27 Facts About Sky One

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Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group.

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Sky One started on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television Limited, and was Europe's first ever cable and satellite channel, originally broadcasting from the Orbital Test Satellite aimed at cable operators all over the continent.

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On 16 January 1984, Satellite Television Limited was renamed Sky One Channel, incorporating a large number of American imports in its schedules increased the quantity produced of home grown programmes, including a number of new music shows with Gary Davies, Tony Blackburn, Linda de Mol, Pat Sharp, David "Kid" Jensen, and Anthea Turner presenting programmes such as Euro Top 40, and UK Top 50 Chart.

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Sky One Channel aired classic movies, made-for-TV movies and miniseries.

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On 31 July 1989, the channel was renamed Sky One and closed in most European countries, broadcasting only to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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In 1993, Sky One finally replaced its long-running Sunday night drama 21 Jump Street with exclusive premiere of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and later Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Sky One was one of the four last remaining channels on the analogue platform when it was switched off at midnight, 27 September 2001.

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Since 2017, Sky One has broadcast some sports coverage includes a partial simulcast of Soccer Saturday, highlights of, and occasional live coverage of, Formula One motor racing and the occasional live football match.

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The summer of 2019 saw Sky One show highlights of the 2019 Cricket World Cup and live coverage of England's matches in the 2019 Netball World Cup.

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On 1 October 2010, Sky One HD launched on Virgin Media channel 122, with Sky Two moving to channel 123 and Sky Three moving to channel 180 on 22 September 2010, to make way for the new service.

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11.

Sky One focused in science-fiction and other series in the 2000s which did not have a lot of successes, including:.

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12.

Sky One commissioned a two-part Terry Pratchett's Hogfather series for Christmas 2006, this proved to be successful and so in 2008, Sky brought out an adaptation of The Colour of Magic and its second half The Light Fantastic.

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In 2010, Sky One released Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, the 33rd book in The Discworld series.

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Sky One had re-commissioned a number of earlier game shows including Blockbusters, which brought the series back between 30 October 2000 and 23 March 2001 was produced by Grundy and presented by Liza Tarbuck, but did not capture the same degree of popularity as the Bob Holness incarnation.

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On 30 January 2008, Sky One announced plans to bring back the British 1990s combat-based game show Gladiators, which was cancelled in 2009.

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16.

In 2010, Sky One focused on commissioning several quite long-running or well known comedy infused shows, starting with A League of Their Own, An Idiot Abroad and Little Crackers.

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17.

In 2011, Sky One premiered supermarket sitcom Trollied, which had broadcast six series and over 50 episodes, becoming Sky One's longest running comedy series.

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18.

In 2017, Sky One stopped showing factual content and moved to showing more comedy and drama programmes as well as selected sports coverage.

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19.

In 1994, Sky One started their own music show called The Coca Cola Hit Mix hosted by Terry Christian, featuring music news and guests at the time.

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20.

Sky One occasionally screened feature films which were shown with advertisement breaks, as well as several premium movie channels including Sky Cinema and its sister services.

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21.

However, Sky One still held the repeat rights for the early series of both shows for several years.

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22.

From 1989, Sky Channel was the home of World Wrestling Federation in the UK.

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23.

Sky One continued to broadcast an edited one hour version of Raw on Sunday mornings before all WWE programmes moved to rival network BT Sport.

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24.

On 2 September 1990, Sky One launched its hit American animated series The Simpsons which became an signature show and aired continuously on the channel for 31 years until it was ceased in 2021, it had a long association within the series from its early years and remained the exclusive British broadcaster until it showed terrestrially on the BBC between 23 November 1996 and 7 May 2004, having lost the rights to Channel 4 on 18 February 2002.

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25.

Sky One had aired episodes within three days after its US first-run, including "Judge Me Tender" on 27 May 2010.

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26.

Sky One obtained the first-run rights for Star Trek on 1 July 1990, which previously had been with the BBC.

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Sky One bought the first-run rights for other Star Trek shows:.

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