are renamed. Sky Movies Showcase replaces Sky Movies Screen 1, Sky Movies Action & Thriller is renamed Sky Movies Action & Adventure, Sky Movies Drama becomes Sky Movies Drama & Romance and Sky Movies Screen 2 becomes Sky Movies Crime & Thriller.[48]
    • 3 April – Sky 3D launches, although it is initially only available in commercial premises.
    • 29 April – Sky Sports HD4 launches.[49]
    • 6 May – Sky News HD launches.
    • 10 May–9 August – Sky conducts three-month experimental revision of Sky Two, under which Sky Two predominantly operated a one-hour timeshift of programming on Sky One.[50]
    • June –
    • 24 June – Sky Travel closes due to the increased competition from the internet for the holiday retail market.[52]
    • 5 July – Living Loves launches.[53] The channel shows comedy and drama programmes that have recently aired on Living, and broadcasts each day between 3.00pm and 2.00am.
    • 13 July – British Sky Broadcasting buys Virgin Media Television.,[54][55][56] thereby adding several channels, including Channel One, Bravo, Bravo 2, Challenge, Challenge Jackpot and Living to its portfolio.
    • 9 August – Sky Movies Classics HD launches.[57]
    • 19 August – Sky Real Lives closes and some of the factual content shown on the channel moves to Sky 2.
    • 23 August – Sky Sports News stops broadcasting on Freeview[58] and a HD version of the channel is launched.[59] On Freeview, Sky Sports News is replaced by Sky 3 +1.
    • 1 October – Sky 3D becomes available to residential customers for the first time.[60][61]
  • 2011
    • 1 January –
    • 1 February –
    • 28 February – Sky 3 is rebranded as Pick TV.
    • 6 July – Sky Anytime is merged with Sky Mobile and is rebranded as Sky Go.[66] Key changes include the ability to watch live channels in line with your Sky TV subscription at no additional cost, limited to two simultaneous devices.
    • 5 September – Sky Living Loves begins broadcasting 24 hours a day.
    • 20 September – Pick TV +1 is removed from Freeview.[67]
    • 12 October – The final edition of Sky Magazine is published.[68]
    • 8 November – ITN confirms it has secured a five-year contract to resume production of 5 News from early 2012, meaning Sky News will cease to broadcast on the channel from the end of 2011.[69]
  • 2012
    • 21 February – Sky Living Loves stops broadcasting.
    • 9 March – Sky Sports F1 launches.
    • 17 July – Sky launches Now TV. It is launched to provide access to Sky TV to those who have no existing pay TV subscription and do not want to be tied into a contract.[70] The service offered only films at first, adding sports in March 2013,[71] and entertainment channels in October 2013.[72][73]
    • 12 November – Sky One launches a +1 channel although for licensing reasons, The Simpsons is not broadcast on the timeshift channel.[74]
  • 2013
    • 28 March – Sky Movies Disney is launched, effectively replacing Disney Cinemagic.[75] To facilitate the new channel, Sky Movies Classics stops broadcasting, Sky Movies Modern Greats is rebranded as Sky Movies Greats and Sky Movies Indie becomes Sky Movies Select.[76][77]
    • 30 June – Sky Sports launches its first temporary channel Sky Sports Ashes to provide full coverage of the 2013 Ashes Series. Temporary channel renaming of this nature is now common practice within Sky, both for sports and movies.[78]
    • 7 October – Pick TV is rebranded as Pick.
    • 30 October – digital teletext serviceSky Text closes.
  • 2014
    • 12 August –
    • September – Sky Sports News Radio closes.
    • 13 October – Following BSkyB's 2014 acquisition of Sky Italia and a majority 90.04% interest in Sky Deutschland in November 2014, its holding company British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changes its name to Sky plc.[80] The United Kingdom operations also changes the company name from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited, and still trades as Sky.
  • 2015
    • 31 January – Sky Active closes.[81]
    • 9 June –
      • The two Sky Arts channels merge into a single service.[82]
      • Sky 3D closes as a linear channel.[83] with 3D programming transferring to On Demand services.
      • Sky Livingit is rebranded as Real Lives.
  • 2016
    • 9 February – Sky launches its latest set-top box Sky Q.[84] and later in 2016, Sky stops selling its Sky+ HD box to new customers.[85]
    • 8 July – Sky Movies is rebranded as Sky Cinema.[86][87]
    • 13 August – Sky Sports broadcasts its first event in UHD.[88]
    • 24 August – Sky Sports Mix launches. It is available to all Sky customers, and is designed to offer a sampling of content from the full range of Sky Sports networks to non-Sky Sports customers.[89][90]
  • 2017
    • 4 January – Sky Cinema Box Office closes.
    • 18 July – Sky Sports is revamped with the numbered channels being replaced by sports-specific channels. These include two channels dedicated to football, a cricket channel and a golf channel. Other sports are moved to two new channels – Action and Arena – and a showcase channel called Sky Sports Main Event is launched which features simulcasts of the top events being shown on Sky Sports that day.[91] Also, Sky Sports News drops the HQ label.
  • 2018
    • 23 January – Fox's £11.7bn bid to take full control of Sky is provisionally blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) amid concerns of plurality.[92]
    • 14 February – BT and Sky have agreed a £4.4bn three-year deal to show live Premiership football matches from 2019 to 2022, but the amount falls short of the £5.1bn deal struck in 2015.[93]
    • 27 February – US cable TV giant Comcast makes a £22.1bn bid for Sky, challenging the existing offer from 21st Century Fox.[94]
    • 1 March – Pick +1 returns to Freeview.
    • 6 August – Sky Living is rebranded as 'Sky Witness', bringing an end to the Living brand after 25 years.[95]
    • 26 September – 21st Century Fox announces it will sell its 39% stake in Sky UK to Comcast, ending Rupert Murdoch's three decade association with the broadcaster.[96]

2020s edit

  • 2021
    • 6 January – Sky Cinema Premiere +1 resumes broadcasting as Sky Cinema Disney's permanent replacement.
    • 16 March – NOW TV to rebrand as NOW.[107]
    • 1 September –
      • Sky One closes after more than 30 years on air. Its entertainment and drama programmes move to a new channel called Sky Max with its comedy programming moving to Sky Comedy.
      • Sky Showcase launches. It broadcasts a selection of programmes from across Sky’s portfolio of channels as well as selected highlights from Sky Cinema and Sky Sports.[108][109]
    • 18 October – Sky releases Sky Glass, a TV with Sky built-in, thereby removing the need of a set-top-box or a satellite dish.[110]
  • 2022
    • 31 March –
      • Sky stops broadcasting channels in standard definition for the first time when it switches off the SD feed of three Sky Cinema channels - Comedy, Drama and Thriller.[111]
      • The Pick and Syfy timeshift channels close.
    • 26 July – Syfy rebrands as Sky Sci-Fi.[112]
    • 27 July – Sky Sports launches a UHD channel for Sky Sports Main Event.[113]
    • 18 October – Sky launches its new streaming box, Sky Stream, and becomes the second way to receive Sky without in need of a satellite dish.[114]
    • 31 October – Sky sells its stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd. to Paramount Networks EMEAA. The Nickelodeon agreement had contained a non-compete clause that otherwise restricted Sky and Comcast from launching a children's television network while still holding a stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd.[115] Less than a month later, Sky announces plans to launch its own linear kids channel.[116]
  • 2023
    • 13 February – Sky Kids launches and is aimed at children aged 1–7. Apart from promos, the channel doesn't carry any advertisements.[116]
    • 18 October – Pick rebrands as Sky Mix.[117][118]
  • 2024
    • 11 February – Sky Sports Tennis launches, beginning transmission shortly after Sky took over as rights holder to the ATP Tour, WTA Tour and the US Open.[119]
    • August – Sky Sports+ will launch. This will allow Sky to show up to 100 events concurrently. Sky says that this will result in a 50% increase in the amount of sport that Sky will broadcast.[120] A Sky Sports + linear channel will also be available.[121]

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January 01, 1970
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This is a timeline of the history of Sky Television Contents 1 1970s and 1980s 2 1990s 3 2000s 4 2010s 5 2020s 6 See also 7 References1970s and 1980s edit1977 21 October The World Administrative Radio Conference assigns each country five high powered direct broadcast by satellite channels for domestic use 1 1980 Plans for a pan European satellite television station are put together by Brian Haynes back by backed by Guinness Mahon and Barclays Merchant Bank and in November Mr Haynes sets up Satellite Television Ltd SATV 2 3 1981 21 October SATV begins test transmissions on the Orbital Test Satellite after the European Space Agency allowed the company to test the satellite for the use of commercial television with an hour of light entertainment in English each night The low powered satellite forces it to broadcast to cable systems rather than directly to individual satellite dishes 1982 February The BBC is awarded two of the five channels DBS satellite channels 4 26 April Satellite Television launches as a pan European service The channel was often referred to on screen as Super Station Europe However the channel is initially only available in some European countries with Norway and Finland being the first two countries to permit the new service s transmission via cable followed by Malta Switzerland and West Germany 1983 27 June News International becomes the majority shareholder of Satellite Television 5 16 October Satellite Television begins broadcasting in the UK 6 Autumn Shortly after the Home Secretary announced that the three remaining satellite channels would be given to the Independent Broadcasting Authority IBA to allow the private sector to compete against the BBC starts talking with the IBA about a joint project to help cover the cost The Government subsequently gives permission and a consortium emerges consisting of the BBC Granada Anglia Virgin Thorn EMI Pearson Longman and Consolidated Satellite Broadcasting The BBC holds a 50 stake in the consortium 1984 16 January Satellite Television is renamed Sky Channel 25 June The consortium wanting to launch satellite television announces that the original launch date of 1986 will be delayed until 1989 7 1985 15 June The consortium which has been planning to launch satellite television in the UK collapses on costs grounds 8 1986 2 April The IBA invites bids from the private sector to operate a commercial service on three of the five DBS channels allocated to the UK in 1977 for satellite broadcasting 11 December The IBA announces that BSB has been awarded a fifteen year franchise to operate the satellite television service 9 1987 No events 1988 8 June Having failed to become part of the BSB consortium Rupert Murdoch announces plans to launch a four channel service on the soon to be launched Astra satellite 10 11 December The satellite on which Sky Television will broadcast Astra 1A is successfully launched by communications satellite company SES 1989 5 February Sky Television launches at 6 00pm The channel line up consists of Sky Channel Sky News Sky Movies and Eurosport 3 June Sky Television and The Walt Disney Company come to an arrangement which allows to broadcast movies for a five year period 11 this agreement comes a few weeks after plans to create a full time channel were scrapped although a Disney branded version eventually launched on 1 October 1995 12 13 June BSB is awarded the other two DBS channel slots meaning that the service will launch with five channels These two channels had originally been allocated to the BBC but were handed over for commercial use when the BBC dropped its plans to use the two channels on cost grounds 8 31 July Sky Channel becomes a UK and Ireland only service and is renamed Sky One although for a short time after the relaunch some of Sky Channel s former pan European programming is broadcast in the hours before Eurosport s startup and the programme block is branded as Sky Europe 1990s edit1990 5 February Sky Movies is fully encrypted thereby becoming Sky s first pay channel 11 February Sky Movies broadcasts its first special event the boxing fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas 25 March BSB launches but initially only on cable the channels do not begin broadcasting on satellite until the end of April Its channels are Galaxy Now The Movie Channel The Sports Channel and The Power Station BSB had planned to launch in September 1989 but problems with the supply of receiving equipment had delayed the launch 2 September Sky One begins airing the American animated series The Simpsons 2 November Sky TV and BSB merge The new company is called BSkyB 14 2 December Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marcopolo satellite by Sky One and Sky News although arts programmes are shown for a short time on Marco Polo as a weekend opt out service from Sky News so that contractual obligations can be fulfilled This opt out service is called Sky Arts 1991 8 April The Power Station closes at 4 00am and two hours later at 6 00am Sky Movies launches in its place on the Marcopolo satellite 15 April The Movie Channel launches on Astra 1B 20 April Sky Sports launches replacing the BSB Sports Channel 6 May Eurosport briefly closes after the competing Screensport channel had filed a complaint to the European Commission over its corporate structure 15 TF1 Group subsequently steps in to replace BSkyB as Eurosport s joint owners when the service resumes on 22 May Sky Movies and The Movie Channel begin broadcasting 24 hours a day 16 Previously they had been on air from early afternoon until the early hours of the next morning 26 May The final Sky Arts weekend output takes place on the Marco Polo satellite 1 October The Comedy Channel launches 1992 February TV am closes its in house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News 18 May Sky purchases the live rights to the newly formed football Premier League for 304 million 1 July Sky sells the Marcopolo satellite to Telenor of Norway for about 30 million 17 15 August Sky Sports launches Sports Saturday The programme follows the same format as the BBC s Grandstand programme featuring a mix of sporting action concluding with the day s football results 16 August To mark the start of Sky Sports s coverage of the Premier League the channel launches an afternoon long football programme called Super Sunday 1 September Sky Sports becomes a subscription channel Sky Movies stops showing non movies content It had previously shown selected premium content such as live boxing music concerts and World Wrestling Federation due to it having been Sky s only encrypted channel and had been known as Sky Movies Plus 1 October The Comedy Channel closes and is replaced by Sky Movies Gold a classic movies service is launched as part of Sky Movies package and broadcasts from late afternoon until the early hours with the first film is shown at 6 00pm on the new network was 1979 s Rocky II 31 December Sky stops broadcasting via the Marcopolo satellite 1993 1 February BSkyB introduces a new system of film ratings often used for various times replacing the British Board of Film Classification certificates 1 September Sky Multichannels launches 18 1994 19 August Sky Sports 2 launches initially as a weekend only service 3 October Sky Soap and Sky Travel launch as part time weekday channels 1995 1 November Sky Sports Gold launches 1996 16 March The boxing match between Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson is the UK s first pay per view event 16 August Sky Sports 3 launches Sky Sports is renamed Sky Sports 1 Sky Sports Gold closes 1 September Sky 2 and The Computer Channel launch 1 October Granada Sky Broadcasting in conjunction with ITV launches The channel line up consists of Granada Plus Granada Good Life Granada Men amp Motors and Granada Talk TV 1 November A joint venture between Scottish Television and BSkyB results in the launch of Sky Scottish 1997 31 January BSkyB enters into a joint venture with ITV companies Granada Television and Carlton Television to create British Digital Broadcasting BDB so that they can apply to operate three digital terrestrial television DTT licences 19 25 June BSkyB is forced by the Independent Television Commission to pull out of BDB on competition grounds 20 31 August Granada Talk TV and Sky 2 stops broadcasting 1 September Sky Sports 2 becomes a full time service 1 November Sky Movies and The Movie Channel are rebranded under the Sky Movies Screen banner and are now called Sky Movies Screen 1 and Sky Movies Screen 2 21 1 December Sky Box Office launches a four channel near on demand movies service It also carried by Cable amp Wireless chooses not to use the service instead opting for Front Row 1998 1 May Granada Good Life is renamed Granada Breeze 31 May Sky Scottish stops broadcasting 22 15 August On the first day of the 1998 99 football season the first edition of Soccer Saturday is broadcast The afternoon long football scores and results service replaces Sports Saturday 10 September Sky Movies Screen 1 becomes Sky MovieMax Sky Movies Screen 2 becomes Sky Premier and Sky Movies Gold is renamed Sky Cinema 23 1 October Sky Digital launches Sky Sports News launches Sky Movies launches seven more channels and many more Sky Movies Box Office channels start broadcasting 15 November Rival digital television service ONdigital launches and despite Sky no longer being a partner in the venture some Sky channels include Sky One and Sky Sports channels Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 3 Sky Sports 2 is added later and two Sky Movies channels do appear on the service 1999 April Sky Sports launches its interactive service Sky Sports Active 30 April Sky Soap closes June Sky News launches Sky News Radio 22 August Sky Sports Xtra launches initially primarily as an interactive service 24 1 October Sky MovieMax 5 launches 25 2000s edit2000 March Sky News Active launches 10 April Sky Sports News is renamed Sky Sports com TV 2001 The first Sky boxes go on sale 1 July The Sky Sports com TV brand is scrapped and the channel reverts to its original name of Sky Sports News 18 August PremPlus launches 2 September tv stops broadcasting September Sky launches its first personal video recorder Sky 27 September Sky stops broadcasting via analogue Sky had originally planned to switch off its analogue service earlier in 2001 but delayed it by three months due to the possibility of lost revenue from the remaining analogue subscribers thereby giving those customers extra time to switch to Sky s digital service 26 27 The last channel to stop broadcasting via analogue satellite is Sky One 28 1 October Following its acquisition of interactive service Open 29 Sky launches Sky Active 2002 7 January Sky News content becomes available on terrestrial television for the first time in a decade when Channel 5 begins simulcasting part of its breakfast news programme Sunrise 30 1 March F1 Digital launches It offers enhanced multi screen coverage of Formula One on a pay per view basis 1 May ITV Digital stops broadcasting 1 July In another major rebranding of Sky Movies the Sky Premier channels are renamed Sky Movies Premier the Sky MovieMax channels become Sky Movies Max and the Sky Cinema channels become Sky Movies Cinema 31 30 October Freeview launches and Sky contributes three channels Sky News Sky Sports News and Sky Travel to the platform 9 December Sky One Mix launches 12 December After just one season F1 Digital closes 32 2003 February Sky Travel Shop launches as a full time travel retail channel 17 April Sky launches three music channels The Amp Scuzz and Flaunt The channels are operated on Sky s behalf by CSC Media Group channels June The Sky Movies Premier Widescreen channel is closed and the majority of films on the remaining channels are now shown in widescreen 33 1 November The Sky Movies Premier and Sky Movies Max channels are brought under one banner as Sky Movies 1 through 9 and Sky Movies Cinema 1 and 2 become Sky Cinema 1 and 2 34 2004 24 May Sky News launches Sky News Ireland a 30 minute news bulletin for viewers in the Republic of Ireland 11 June At the Races relaunches as a stand alone venture Between 2000 and 2003 the channel had been on air in conjunction with Channel 4 August Football First launches The programme allows viewers to choose the game they want to watch 1 November ITV buys out BSkyB s stake in Granada Sky Broadcasting 2005 1 January Sky News takes over the contract to provide Channel 5 s news service from ITN The first scheduled Sky produced news programme had been due to air on 3 January but two shorter bulletins for 1 and 2 January were hastily added to provide updates following the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 35 January Sky Travel 1 launches June Sky takes full control of Artsworld two years after it bought a 50 stake in the channel 36 31 October Sky One Mix is rebranded as Sky Two and Sky Three launches on Freeview which replaced Sky Travel 2006 January Sky launches its online television service Sky By Broadband which is rebranded later in 2006 to Sky Anytime on PC 30 January A tenth Sky Movies channel is launched and Sky Movies starts broadcasting two HD channels Sky Movies 9 and the new Sky Movies 10 are PIN protected meaning that for the first time 15 rated films were able to be shown as early as 5 00pm 37 2 March Alternative indie music channel The Amp is relaunched as a classic hits channel called Bliss 22 May Sky Sports becomes the exclusive broadcaster of all live cricket matches in the UK following the ECB awarding Sky exclusive coverage of all of England s home tests one day internationals and Twenty20 Internationals 38 Sky launches its high definition service when Sky One HD and Sky Sports HD1 begin broadcasting 31 July Sky Sports HD2 launches 3 November The final edition of Sky News Ireland is broadcast 39 40 December Sky sells their three music channels Bliss previously The Amp Scuzz and Flaunt to Chart Show Channels CSC had previously operated the channels on Sky s behalf 2007 1 March The Sky basics channels stop broadcasting on Virgin Media when the two companies cannot agree a new carriage deal 41 Sky Arts launches replacing Artsworld 27 March Sky launches its on demand service Sky Anytime 4 April Sky Movies is revamped with each channel now covering a specific genre and are renamed The new line up is Sky Movies Premiere Sky Movies Premiere 1 Sky Movies Comedy Sky Movies Action amp Thriller Sky Movies Family Sky Movies Drama Sky Movies Classics Sky Movies Sci Fi amp Horror Sky Movies Modern Greats Sky Movies Indie Sky Movies HD1 and Sky Movies HD2 42 6 May PremPlus closes 7 November Sky Real Lives launches Sky Travel is relaunched as a holiday retail channel replacing Sky Travel Shop Sky Travel 1 is renamed Sky Real Lives 1 and Sky Travel Extra becomes Sky Real Lives 2 43 2008 17 March Sky Sports HD3 launches 20 March A HD simulcast of Sky Movies Premiere is launched 16 May Sky Anytime on PC is rebranded as Sky Player along with updated software to include live simulcasts of Sky News and Sky Sports 18 August Sky Arts 1 starts broadcasting 31 August Sky One Sky Two and Sky Three are renamed Sky1 Sky2 and Sky3 respectively October High definition simulcast channels of Sky Movies Action Thriller Sky Movies Sci Fi Horror Sky Movies Drama Sky Movies Modern Greats Sky Movies Family and Sky Movies Comedy launch 44 20 October Sky Arts 2 launches and focusses on classical music opera dance and fine arts programming 13 November The Sky Basics channels return to Virgin Media 45 46 2009 26 October Sky Movies Indie HD launches 47 2010s edit2010 6 January Sky Sports Xtra is renamed Sky Sports 4 26 March Some Sky Movies channels are renamed Sky Movies Showcase replaces Sky Movies Screen 1 Sky Movies Action amp Thriller is renamed Sky Movies Action amp Adventure Sky Movies Drama becomes Sky Movies Drama amp Romance and Sky Movies Screen 2 becomes Sky Movies Crime amp Thriller 48 3 April Sky 3D launches although it is initially only available in commercial premises 29 April Sky Sports HD4 launches 49 6 May Sky News HD launches 10 May 9 August Sky conducts three month experimental revision of Sky Two under which Sky Two predominantly operated a one hour timeshift of programming on Sky One 50 June Sky Sports Radio launches Sky TV removes Music Choice It had been available on Sky since it launched its digital service in 1998 51 24 June Sky Travel closes due to the increased competition from the internet for the holiday retail market 52 5 July Living Loves launches 53 The channel shows comedy and drama programmes that have recently aired on Living and broadcasts each day between 3 00pm and 2 00am 13 July British Sky Broadcasting buys Virgin Media Television 54 55 56 thereby adding several channels including Channel One Bravo Bravo 2 Challenge Challenge Jackpot and Living to its portfolio 9 August Sky Movies Classics HD launches 57 19 August Sky Real Lives closes and some of the factual content shown on the channel moves to Sky 2 23 August Sky Sports News stops broadcasting on Freeview 58 and a HD version of the channel is launched 59 On Freeview Sky Sports News is replaced by Sky 3 1 1 October Sky 3D becomes available to residential customers for the first time 60 61 2011 1 January Sky closes four of the channels the Bravo channels and Challenge Jackpot that it had bought following its purchase of Virgin Media Television the previous year 62 1 February Sky Atlantic launches 63 64 Channel One closes and its slot on Freeview is given to Challenge Much of Channel One s programming moves to Sky s free to air channel Pick Living is renamed Sky Living and Living Loves is renamed Sky Living Loves 65 28 February Sky 3 is rebranded as Pick TV 6 July Sky Anytime is merged with Sky Mobile and is rebranded as Sky Go 66 Key changes include the ability to watch live channels in line with your Sky TV subscription at no additional cost limited to two simultaneous devices 5 September Sky Living Loves begins broadcasting 24 hours a day 20 September Pick TV 1 is removed from Freeview 67 12 October The final edition of Sky Magazine is published 68 8 November ITN confirms it has secured a five year contract to resume production of 5 News from early 2012 meaning Sky News will cease to broadcast on the channel from the end of 2011 69 2012 21 February Sky Living Loves stops broadcasting 9 March Sky Sports F1 launches 17 July Sky launches Now TV It is launched to provide access to Sky TV to those who have no existing pay TV subscription and do not want to be tied into a contract 70 The service offered only films at first adding sports in March 2013 71 and entertainment channels in October 2013 72 73 12 November Sky One launches a 1 channel although for licensing reasons The Simpsons is not broadcast on the timeshift channel 74 2013 28 March Sky Movies Disney is launched effectively replacing Disney Cinemagic 75 To facilitate the new channel Sky Movies Classics stops broadcasting Sky Movies Modern Greats is rebranded as Sky Movies Greats and Sky Movies Indie becomes Sky Movies Select 76 77 30 June Sky Sports launches its first temporary channel Sky Sports Ashes to provide full coverage of the 2013 Ashes Series Temporary channel renaming of this nature is now common practice within Sky both for sports and movies 78 7 October Pick TV is rebranded as Pick 30 October digital teletext serviceSky Text closes 2014 12 August Sky Sports 5 launches primarily to broadcast European football 79 Sky Sports News is rebranded Sky Sports News HQ September Sky Sports News Radio closes 13 October Following BSkyB s 2014 acquisition of Sky Italia and a majority 90 04 interest in Sky Deutschland in November 2014 its holding company British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changes its name to Sky plc 80 The United Kingdom operations also changes the company name from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited and still trades as Sky 2015 31 January Sky Active closes 81 9 June The two Sky Arts channels merge into a single service 82 Sky 3D closes as a linear channel 83 with 3D programming transferring to On Demand services Sky Livingit is rebranded as Real Lives 2016 9 February Sky launches its latest set top box Sky Q 84 and later in 2016 Sky stops selling its Sky HD box to new customers 85 8 July Sky Movies is rebranded as Sky Cinema 86 87 13 August Sky Sports broadcasts its first event in UHD 88 24 August Sky Sports Mix launches It is available to all Sky customers and is designed to offer a sampling of content from the full range of Sky Sports networks to non Sky Sports customers 89 90 2017 4 January Sky Cinema Box Office closes 18 July Sky Sports is revamped with the numbered channels being replaced by sports specific channels These include two channels dedicated to football a cricket channel and a golf channel Other sports are moved to two new channels Action and Arena and a showcase channel called Sky Sports Main Event is launched which features simulcasts of the top events being shown on Sky Sports that day 91 Also Sky Sports News drops the HQ label 2018 23 January Fox s 11 7bn bid to take full control of Sky is provisionally blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority CMA amid concerns of plurality 92 14 February BT and Sky have agreed a 4 4bn three year deal to show live Premiership football matches from 2019 to 2022 but the amount falls short of the 5 1bn deal struck in 2015 93 27 February US cable TV giant Comcast makes a 22 1bn bid for Sky challenging the existing offer from 21st Century Fox 94 1 March Pick 1 returns to Freeview 6 August Sky Living is rebranded as Sky Witness bringing an end to the Living brand after 25 years 95 26 September 21st Century Fox announces it will sell its 39 stake in Sky UK to Comcast ending Rupert Murdoch s three decade association with the broadcaster 96 2019 1 January Sky Sports Racing launches replacing At The Races 97 98 1 October Sky Crime launches 99 It replaces Real Lives 2020s edit2020 27 January Sky Comedy launches replacing Universal TV 99 27 May Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature launch 100 101 History and History 2 which operate as a joint venture between Sky and A amp E Networks are rebranded as Sky History and Sky History 2 respectively 102 1 June Challenge 1 closes 103 better source needed 23 July Sky Cinema Animation launches Sky Cinema Animation SD replaces Sky Cinema Premiere 1 while Sky Cinema Animation HD is a new channel 104 27 August Sky Replay replaces Sky Two 17 September Sky Arts launches on Freeview and Freesat thereby becoming a free to air channel 105 30 December Sky Cinema Disney closes 106 It is replaced with a temporary channel called Sky Cinema Five Star Movies 2021 6 January Sky Cinema Premiere 1 resumes broadcasting as Sky Cinema Disney s permanent replacement 16 March NOW TV to rebrand as NOW 107 1 September Sky One closes after more than 30 years on air Its entertainment and drama programmes move to a new channel called Sky Max with its comedy 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