There is nothing like this anymore. Best channel ever!.. and even with commercials it was just so coool to have. Now all channels are the same, and they wonder why viewer numbers is shrinking??? Its not just Netflix, but the content on todays commercial tv channels. They are dull!... Please bring back SKY Channel now!... I wish!...
Used to wake up every morning just for this intro before Fun Factory or even The DJ Kat show . I also recall an advert for a Hat that had a built in Radio
Brings. Back. Memories.....!!! I SAW this opening!! It was a series of vignettes shown on the weekends as the channel started its programming. I was 9 and even set my alarm clock to get up at 8.00 for Fun Factory. It's important to understand the context here. We had just gotten cable TV a few months earlier, and I was used to the horrible childrens' programming on our previous TWO (!) Swedish public service channels - TV1 and TV2. The kid's TV in Sweden at that time was mostly made up of a bunch of drab "made for kids" still image documentaries about kids with Down's Syndrome, troubled kids, often followed by some old lady reading a book in a studio, or some Czech stop motion animated dolls - not only insanely boring but also depressing, and seemed to all focus on everyday grief, everyday problems, school, or about kids in other countries facing war or some injustice. Fun Factory meant four *hours* of almost non-stop cartoons, new and classic, carefree, fun and entertaining. And it ended with The Transformers - my reason for living back then.
OMG! this, the fun factory and also the DJ Cat Show. brings back memory's for me to. I'm from the Netherlands and i aslo set my alarm and sneaked downstairs to watch. awesome to see again
Same for me. I just found this and I could still reproduce most of the music here! =D I loved the Fun Factory (mostly because of Inspector Gadget and Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors). But I came down early for this intro. =D
Did you also do the summer one? I think that was filmed in The Netherlands (at least parts of it). And if you know the name of the audio track, that'd be great ;). I know the theme when the clock was on (shown just before or after this intro when startup was a bit early) is "Score" by Richard Myhill, but I can't seem to find this track.
This sounds too much like a piece of production music by Richard Myhill of KPM Music to not be him - keeping in mind Sky also used his track "Score" for the clock opening, most likely played directly before this title... It wouldn't seem too strange. Always wanted to know the name of this track playing.
Wow, good call! Do you happen to know the title of the track that plays during the winter sports montage? I think it's from the KPM library as well but I can't find it on iTunes.
RediffusionMusic yep, I have most of that library (including “Score” in both versions) but I’ve been looking for the “montage” music for a while now. Still no luck and of course no one at Sky nowadays even seems to know this even existed. My guess it’s also a library track (everything from those idents seems to be), but it could very well be an original composition for Sky.
@@RyanGonTV Thanks. And that technology is basically the same today? People having dishes, decoders, cables etc. I said bye to traditional TV ages ago. It's internet, computers, streaming.
It was propper retro tv... But the current owners of Sky which are Comcast(NBC/Universal)COULD bring back this channel & Super Channel however the Big Question is would most people be willing to pay for 60s 70s 80s & probably now 90s tv content.
It is infact older in Norway, because it was named Satellite Television first before it was renamed to Sky in 1984. Then the channel started to broadcast to Swindon Cable TV operator in UK, but before that it was only broadcasting to Norway and Finland. European satellite tv started a bit weird and then in 1989 Sky became totally british, which lead to removing Sky Channel from most of Norwegian cable tv operators. Then it was renamed to Sky Europe for us, which was a tiny tv channel broadcasting only 3-4 hours in the morning before Eurosport.
There is nothing like this anymore. Best channel ever!.. and even with commercials it was just so coool to have. Now all channels are the same, and they wonder why viewer numbers is shrinking??? Its not just Netflix, but the content on todays commercial tv channels. They are dull!... Please bring back SKY Channel now!... I wish!...
It wasn't making money that main reason it went down the road it did :-(
Sky Channel and the british MusicBox - lots of memories to the first days of Satellite TV also in germany.
Never understood why Sky and Super Channel stop excisting....Miss these 2 channels so much😭
when you rembering this and you are thinking, this was incredible, then you not a teenager more..even not in the 20s..
Nostalgia... this always appeared I watched Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons at Fun Factory show 🤗
I come back to listen to the music.
Used to wake up every morning just for this intro before Fun Factory or even The DJ Kat show . I also recall an advert for a Hat that had a built in Radio
Eurochart top 50 at 1730. I can't miss that.
Brings. Back. Memories.....!!!
I SAW this opening!! It was a series of vignettes shown on the weekends as the channel started its programming. I was 9 and even set my alarm clock to get up at 8.00 for Fun Factory.
It's important to understand the context here. We had just gotten cable TV a few months earlier, and I was used to the horrible childrens' programming on our previous TWO (!) Swedish public service channels - TV1 and TV2. The kid's TV in Sweden at that time was mostly made up of a bunch of drab "made for kids" still image documentaries about kids with Down's Syndrome, troubled kids, often followed by some old lady reading a book in a studio, or some Czech stop motion animated dolls - not only insanely boring but also depressing, and seemed to all focus on everyday grief, everyday problems, school, or about kids in other countries facing war or some injustice.
Fun Factory meant four *hours* of almost non-stop cartoons, new and classic, carefree, fun and entertaining. And it ended with The Transformers - my reason for living back then.
Someone is nostalgialised! :)
***** ME!!! It's ME!!! xD
Yeah! XD
OMG! this, the fun factory and also the DJ Cat Show. brings back memory's for me to. I'm from the Netherlands and i aslo set my alarm and sneaked downstairs to watch. awesome to see again
Same for me. I just found this and I could still reproduce most of the music here! =D I loved the Fun Factory (mostly because of Inspector Gadget and Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors). But I came down early for this intro. =D
Back in the day, this was the UK equivalent of Turner Broadcasting System in the US
Can someone starts this channel again with same "unclear" spot like the 80s..pls..miss it.
Thanks for this, brings back great memories. That’s my girlfriend holding the clapper board and my name as the director 😎
Did you also do the summer one? I think that was filmed in The Netherlands (at least parts of it).
And if you know the name of the audio track, that'd be great ;). I know the theme when the clock was on (shown just before or after this intro when startup was a bit early) is "Score" by Richard Myhill, but I can't seem to find this track.
I did film the summer one, started in Paris, Switzerland, Germany, and ended up in Holland but can’t remember the track,
ahh Nostalgic:) Love this intro!1987
wow i loved fun factory
Oh man the childhood memories... ❤🥹😭🥲
This sounds too much like a piece of production music by Richard Myhill of KPM Music to not be him - keeping in mind Sky also used his track "Score" for the clock opening, most likely played directly before this title... It wouldn't seem too strange. Always wanted to know the name of this track playing.
I was close... but wrong by a last name! The track is called Triumph - and it's by Richard Harvey... from the KPM Music library!
Wow, good call! Do you happen to know the title of the track that plays during the winter sports montage? I think it's from the KPM library as well but I can't find it on iTunes.
@@heroicnonsense I don't 😔 I do know the "clock music" before this is Richard Myhill - Score
RediffusionMusic yep, I have most of that library (including “Score” in both versions) but I’ve been looking for the “montage” music for a while now. Still no luck and of course no one at Sky nowadays even seems to know this even existed.
My guess it’s also a library track (everything from those idents seems to be), but it could very well be an original composition for Sky.
It was satellite TV but I got in on cable. How's that? Great memories anyhow.
Cable companies paid for license to rebroadcast sky channel and then received it at the cable company with a dish and sent down the cable
@@RyanGonTV Thanks. And that technology is basically the same today? People having dishes, decoders, cables etc. I said bye to traditional TV ages ago. It's internet, computers, streaming.
@@Underhills today I think it’s like IPTV into the cable headend then sent down the line, more efficient than having multiple dishes at Cable HQ.
Remember West Germany?
Yes I lived and still live there. 😜
So good
Sky Channel Intro (1987)
also nostalgic the video they had in the end of the schedule in the evening/night
do some know what the tittle is of the intro?
Is there a video for 1989 with the electric guitar and the choir "europe's nr 1"?
It looks like a sfw promo for a 1985 Color Climax movie!
It was propper retro tv...
But the current owners of Sky which are Comcast(NBC/Universal)COULD bring back this channel & Super Channel however the Big Question is would most people be willing to pay for 60s 70s 80s & probably now 90s tv content.
That is a good question. Don't suppose anything from the 2000's onwards could be used.
THE DEADLY EARNEST HORROR SHOW!
Funny and scary, well for a kid anyway.
It was good in the mid 90’s mainly because ITV dropped the likes of LA Law and 90210. My contract is up in March and I can’t wait to cancel it
i didnt know sky was that old
SKY 1 is the oldest cable/sat channel in UK
It is infact older in Norway, because it was named Satellite Television first before it was renamed to Sky in 1984. Then the channel started to broadcast to Swindon Cable TV operator in UK, but before that it was only broadcasting to Norway and Finland. European satellite tv started a bit weird and then in 1989 Sky became totally british, which lead to removing Sky Channel from most of Norwegian cable tv operators. Then it was renamed to Sky Europe for us, which was a tiny tv channel broadcasting only 3-4 hours in the morning before Eurosport.
Distrita TV that's when Days of our lives would air.
The laughing hourse The Intoucheballs..
West Germany!
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