Remembering Lifestyle - including Final Closedown
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- Опубліковано 28 лют 2018
- The early part of 1993 saw a number of channels which had been at the forefront of the cable and satellite revolution sadly going to the wall. Amongst them was Lifestyle, a channel for women operated by WH Smith, and fronted in the main by His Diddiness, David Hamilton.
Here we have a collection of links, menus and trailers from the week before closedown, as well as the final moments of the channel before the butterfly meets its terrible fate.
Like Screensport (which was also owned by WH Smith, and closed just over a month after Lifestyle) the channel also chose to bow out with a roll of honour for all the people who had worked on the service.
Next day, Lifestyle's transponder on the Astra satellite transferred to the German language news channel Vox, which still exists today, although without quite so much news on it. - Фільми й анімація
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Remember watching this channel as a kid. Loved watching the gameshows like tic tac toe n the jokers wild. Plus it had some programmes u wudnt really see on terrestrial TV. Great memories thanks for sharing this
I liked this channel. It was quite brave with some if its (very cheap) output. I especially liked the old US gameshows from the era when these shows were great (70s mainly). Shame it closed, nothing since has really been like it.
Also, who can forget Dr. Ruth ? Happy Days !!
My family had Videotron cable back in the late 80s/early 90s too (West London). I remember the scrolling messages they put on screen on some channels as shown here.
This entire video lives in my head rent-free. Even though I never watched it as I wasn’t old enough when it ended, I kind of wish it had continued just because the idents are so cute and calming.
Also there really aren’t many of the original UK satellite channels remaining - even Sky One is no more!
I KNOW!!! IT'S STUPID
The bumpers for Lifestyle are gorgeous. Nothing says girly simplicity like a butterfly made of ribbons with calming music in the background.
Also, the closedown starts at 6:38 and the credits are at 8:07
It doesn't surprise me that Lifestyle had such colourful idents alongside a pastel butterfly and a feminine colour palette. The channel was aimed at women after all.
Classic concentration will always stick well in the memory, fantastic gameshow. That, Jeep Wrangler, and Captain Power! are my over riding memories of Lifestyle.
8:34 A sad send off with the poor butterfly exploding into thin air...
It's definitely a sad tribute with the poor butterfly exploding into thin air.
Sad.... 😢 😭
He is not poor, he is happy.
@@andjelkodukic2858 he’s living in Germany word has it
@@smophie6260 yeah
I like the restful music and pastel colour butterfly of Lifestyle.
I remember it in the early 80's, it was broadcast in the clear across Europe on satellite and if you had a motorised dish system, you could pick it up for free, I tuned it in, in stereo, on 7.02 / 7.20 MHz using Wegener 🐼 1 mode for sound de-emphasis and it reduced much of the hiss. Audio was better quality too. It originally broadcast for 4 hours a day 9am-1pm.
Childhood memories! My aunt had cable then. Cheers
Too bad this channel is dead, their idents and bumpers where so calming and sweet..... :(
Sadly there's only about 3 channels left that were on pre 1989 cable Sky 1 MTV and the Discovery Channel
I liked those discovery channel promos and idents back then and it was only on air 4pm- midnight
MTV isn't MTV anymore.
Sky 1 gone 2021
Sky One tragically died at the end of last summer (2021). Only its Italian counterpart survives.
Also dead or dying (presumably because of Disney plus) are the Disney Channels around the world.
We are slowly losing historic channels.
Also I'm unsure if Warner Bros is controlling Discovery (Italian channels owned by Discovery have now the Warner Bros thing alongside Discovery) so I think the pre 1989 cable era is gone if they kill (or rename) the Discovery Channel...
Although this happens, the terrestrial TV's story still is unharmed since the BBC is staying even if they got a knock-off logo (the 1997 logo is better).
Sadly sky one is no more! 😢
Kate Ricketts sadly died far too young, in 2011 from breast cancer.
Apparently the female presenter passed away 10 years ago-couldn't have been very old. Probably about the same age Diddy was here, most likely younger.
:(
The Vox thing says “Starting at 25.1.1993 on this channel”
Is it Undecember 1 or January 25? I'm a bit confused over here...
@@ChampToonkles263 January 25th
We really got a great exchange when this closed down. Replaced by a news channel we wouldn't be able to understand.
A German news channel
the idents are so lovely and lively, an cute butterfly in pastel colors with calm music, is so sleeping-aid stuff. the weekend version is so 90's tho, but it's fun and energy-maker, if you know what i mean. sad i wasn't born not in the 90s, nor the 80s, NOT EVEN THE 70s! but if i went to UK and be a lot younger and watched that channel, this might had been exciting.
LOL.. "Where could I stick it?!…"
I would never have closed down Lifestyle and Screensport at all.
I would have kept them going and at the same time introduced four additional European language soundtracks on Lifestyle keeping the English stereo sound on 7.02/7.20 MHz -
French on 7.38 MHz,
German on 7.56 MHz,
Dutch on 7.74 MHz,
and Spanish on 7.92 MHz to follow in the footsteps of Screensport's Pan European model and i'd sign up cable networks in those 4 European markets to carry it from Astra.
Everywhere else's catv system in reach of Astra 1A satellite coverage can carry Lifestyle if they want to and i'd encourage European Astra satellite dish viewers all across Europe to contact the channel as well, and give them a mention on screen too.
But you'd still be operating *at a loss*. Sinking more money into short term improvements that wouldn't help in the long run is not a good business plan at all.
@@sillygoose635 But the channel was intended for a Pan-European audience and Lifestyle's target market was Europe as mentioned in the Astra Info channel. WHSTV wasn't losing money, they just made the decision to pull out of television altogether. There originally was a plan to encrypt Screensport and Lifestyle from the outset at Astra 1A's launch using a yearly subscription through TV Direct but this plan was never explored......and this was mentioned in the Astra 1A pre launch promotional VHS video that was sent to prospective satellite dealers in early 88 way ahead of the launch along with Astra Satellite promotional material.
If you were going to aim Lifestyle and Screensport at a Pan European audience via subscription, the only way to do this is to sell subscriptions cards and decoders through European satellite dealers in reach of the Astra 1A reception zone throughout Northern Western Central and Eastern Europe, which is the area Astra 1A transmitted to.
@@anthonyperkins7556 While WHSTV wasn't losing money, its channels were, Lifestyle was closed due to low ratings and Screensport merged with Eurosport because they were both losing money. It doesn't really matter how it would have been encrypted if there wasn't an audience.
@@sillygoose635 Lifestyle was more a failure than Screensport as it had poorer ratings which sealed the channels fate, nothing to do with losing money as it was a free-to-air Pan European satellite channel on board the Astra 1A satellite which only made money from CATV carriage from CATV networks in range of the Astra Satellite but didn't make money from direct-to-home satellite dish reception as it was transmitted for free and in PAL clear unencrypted.
Screensport was very popular across Europe with sports fans on Astra 1A but again only made its money from CATV operators in reach of the Astra 1A satellite whin wished to carry the service i.e usually those who carried the channel in one of the various transmitted language soundtracks 7.02-7.56 MHz in the channels main markets being a Pan-European channel whereas with direct-to-home Astra satellite dish viewers again this was transmitted in PAL Clear and free-to-air unencrypted via Astra 1A.
Despite what you say, there WAS a plan to make money from the outset as I mentioned by offering Lifestyle and Screensport together as a subscription service annually at £49.95 via TV Direct who would handle the subscriptions and the plan was initially to offer those two services encoded in MAC format as a two channel package with a free decoder offered to subscribers who subscribed to the service (and this was mentioned in the earliest Astra Satellite promotional video which was sent on a VHS video cassette to prospective satellite reception equipment dealers who wished to offer Astra satellite equipment to their customers i.e. usually crappy rubbish sparklie prone Amstrads in the early days, and the video was also sent to CATV operators wanting to carry the service from Astra to their subscribers).
However, this plan to offer Screensport and Lifestyle via a annual subscription never came to pass nor did it come to fruition and from day one both WHSTV channels were offered in the clear free to air unencrypted using clear PAL format which offered better picture quality viewed on RGB Scart connection or fair quality fuzzy composite PAL via crappy RF aerial connection or via CATV networks which carried them on RF anyway (the early cable boxes didn't have Scart or AV connections just RF for a television and connections for a hi-fi system hookup to hear satellite programmes in stereo on FM from TV soundtracks usually movie and music channels mainly and for some lucky subscribers, possibly additional satellite radio channels subject to availability and whether they were offered on that CATV system, Astra had several high quality satellite radio services in mono and stereo encoded in Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction on their audio subcarriers and some CATV operators would also offer these to subscribers on FM frequencies via a hi-fi or radio tuner hooked up to the CATV network).
WHSTV sold its stake in Screensport to Eurosport resulting in a merger i.e for merger actually read 'takeover' because that's what effectively happened, as it couldn't afford the crippling cost of television sports rights on its own and as a result, Screensport therefore closed the channel at midnight UK / 1am CET on February 29th 1993 with the final programme being the Tur Espànà Masters Golf Tournament.
Both Astra channels 1 and 4 (11.214 GHz / H and 11.258 GHz / V) from 1st March 1993 duplicated the newly merged service for a number of weeks with on-screen announcements that the new service would only broadcast on Astra tp 4 11.258 GHz / V from a certain date and then SES Astra allocated transponder 1 11.214 GHz / H to new German satellite service RTL-2 leaving Eurosport to continue operations on Astra channel 4.
8:34
The butterfly dies~
A parting gift and he didn't put his hand in his pocket and buy her something decent. An old teapot from the set. Mind you it could have been worse, it could have been one of the wigs he's been wearing since his days on Top of the Pops!
I remember watching this a lot around 1990/1991-they were showing World Class wrestling shows from 1982 & Roller Derby on Sundays after the religious programming they shared the channel with finished their slot. In the week it was Judge William B Keene doing Divorce Court, Sally Jessy etc. At nighttime they had Satellite Jukebox with most people requesting the topless/nude videos.
I hope if here of the telecommunications inc. Changes these into these.
Here
Note that change is fake.
Also... Kate May Say.. From Tomorrow Our Programs Are Moving Into UK Style And The Launch of the News And Weather Channel United Kingdom News Network.
Loved Lifestyles Satellite Jukebox.
My God- "Brachen", with Gabriel Byrne. That was on Irish telly here in the early 80s! Anyhoo- I wonder if someone can help here. In late 92, we had this very channel, and when it ended for the day, there was a series of infomercials that ran for a couple of hours each nite. The "Amazing Discoveries" series featured each nite, alongside many others. For nostalgia, does anyone remember those informercials? Ive since seen the Amazing Discoveries online here, but the other ones- some English too, I think- Ive not seen since. Love classic telly footage, so if ya know about what Im on about here, drop a mention here.😃👍
The Weekend Lifestyle ident's music is eerily similar to the level completion jingle in Super Mario Bros.
3:11 why such a terrifying font
1. When was the Jackpot episode with the message aired? Was it on the day of the shutdown?
2. I assume that the Jackpot message was also added by the cable provider. Correct me if I’m wrong.
1. I do not know, I will try to find out if it was.
2. Again, I don't know.
1. The episode shown here was aired during 1982, but if you mean was it aired as one of the last programs, yes.
RIP Kate Ricketts (1967-2011)
I love it (even though I was not born) I would've loved it shame it closedown 😢😭😢
something for everyone
9:36 that screen makes me wanna go aw man
**sanctuary guardian plays**
what the fuck where did the butterfly go
Tippi from Super Paper Mario meets its terrible fate...but this time, in the UK.
When did Lifestyle air in Germany? I saw the VOX logo at 3:07
Bro,I don’t know
It didn’t, VOX replaced lifestyle around the date of this airing, if anything it’s probably just a bumper teasing the new station
Lifestyle was on Astra 1 from March 1989 on. So it was available across Europe. Many Cable Networks in Germany also carried Lifestyle as they did with Screensport/Sportkanal. Cablenetworks received Vox from the DFS-Kopernikus satellite since Vox was time-sharing with sell-a-vision on Astra. This shopping Program continued until March 1999 when Vox gained full 24h control of Transponder 5.
Fun fact: After this final closedown and the Vox announcement Lifestyle satellite Jukebox had its final night from 22.00 on until early morning when SES switched to Vox in the middle of a videoclip.
Actual exchange with my dad from when I watched this on the family TV
Dad “What are you watching?”
Me: “The end of Lifestyle. It went off the air when you were 18”
Dad: “I don’t remember it”
Me: “because this literally aired in a different country
G.L.O.W. - Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling! World Class Championship Wrestling! Roller derby! My adolescent Saturdays fighting with my dad for television supremacy because he wanted to watch golf! 😃👍❤️
Vox? What in the world was Vox?!
A German TV channel.
@@cupcakefairy87 Oh okay. Thanks for telling me 😃
@@MediaCentUK It mostly broadcasts news and TV series. It still exists to this day.
@@cupcakefairy87 I didn't know that
would things have turned out differently had they made it to the multichannels stage?
If WHSTV had adopted encryption, and made it available to European viewers as well as those in the UK via a nominal £12 a year package with official decoders and paid for by equivalent currencies on the continent via countries in reach of the Astra 1A satellite, (and Screensport and Lifestyle were aimed at a Pan European audience as well as UK viewers with Astra dishes), then they would probably would have lasted longer.
Used to watch Supermarket Sweep on Lifestyle, way better than the UK version.
Lifestyle Channel From 1987 Has Game Shows
The same Vox that showed Evangelion in 2000.
RIP Lifestyle...
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What happened to Lifestyle
Just ask low ratings.
It was replaced by VOX, a German news channel that began transmissions on January 25th, 1993. It still runs to this day.
We have just been informed by the owners of LIFESTYLE that this channel will permanently Closedown at 8pm on SUNDAY, JANUARY 24th. "We apologize for the unforeseen loss of this channel which is entirely beyond Videotron's control. III"
Ab 25.1.1993 anf diesem kanal: What?
"From 25 January 1993 on this channel".
I think it actually means: "Launching 25.1.1993 on this frequency."
GERMANY IN UK?
It was supposed to be a German language channel for those who speak it
@@smophie6260 tht i comen oun meh phoen
@@smophie6260owned by RTL Group
i still find it stupid they replaced this with a news channel...a news channel that became a place for dumb crime dramas and paranormal shows....ew.
Brilliant words
I think, when Metroid Dread gets released, the revival will happen with the new name: "Lifestyle: The New Lifetime Network."
The original UK home of GLOW.......!
8:56 what's happening here?
Basically Vox replaced lifestyle, these played during airing to inform viewers whom might watch Vox, (primarily German speakers)
3:08 What kind of a creepy song is this?
Vox's 'Requiem for Lifestyle' perhaps? It certainly sounds like one.
Probably some traditional German hymn
HOW MANY YEARS OF MEMORIES
8 or so
It launched on the 30th October 1985, and closed on the 23rd January 1993. So 8 years on air in total.
@@ItsABeautifulDay. Actually, it's the 24th.
Never got this. Both this and Screensport were owned by Whsmith but no store advertised them or offered the sale of satellite dishes but happily sold tat like spectrum and amstrad computers
Lifestyle was owned by WHSTV. Low ratings for both was what led to WHSmith to get out of television altogether focusing on their retail sector.
Screensport-TESN was co-owned by both WHSTV and Capital Cities/ABC which did supply ESPN's programming on here. WHSmith sold off Screensport to the EBU, with the other half being Capital Cities/ABC which was merged into Eurosport at the beginning of March 1993.
Eurosport did continue to show ESPN programming when Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications sold its stake back to the EBU in 1998.
Why did it shutdown
Due to declining viewership
@@smophie6260 ok
@@smophie6260 I remember that this came in a short notice back then. OK WHSmith had some trouble with Screensport-TESN (Screensport vs Eurosport/EBU), but I guess they didn't want to run Lifestyle only. I wonder if there were plans at any time to start on the sky Multichannels platform which started few months later.
Lifestyle had announced "to be encrypted in the near future" for years.
The viewership was low. So after reviewing both this and screensport (which would merge with eurosport, thus closing.) They decided to close this channel.
@@ItsABeautifulDay. too bad, had lots of promise.
sun jan 24th
Is this the same bloke that used to present Top Of The Pops? If it is, how did he fall so far down the totem pole? I would've thought he would've been BBC royalty what with being a Radio 1 D.J. And all. If it ain't the same bloke, I take it all back.
He is the same person. Think he became out of fashion at Radio 1 in the 80s.
I think so.
He use to present TVS All clued up gameshow ( remember that dreaded stinger ) lol
He left BBC Radio 2 in 1986 after they changed their music policy. Radio 1 was already growing with its audience and had lost its youth focus. So Radio 2 went even older, going back to the 40s and 50s for the most part. David Hamilton described the music policy as "geriatric".
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Why did it shutdown
well, lifestyle never had an good audience, so that's why they closed down.