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HISTORY OF SKY TV Your favourite broadcaster in the UK began its journey in January 1984 when Satellite Television, Europes first satellite channel, was purchased by Rupert Murdoch and re-launched as Sky Channel. During the years that followed more channels were added including Sky News, Sky Movies, and Eurosport. In 1990 Sky merged with the British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) to become BSkyB. Sky and Digital Media As digital media grew in popularity and capabilities, BSkyB, still known as “Sky” began making the change from analogue to digital. Starting slowly, to help acclimatize its customers, Sky launched Sky Digital on October 1st 1998. With this launch, Sky maintained simultaneous transmission of both analogue and digital signals. In late September of 2001, Sky closed its analogue satellite service, joining the advancing world in the broadcast of only digital signals. Today Sky provides customers with over 100 digital television channels and many digital radio options. Sky and HDTV On Monday, May 22nd 2006 Sky launched their satellite high definition television (HDTV) service. This service is provided as a supplement to Sky packages and is available to those customers who own a Sky HD Box. Today’s Sky Presently Sky operates the largest digital television platform in the UK. Among the hundreds of channels offered to clients, Sky also broadcasts 11 Sky owned and operated channels including:
BSkyB serves over 8 million households, providing digital satellite television, broadband internet, mobile television, and more. |
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