BSB Power Station becomes Sky Movies Plus, Monday 8 April 1991
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- BSB Power Station's final "Swing Shift" followed by Sky Movies Plus trailers. It's hard to tell if there are any breaks in this recording - there may well be. It's as I found it. The final video that Wikipedia mentions being shown at 03:56 am is missing and the clock on Sky Text as I'm going through the channels says 05:17 am despite closedown supposedly being at 4am but the recording doesn't appear to stop anywhere. I thought I'd upload anyway just for the historical value that the video does have.
R.I.P Power Station
25 March 1990-8 April 1991
Amazing quality, especially the sound. I never heard the Sky Movies intro music in stereo before.
steeviebops great music
just to show how better the marco pollo satellite was to astra as this was one of the first digital satellites. i reckon they should of broke the deal with astra and stuck with marco pollo
@@robertpreece7259 it was definitely the better system but also the more expensive one. Sky weren't interested, they didn't want "five measly channels" as Murdoch put it.
Probably more British people on screen in that goodbye party than Sky One managed in about a year's worth of programming.
Ooofff.....burn
You're right; at the time, Sky One's schedule was almost entirely made up of American imports. Meanwhile, Galaxy (BSB's answer to Sky One which closed down four months before the Power Station) featured a mix of British, American and Australian programmes. Big difference.
Straight from Swing Shift to a trailer for the Bond film Licence To Kill
So sad to hear Jono has died. RIP Jonathan Coleman
Vale Jonathan Coleman 😔. It’s nice to see UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪 viewers that remember his body of work on top of what he did here in Australia before and after he moved to England.
If anyone cares, the show that just ends at the begining is Giant Robo, a show that was dubbed as Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot. More specifically it is the 16th episode.
thought I had seen all the available bsb stuff but never this
33 years on. Memories live forever!
RIP The Power Station.
They were all drunk as they sung that. 😂😂
They were probably held at gunpoint to sing
@@nutoutpizzadthehut I hope not and--wait, how'd you out-pizza the hut?
@@mariahbenetatos Yeah umm, let's say I just managed to do it and end it there.
I saw one of them do the middle finger
Not just Jono, but a young Jo Whiley too!
don't remind us
Rest in Peace BSB November 2 1990-April 8 1991
:(
BSB had fewer channels but it had better picture and sound quality and didn't need to cover the whole of Europe
Actually, if you count The Computer Channel as a separate channel, BSB had 6 channels at launch and Sky had only 4
@@moramento22 Wrong. BSB only had 5 channels at launch on the 2 UK only Marco Polo satellites (three channels transmitted on one satellite, and two channels transmitted on the other satellite) at 31 degrees West in the form of -
BSB Galaxy
BSB Now
BSB The Power Station
BSBThe Movie Channel
And BSB The Sports Channel,
and no more.
You're wrong again about The Computer Channel, because BSB never had The Computer Channel at all, that came in through the 90's on the 4th Astra Satellite 1D 19.2 degrees East sharing a transponder with Granada Good Life for two hours every night scrambled in Videocrypt 1 as part of the Sky Multichannels subscription package for UK subscribers only.
And when it became .tv, it transmitted briefly on the same Astra 1D transponder also then made the switch to Sky Digital on the Astra 2 satellite fleet at 28.2 degrees East but didn't last very long there.
Sky had 4 channels originally on the 1st Astra Satellite 1A at launch and it took a few years for The Disney Channel UK to arrive in the mid 90's on the second Astra Satellite 1B 19.2 degrees East via channel 26 and it took a fair few years until Sky Digital on Astra 2 28.2 degrees East for Sky Arts to arrive there.
@@anthonyperkins7556 From what I can see The Computer Channel was broadcast briefly on the frequency of The Sports Channel.
Even still with 5 channels BSB had more channels than Sky at launch
@@moramento22 I stand corrected. Looked at Wikipedia and The Computer Channel was broadcast overnights on BSB The Sports Channel when it wasn't broadcasting.
But a second version of The Computer Channel (not related to BSB) did appear on the Astra 1D satellite as part of the Sky Multichannels subscription package scrambled in Videocrypt 1 encryption in the mid 90's using two hours nightly on the Granada Good Life Channel 6pm - 8pm which became .tv and after a while on Astra 1D, when Skydigital launched on Astra 2 28.2 degrees East migrated there cutting off the Astra 1D transmission but not lasting very long on Skydigital.
@@moramento22
Yes and no....
Don't confuse Astra and Sky, (Sky didn't own the original satellite they used, it was used by a number of broadcasters)
Sky themselves may have had 4 channels but they didn't own the satellite, there were a good few other channels that could be received on SKY, (Sky only advertised the ones they owned at the time).
If you check the launch line-up of Astra 1A you'll see there were around 15/16 channels available (initial capacity) from the same satellite used for SKY en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_1A, granted a few of them were in other languages but if the wiki is correct then Screensport, Eurosport, The Children's Channel(timeshared with Lifestyle), MTV, Sky One, Sky News, MTV Europe, Sky Movies were available in 1989 for a total of 8 channels in English available to sky customers from the Astra satellite.
Because the Marco Polo satellite is tied directly to the BSB service you would only have ever been able to get the channels they themselves broadcast (so in effect an actual maximum of 6 channels without increasing capacity).
So yeah, long story short, if you were a sky customer you would have been able to get quite a few more channels at launch than BSB, it's just the case that Sky didn't own or have control over all of them.
A co-located satellite was launched in '91 (Astra 1B), effectively doubling the capacity at that same orbital position.
4:40 The TRUE reason The Power Station closed down.
a middle finger in the tv! 🤣🤣🤣
The wrong broadcaster won. BSB was far better in every way.
Similarities to VHS and Beta.
Your wrong BSB was low quality af and sky is 2K/4K
it is now but back then Marco pollo satellites were in D-MAC and not PAL which meant digital sound. IMO, sky should of kept the the D-MAC and became the first digital satellite company and (although i didn't witness it) you wouldn't of got rain spots as you did with astra analogue.@@Bfdiguy4566
But BSB didn't have the Conservative government in their pocket like Murdoch had (has).
@@JT4CDIt took you 1 month
Didn’t make it depressing like the analogue shutdown in the early 10s. lol
The saddest thing here is the guy switching the channels in disbelief after the shutdown. Poor guy
The Power Station had better idents than Sky Movies, by the look of things.
All the BSB idents were better than their respective Sky idents.
Jono Coleman R.I.P #Legend
6:33 There You Go
Better quality than MTV Europe, excellent component RGB quality on Scart socket connection and excellent digital stereo sound. What was MTV Europe? Inferior PAL quality with fuzzy cross-colour ringing moire patterning and flicker plus sparklie pictures in bad weather or if too small a dish size is used in Northern England Northern Ireland and Scotland ie 60cm or less, and hissy analogue FM Stereo sound unless you had genuine Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction fitted to your Astra Satellite receiver which cheaper Amstrads and budget brands often didn't use.
And then there were sparklies all over UK Gold because the footprint was not centred over the UK.
Is there any T.V. Buffs that can say what the bleep was for when a channel went off-air? Was it done to wake up people to "turn off their set" or scare them in to do doing it before bed through fear of being awoken by it in the middle of the night, trouncing about trying to turn it off by the remote or worse, having to get up and turn it off at 3am?
The tone on testcards is generally to test that sound/related systems are working correctly afaik, it probably has other purposes too (possibly to check that the frequency is tuned correctly, it might shift in key or be a few semitones out if the tuning is misaligned).
It might just be as simple as it being the cheapest way to have continual sound for checking check transmission/reception of audio, as generating a simple tone is very easy with just basic circuitry.
I suspect it's not there to scare or "wake people up" although I suppose that might be handy if you've left your TV on, but I suspect Sky couldn't care less if you had.
RIP Jono
Donald Trumpetburger??? [See credits at 5:00].
Probably a alias
best music channel ever
4:40 Did he just shown the middle finger!?
It’s British, that’s all you need to know
My Dad got Sky in 1990 when I was 5 and I do not remember this channel at all.
BSB was not on astra which SKY was on. THE Power Station was on the Marco Polo satellite.
@@woking1970 That's super Mark but at age 5, the satellite could've been called mint Polo and I still wouldn't of known this channel and let's say it is called "Mint Polo" Markus o' Rellius, I still don't know this channel dear-heart.
@@Hertfordshire247 Well sounds like your dad had Astra which most would of had.
@@woking1970 Who knows. It's 1 and only crime was that I become a WWF fan. 30 years later, I am still a WWE fan. There should be implications for this.
At 4am The Power Station Shutdown and At 6am Sky Movies Plus on April 8th 1991
7:04 BSB Power Station R.I.P ❤
Is that Holly Samos (Holly Hotlips) from the Chris Evans bullyboy breakfast show on Radio 1 and Virgin 1215?
hold tight big don cheeseman
don't you just love how people argue about things that don't matter anymore?
The upcoming Batman movie and Hellraiser 😊
Good gravy they're plastered 😆 to the stars, power station. To the fucking stars
Anyone know who the delightful test card ladies are at 7:58 etc?
what is the song did they sang
I think that's New York, New York with changed lyrics
the bloke in the leather jacket is invicta fm's jonno colman?
Yep
Wait, Jono is wearing trousers ???? I thought he could only wear shorts.
What is the name of that Japanese kids show at the beginning of the clip?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0170962/
"Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot"
Monday 8th April 1991
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Transcript
©SKY UK 1991
Vim pela tv formosa.
Now that's what I call awful singing
That's what you get if ball drop having some power outage.
sky killing BSB not much left of bsb at this POINT and cant believe BSB had EPG TV guide cool but sky were never going keep BSB become astra satellite is so much better
lee DJ who wants a 60-65cm dish antenna on the front of their house with annoying sparklies on the pictures when it rained and poor compressed hissy analogue stereo?
Sky didn't kill BSB, they just merged and became BSkyB (now Sky UK)
Plus, Sky acquired and continued to use The Movie Channel as a sky channel til 1997 when it became Sky Movies Screen 2.
@@SOSOwner yes ture bsb are still whith us today
@@castle6742 How? Sky is soooooooo boring 💤