Sky Arts is a British free-to-air television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, movies, documentaries and music.
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13 Facts About Sky Arts
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Sky Arts subsequently bought out the remaining shareholders and in June 2005 took full control, reducing the staff further, and dropping the channel's premium subscription fee shortly afterwards.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Sky Arts collaborated with Seventh Art Productions to create Tim Marlow on.
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In 2013, Sky Arts launched a painting competition series Portrait Artist of the Year presented by Frank Skinner and Joan Bakewell.
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In 2015 Sky Arts introduced a development of the competition for landscape painters called Landscape Artist of the Year in association with National Trust.
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On 9 June 2015, Sky Arts 2 closed and merged its content with Sky Arts 1 to form one channel.
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On 17 September 2020, Sky Arts launched on Freeview and Freesat as a free-to-air service.
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Sky Arts focused on the more modern and independent side of Sky Arts' programming.
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Sky Arts +1 began broadcasting on 18 August 2008, filling the Performance Channel's EPG slot until the full launch of Sky Arts 2 on 20 October 2008.
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From 30 March to 14 April 2013, Sky Arts 2 was temporarily rebranded as Sky Arts Rieu in honour of Andre Rieu, broadcasting back-to-back concerts by the violinist.
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On 9 June 2015, at 06:00 UTC+1, Sky Arts 2 closed after showing its final classical music programme followed by promos for the new merged channel.
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Originally, Sky Arts was planned as a full channel on the Astra 1A satellite at the beginning of the Sky Television service back in 1989.
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The service was only seen by former BSB viewers, since Sky Arts did not interrupt Sky News on the existing Astra satellite service.
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