(Go: >> BACK << -|- >> HOME <<)
Wikipedia

Sky One

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 213.40.117.71 (talk) at 23:20, 5 November 2023 (Accurate). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This article is about the retired British TV channel. For the Italian version, see Sky Uno. For the Germany & Austria version, see Sky One (Germany). For the New Zealand TV channel formerly called Sky 1, see Sky 5. For the fictional aircraft, see UFO (TV series).

{{Infobox television channel | name = INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

As Jason watches the detailed news report on Channel 5 regarding the fire at the ITV studios, he absorbs the significant timeline of events.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire at the ITV studios was first reported at 9:39 PM, originating in the control room. As of the current time, it is 12:21 AM.

Jason is taken aback by the extent of time that has passed since the fire was first detected.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire subsequently spread to the broadcasting room at 11:21 PM, and ITV's broadcast was disrupted at 12:10 AM, during ITV News Calendar.

JASON (shocked) This situation has been ongoing for hours.

He continues to watch the news report, hoping for information about the efforts to contain the fire and the well-being of the staff involved at the ITV studios.

| logo = Sky One - Logo 2020.png | logo_size = 250px | logo_caption = Final logo, used from 2020 to 2021 | launch_date = 26 April 1982 (1982-04-26) | closed_date = 1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)
(39 years, 4 months and 6 days) | owner = Sky Group (Comcast) | sister_channels = List of Sky UK channels | picture_format = HDTV 1080i
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SD feed) | country = United Kingdom

| area =

| replaced_by = Sky Showcase (channel)
Sky Max (programming)

| former_names =

  • Satellite Television (1982–1984)
  • Sky Channel (1984–1989)
  • Sky 1 (1996–1997, 2011–2017)
  • Sky1 (2008–2011)

|INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

As Jason watches the detailed news report on Channel 5 regarding the fire at the ITV studios, he absorbs the significant timeline of events.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire at the ITV studios was first reported at 9:39 PM, originating in the control room. As of the current time, it is 12:21 AM.

Jason is taken aback by the extent of time that has passed since the fire was first detected.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire subsequently spread to the broadcasting room at 11:21 PM, and ITV's broadcast was disrupted at 12:10 AM, during ITV News Calendar.

JASON (shocked) This situation has been ongoing for hours.

He continues to watch the news report, hoping for information about the efforts to contain the fire and the well-being of the staff involved at the ITV studios.

'INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

As Jason watches the detailed news report on Channel 5 regarding the fire at the ITV studios, he absorbs the significant timeline of events.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire at the ITV studios was first reported at 9:39 PM, originating in the control room. As of the current time, it is 12:21 AM.

Jason is taken aback by the extent of time that has passed since the fire was first detected.

NEWS ANCHOR (on the TV screen) The fire subsequently spread to the broadcasting room at 11:21 PM, and ITV's broadcast was disrupted at 12:10 AM, during ITV News Calendar.

JASON (shocked) This situation has been ongoing for hours.

He continues to watch the news report, hoping for information about the efforts to contain the fire and the well-being of the staff involved at the ITV studios. in August 1989).

1989–2021: Sky One

On 31 July 1989, the channel was renamed Sky One and closed in most European countries, broadcasting only to the United Kingdom and Ireland. During September of that year, Sky One began to air more recent programming as an early success being Moonlighting (which the BBC had previously screened but not repeated), ALF and Wiseguy, also aired the British television premiere of a new drama series 21 Jump Street. Back-to-back soaps (Rich Man, Poor Man and Falcon Crest) as well as action shows (Riptide and Hunter) were also added to its prime time schedule.[1] A number of Australian drama series aired, including Against the Wind, Boney, A Town Like Alice, Barrier Reef, as well as the soap operas, Return to Eden, Chances, E Street and Paradise Beach. Some Australian children's programmes, such as Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and Zoo Family also aired on Sky One. In 1990 and early 1991 (prior to the launch of Sky Sports), Sky One broadcast numerous live cricket telecasts during which it pre-empted its regularly scheduled programming.

Following the merger with British Satellite Broadcasting's Galaxy on 2 November 1990, Sky One also picked up new sitcoms (Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Growing Pains, Murphy Brown, In Living Color, Wings and Designing Women), dramas (China Beach, Hill Street Blues and the soap operas, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful), reruns of classic sitcoms (Bewitched and The Addams Family), a new animated series Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was added to children's programmes, and daily dating game show Love at First Sight was presented by Helen Brumby and Bruno Brookes. Following the daily repeats of Star Trek and Lost in Space, Sky One picked up a number of science-fiction shows which became a crucial part of its evening line-up such as the UK premiere of Alien Nation, also added reruns of V (1983 miniseries, The Final Battle and the television series) and Battlestar Galactica in 1991. After the 1992 airing of The Flash, Sky One also picked up Star Trek: The Next Generation which had previously aired on BBC2 began a long twice per day run of the franchise in a late afternoon and a late evening timeslot on Mondays to Fridays.

A staple of Sky One prime time schedule in its early years were glossy American miniseries such as Roots, Shōgun, Masada, The Thorn Birds, North and South and Lonesome Dove, which aired mostly in two-hour installments each week Sundays to Tuesdays. As the format was beginning to fade in the United States, the miniseries were reduced to two nights in late 1992 and then rescheduled to Tuesdays and Wednesdays in early 1994 under its new title called Midweek Drama, before being dropped altogether shortly after that and reappearing only as special event programming. 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. The Sunday night timeslot was ultimately given to new episodes of the hit teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210 which was later paired off with its spin-off Melrose Place. After many years in the clear on 1 September of that year, Sky One was encrypted as part of the new Sky Multichannels subscription package, and could no longer be viewed outside Britain and Ireland without exporting a box, or receiving it over cable (although it had already been encrypted for a while since its original launch and first went in the clear in around 1987).

The start of 1995 saw Sky One begin 24-hour broadcasting and initially the overnight hours were filled by music videos. However by the end of the decade, overnight programming consisted of the same range of programmes broadcast at all other times of the day.

On 1 October 1998, Sky One's digital feed launched with Sky Digital. Sky One was one of the four last remaining channels on the analogue platform when it was switched off at midnight on 27 September 2001.[2] In 2000, a dedicated feed of Sky One for Ireland was launched for most of this Irish feed's existence, the only difference between it and the United Kingdom feed has been differing commercials and programme promotions. In June 2003, the channel started broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen.[3] However, all television commercials were broadcast in 4:3 until 21 November 2005,[4] because they were played off the same servers for all Sky channels, many of which were not broadcast in widescreen.

On 25 August 2012, Stuart Murphy, director of Sky entertainment channels, announced that a one-hour timeshift of Sky One and Sky Atlantic will due to start in the autumn, with the former launching on 12 November of that year.[5] For New Year's Day 2014 (1 January), Sky One was temporarily renamed Sky Onesie aiming "to encourage viewers to snuggle up in front of the television wearing onesies, in a bid to recover from the previous night's celebrations".[6] In 2017, Sky One began broadcasting some sports coverage. This included a partial simulcast of Soccer Saturday, highlights of, and occasional live coverage of, Formula One motor racing and the occasional live football match. 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.

Sky Two and Sky Three

The success of the channel led to the launch of a sister service Sky 2 on 1 September 1996, broadcasts more first-run programmes between 7.00pm and 6.00am only. The spin-off channel was not a success as it was closed on 31 August 1997, which was replaced by the UK's version of National Geographic from the following day, and Sky One reverts back to its original name.

On 9 December 2002, the channel was relaunched as Sky One Mix. On 21 September 2004, the channel was renamed Sky Mix. On 31 October 2005, Sky Mix was renamed Sky Two with the launch of a second sister channel Sky Three.

Sky Two was renamed Sky Replay on 27 August 2020, and Sky Three was renamed Pick on 28 February 2011. On 3 October 2023, it was announced that Pick will rebrand on 18 October 2023 as Sky Mix.

High-definition

To coincide with the launch of Sky HD, Sky One HD began broadcasting on 22 May 2006. The channel is a simulcast of Sky One and screens high-definition versions of some of the channel's programming, which include Lost, Bones, 24, WWE SmackDown, Fringe, Prison Break, House, and most recently new episodes of The Simpsons. Programmes that are not available in HD are "upscaled" (although Sky One showed its widescreen version of the television show Malcolm in the Middle, unlike most American broadcasts, since the film was originally filmed on Panavision widescreen film but cropped to full-screen by most broadcasters. This airing of the show preserves the film's appearance without stretching or upscaling, although some scenes were compromised for widescreen and had to be upscaled).

Sky stated that they intended to increase the amount of HD content they show, and hoped that by the end of 2008, two-thirds of all prime time shows, and 90% of their own original commissions, would be in HD.[7] A new logo was introduced along with the rebrand on 31 August 2008.

On 1 October 2010, Sky1 HD launched on Virgin Media channel 122, with Sky2 moving to channel 123 and Sky3 moving to channel 180 on 22 September 2010, to make way for the new service.[8]

Virgin Media dispute

Further information: Sky UK § Virgin Media dispute

On 1 March 2007 at midnight, Sky's basic channels – which included Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Travel and Sky Travel Extra – were removed from the Virgin Media cable television services after a dispute from BSkyB. This was due to the expiry of their previous carriage agreement and the companies' inability to reach a new deal.[9][10] Virgin issued legal proceedings against Sky over the dispute in April 2007.

At the beginning of March 2008, the two companies were reported to have resumed discussions over the dispute. Virgin chief executive Neil Berkett was reported as saying they had "continued interest in securing Sky basics back on our platform". The resumed talks had followed shortly after both Virgin and BSkyB had launched appeals against a recent Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling on BSkyB's 17.9% stake in ITV plc.[11][12]

On 4 November 2008, a carriage deal between BSkyB and Virgin Media was reached and BSkyB's channels were available on Virgin's cable service from 13 November of that year.[13][14] The Sky basic channels were spread across each tier of Virgin's cable television service: Sky Three and Sky News were made available in the lowest M tier; Sky Sports News joined the M+ tier; Sky One and Sky Two were made available in the L tier; and Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 joined the XL tier.[14]

Closure

It was announced on 27 July 2021 that Sky One would be retired and that a new channel, Sky Showcase would replace its EPG slot on Sky. Another channel, Sky Max would launch on the same day. Most of Sky's original content and the drama output would move there, while the most of the comedy output would move to Sky Comedy.[15] Prodigal Son was the channel's last programme.

At the time of closure, it was available via digital satellite on Sky, digital cable on Virgin Media, IPTV on TalkTalk TV and online via Sky Go and Now. In the Republic of Ireland, the channel was available via Sky Ireland, Virgin Media Ireland and Eir Vision.

Continuity announcers

Bruce Hammal was the station's continuity announcer from 1984 to 1997. Absolute Radio DJ Claire Sturgess has been a "voice" of Sky One since 1998, and was the sole announcer from 2001 until 2005. As one of Sky One's four announcers, her voice-overs are pre-recorded once a week and played out by an automated system. [16]

Live continuity announcements air each evening. In 2009, they were voiced by announcers Dave Kelly, Faye Bamford and Philippa Collins. In 2010, three new continuity announcers were hired, Katie Morton, Katie Hudson and Paul Daniels, replacing all the previous announcers. In 2011, two new part-time announcers were hired.[17] During the day, pre-recorded announcements air, promoting shows from all the different Sky channels.[18]

Former logos

  • (1989–1993)
    (1989–1993)
  • (1995–1996)
    (1995–1996)
  • (1996–1997)
    (1996–1997)
  • (1998–2002)
    (1998–2002)
  • (2002–2004)
    (2002–2004)
  • (2008–2011)
    (2008–2011)
  • (2015–2017)
    (2015–2017)
  • (2017–2021)
    (2017–2021)

Programming

Main article: List of programmes broadcast by Sky One

1980s and 1990s

Sky commissioned many homegrown programmes since it first started broadcasting back in 1984, but it was not until 1989 when content went beyond music and children's shows.

During the early years in commissioned some new game shows including:

The channel commissioned a number of home grown programmes (for example, dramas such as The Wanderer, Springhill, Dream Team and Space Island One) while expanding its small number of Australian television series, notably include:

2000s and 2010s

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

Sky One also screened reality television shows such as:

The channel received relative success with scientific shows such as:

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

Sky One had also re-commissioned a number of earlier game shows including Blockbusters, which brought the series back once again between 30 October 2000 and 23 March 2001 was produced by Grundy (now owns the format) and presented by Liza Tarbuck, but did not capture the same degree of popularity as the Bob Holness incarnation. The most recent game show was from Mark Burnett, Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old?, based on a United States format. On 30 January 2008, Sky One announced plans to bring back the British 1990s combat-based game show Gladiators, which was subsequently cancelled in 2009.[19] They also showed the sketch show Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show.

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. 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. Not all shows were well received, at least by its home country audience, including Parents which was broadcast in 2012 and was not popular, leading Sky not to commission it for a second series. Moone Boy, a series written by and starring Chris O'Dowd, first screened in 2012, became an instant hit internationally. It lasted three series, and ended in 2015.

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

Music

 
American pop group E.Y.C. interview on the Coca-Cola Hit Mix weekly show
 
British singer Matt Goss on the music brand which would simultaneously broadcast on Sky One and Sky Two's Hit Mix (Long Play)

In 1994, Sky One started their own music show called The Coca Cola Hit Mix (also known as The Hit Mix) hosted by Terry Christian,[20] featuring music news and guests at the time.[21] The show featured regular competitions, phone-ins with guests and other features. This later evolved into a late night broadcast called Hit Mix Long Play which would broadcast simultaneously on both Sky One and Sky Two playing music videos from various genres; the show also featured themed topics such as "Step by Step" which would feature music videos with stairs in the song or video when the scheduled programming had finished. This became a popular part of the brand and would often have exclusive first play on new releases that week.[citation needed]

A later expansion of the music brand would be Sky One's Morning Glory show which would feature music videos in the early morning before the scheduled programming would start, which also featured various themes as well as caller requests.[citation needed]

Films

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.

American imports

The channel became known for its first-run American imports such as: Seinfeld, Rescue 911, Unsolved Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and South Park, as well as some older programmes included Hill Street Blues, M*A*S*H, Quantum Leap and Lucille Ball's various comedy series. It relies heavily on screenings for this network as they coming from Rupert Murdoch's Fox Broadcasting Company with other shows like The X-Files, In Living Color, Cops, Millennium, King of the Hill, Futurama, Family Guy and Malcolm in the Middle. Another early and long-running fixture was Married... with Children ran all through the 1990s, but in the early 2000s as the show suddenly disappeared from its regular schedule and has not been screened on any Sky channel since.

Sky One was also the original home to the UK's first-run showings of ER and Friends for series 4–6 of both shows (Channel 4 had shown series 1–3 first), giving Sky One some of the highest ratings for any satellite channel. In 2000, 2.8 million viewers watched an episode of Friends, the highest-rated show on this network. However, when Channel 4 launched their own digital sister service E4 they outbid Sky One for exclusive first-run rights to both shows.[22] However, Sky One still held the repeat rights for the early series of both shows for several years. Since 2011, Friends has been shown on Comedy Central.[23]

WWF/WWE

From 1989, Sky Channel (later Sky One) was the home of World Wrestling Federation in the UK. Certain special events such as Royal Rumble, UK Rampage and This Tuesday in Texas aired on Sky One, whilst a live broadcast of WrestleMania VI and others include SummerSlam and Survivor Series, shown on taped delay a number of days after the events were recorded, aired on Sky Movies.

Sky moved all the special events to Sky Movies in 1991, before they transferred to Sky Sports on 1 September 1992 when the channel became a subscription service. From 1995, subscribers to the Sky Sports channel would see not only a taped delay showing of these pay-per-view events, but Sky also offered a live showing starting a midnight UK time on the evening the event took place. Sky One continued to air WWF/WWE shows on Friday night and Saturday/Sunday morning that were produced for syndicated television in the United States from the early 1990s until the late 2010s. Sky Sports aired Monday Night Raw and later SmackDown alongside all pay-per-view events and required an additional subscription to be able to view the Sports package, this led to the WWF/WWE content on Sky One being available to more viewers in the UK than the shows that aired only on Sky Sports.

While WWF/WWE pay-per-view events aired on Sky Sports, other shows include Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, All American Wrestling, Action Zone, Mania, LiveWire, Shotgun and Metal which aired on Saturday or Sunday exclusively on Sky One with repeats throughout the week on the channel. These were often shows edited for younger viewers to fit the timeslot (especially during the riskier content of the Attitude era) and had dubbed commentary especially for the UK audience.

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,[24] which later rebranded as TNT Sports on 18 July 2023.

The Simpsons

On 2 September 1990, Sky One launched its hit American animated series The Simpsons which became a signature show and aired continuously on the channel for 31 years until it was ceased in 2021 (as well as the Sunday morning religious programme Hour of Power was another to remain the schedule during most of its run), 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.[25]

On 17 March 2009, Sky One broadcast the 20th season episode "In the Name of the Grandfather" for the first time – five days before its original US airing – to be shown in the United Kingdom as gathered over one million viewers. Sky One had also aired episodes within three days after its US first-run, including "Judge Me Tender" on 27 May 2010. In November 2012, The Simpsons was not broadcast on the timeshift service because BSkyB is prohibited from doing so under the current terms of their licensing agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution included an on-screen message appears redirecting viewers to Sky One.[26] As of 2017, The Simpsons is available to watch on the timeshifted channel.

Following the death of voice actress Marcia Wallace, Sky One broadcasts three of best episodes from 6.30pm including "Bart the Lover", "The Ned-Liest Catch" and "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda" on 28 October 2013.

Star Trek

Sky One obtained the first-run rights for Star Trek on 1 July 1990, which previously had been with the BBC. During its entire run of The Original Series, Sky One had chosen three episodes – "Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy" – as well as the unseen pilot were eventually shown on satellite television, but not screened by the BBC between 19 August 1992 and 19 January 1994 for similar reasons following audience complaints after broadcast.

The Next Generation was initially shown five nights a week at 5.00pm (repeated again at 10.30pm) between 5 October 1992 and 16 August 1993, starting with "Encounter at Farpoint" and running all the way up to "Timescape". The channel also acquired rerun rights to the episodes from the first three seasons previously aired on BBC2 – with the addition of "The High Ground", which saw its first British broadcast on 29 November 1992 with the Irish reunification line edited out, and a feature-length version of "Unification" was shown for an exclusive movie channel on 7 March 1993 rather than as part of this entire run. The whole series was shown again with "Descent" held over to act as the premiere to the seventh season on 31 July 1994, which was run every Sunday evenings at 7.00pm once it had completed production and was available to be shown before the last-ever episode aired on 29 January 1995.

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

The episodes of these later series were shown as they were in the United States with repeats between new ones, however soon held back broadcast the entire series at once, as well as various science-fiction shows that would fill the gaps including Stargate SG-1 and Andromeda. It was moved to Sky Two for a short time, until the channel was ceased on 31 August 1997 due to poor ratings. Monday nights at 8.00pm was the traditional time for the series, however at the start of the fourth season of Enterprise was moved to Tuesdays within the place also taken by The Simpsons, which lasted until the final episode was broadcast on 2 August 2005.

Most watched

 
Sky One share of viewing 1992–2008. Peak was 9.5%, July 1993, current 0.9%.

The following is a list of the ten most watched shows on Sky One, based on Live +7 data supplied by BARB up to 30 November 2020, within the number of viewers does not include repeats:

Rank Show Episode Number of
viewers 		Date
1 Friends: The Reunion 5,300,000 27 May 2021
2 Friends 6.01 – "The One After Vegas" 2,860,000 13 January 2000
3 An Idiot Abroad 2.01 – "Desert Island" 2,659,000 23 September 2011
4 2.07 – "Climb Mount Fuji" 2,656,000 4 November 2011
5 Terry Pratchett's Hogfather "Part One" 2,647,000 17 December 2006
6 Friends 5.01 – "The One After Ross Says Rachel" 2,410,000 7 January 1999
7 5.15 – "The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey" 2,320,000 15 April 1999
8 An Idiot Abroad 2.08 – "Karl Comes Home" 2,302,000 11 November 2011
9 The Simpsons 17.15 – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" 2,301,000 23 April 2006
10 An Idiot Abroad 3.03 – "China" 2,260,000 14 December 2012

References

  1. ^ "New look for autumn on Sky One". pbs.twimg.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Switch-off to cost Sky 100,000 subs". www.campaignlive.co.uk.
  3. ^ Jay, Alan (2 May 2003). "Sky confirms expansion of widescreen broadcasting". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
  4. ^ "9.1 The Evolution of Television | Media and Culture". courses.lumenlearning.com. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  5. ^ Andy Gallagher; Josh Strauss & Emily Brinnand (25 August 2012). "Sky's Stuart Murphy announces the launch of two new channels – video". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  6. ^ Drewett, Meg (31 December 2013). "Sky 1 to be renamed for New Year's Day". Digital Spy. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  7. ^ Wilkes, Neil (22 May 2007). "Sky promises more HD programming". Digital Spy.
  8. ^ "Sky1 HD to launch on VM on Friday". TheAirwaves. 28 September 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
  9. ^ Welsh, James (1 March 2007). "Sky One, Sky News pulled from Virgin". Digital Spy.
  10. ^ "BSkyB channels taken off Virgin". BBC News. 1 March 2007.
  11. ^ Robinson, James (2 March 2008). "Virgin in talks to resolve dispute over Sky channels". The Guardian. London.
  12. ^ West, Dave (3 March 2008). "'Talks resume' over Sky carriage dispute". Digital Spy.
  13. ^ Welsh, James (4 November 2008). "Sky1, Sky News back on Virgin cable". Digital Spy.
  14. ^ a b Goss, Patrick (4 November 2008). "Sky1 returns to Virgin Media". TechRadar.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Deadline was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ "Katie Morton, actor". Mandy Actors. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  18. ^ "Sky One : 2008 Idents". The Ident Gallery. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  19. ^ Holmwood, Leigh (30 January 2008). "Sky One to bring back 90s favourite Gladiators". The Guardian. London.
  20. ^ "Terry Christian: Broadcaster, Journalist and Author". Greater Mancunians. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  21. ^ "London's independent TV studios". TV History. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  22. ^ "Channel 4's record £125m bid for 'Friends' and 'ER' sees off Sky". The Independent. 17 December 1999.
  23. ^ Szalai, Georg (12 August 2015). "'Friends' to Stay on Comedy Central UK". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  24. ^ "BT Sport and WWE announce new multi-year partnership". BT.com.
  25. ^ Munn, Patrick (15 December 2016). "Sky1 Sets UK Premiere Date For 'The Simpsons' Season 28 - TVWise". TVWise. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  26. ^ "BSkyB Launching Sky1+1 on November 12th, Channel Will Not Air 'The Simpsons'". TVWise. 24 October 2012.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky_One&oldid=1183695398"