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Newsgroups: alt.satellite.tv.europe
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From: bignoise@cix.compulink.co.uk (Antony Purvis)
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Subject: Skyguide 22
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Cc: nigel@sun-a.computation.umist.ac.uk, hutcheon_a_p@bt-web.bt.co.uk,
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i.wraith@sheffield.ac.uk, 70247.3516@compuserve.com, don@dj0hc.in-ulm.de,
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ted@tedb.demon.co.uk, jamie@hicom.org, lelli@ganimede.csr.unibo.it,
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alt.satellite.tv.europe@demon.co.uk
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Reply-To: bignoise@cix.compulink.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 17:22:05 +0000
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bbcid MORGAA01 @ BBC-BH
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Skyguide Issue 022
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-------------------------------- SKYGUIDE UK ---------------------------------
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| Your digest of the latest news in the world of Satellite & Cable TV |
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------------------------- Week Ending Sun August 22nd ------------------------
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* WELCOME NEW READERS!
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Skyguide is now available on the internet in the alt.satellite.tv.europe
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newsgroup - welcome to our new readers!
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* UK LIVING READY TO LAUNCH
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UK Living has secured Astra 1C transponder 34, ready for its September 1st
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launch. There had previously been some doubt that the broadcaster could secure
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a transponder in time, if at all, but it has now been announced that Thames
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Television, partner in the channel, will take up its option on an Astra
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transponder, and will transfer it to the channel.
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Regular "Advertisement Features" will be a part of the schedule, although
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unlike UK Living's predecessor channel "Lifestyle", the features will be made
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by the channel and presented by Polly Perkins, star of axed BBC soap Eldorado.
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While the BBC recently announced that it would not be extending its ventures
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into satellite television beyond UK Gold, an agreement has been reached with
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the BBC for the sale of a number of programmes, both old and new.
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Omnibuses of "Good Morning With Anne and Nick" will be aired in the weekends
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following their screening as part of BBC1's daytime schedules.
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Also lined up are repeat screenings of morning talk show "Kilroy", in some
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cases just one week after their original BBC screening.
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The channel will make up to two and a half hours a day of its own programming
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from the old Thames Television studios in Middlesex.
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* STAY TOONED!
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TNT and The Cartoon Network will begin their test transmissions on September
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10th, one week before their launch.
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* MAKING ANOTHER COMEBACK
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Red Hot Television have issued a new press statement, claiming that they will
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begin "test transmissions" on their old transponder on August 24th, and resume
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full broadcasting on August 29th.
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This follows last week's statement that they would return on August 14th,
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although sightings of Dutch PTT colour bars have been reported on their
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transponder in the midnight hours.
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The channel will continue broadcasting in SAVE for the moment, with the
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mysterious Enigma (Videocrypt) encryption set to arrive at a future date.
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* MORE ADULT CHANNELS
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Meanwhile, yet more new adult channels are announcing that they will start up
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shortly. Some may proceed no further than "MTX", which offered a premium rate
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telephone line selling "examples" of what their channel would show.
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Some may proceed as far as the late "After 12", masterminded by David Henry
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and his company, Phonovision. This channel got as far as test broadcasts,
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taking people's money, and sending out Videocrypt cards, but never actually
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made it as far as broadcasting any real programming. The channel eventually
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disappeared amid claims from programming producers that they had not been
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paid.
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Strangely enough, After 12 has recently re-surfaced in advertisments in some
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UK satellite magazines. "After 12 Europe", using the original logo of the old
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"After 12" that disappeared, will "part exchange your old SAVE decoder for a
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new phonocrypt decoder".
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Quite what the mysterious "phonocrypt" encoding will consist of, other than
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sounding very much like the original "phonovision" company behind After 12
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originally, is unknown. The channel claims it will broadcast from the Eutelsat
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bird at 13 degrees East.
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Whether the original "After 12" and the new "After 12 Europe" are in any way
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connected is open to question, but the new arrivals may well find themselves
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on the receiving end of claims from disgruntled subscribers to the original.
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Also claiming to be starting soon is "TV69", a channel said to be backed by
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the former managing director of Red Hot Television, and backed by German
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erotica producer VTO.
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TV69 claim that they will broadcast from the same Eutelsat transponder as Red
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Hot Television, which may be a little difficult if RHTV themselves do finally
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make it back.
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Subscriptions will be handled by Euroswap's Gibraltar branch, subscriptions
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said to be 160 pounds a year, although a deposit of 25 pounds is necessary to
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secure a smart card. The channel's advertising claims "Absolutely NO
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connection with RHD!", and that they will be scrambling with Videocrypt.
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Videocrypt cards will, it is reported, be obtained through VTO's connections
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with "The Adult Channel".
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In general, it all sounds very unlikely - for what it's worth, Skyguide's
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advice is to believe it when you see it.
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* THROW AWAY YOUR RTL-4 DECODERS!
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Well, perhaps not, but for the moment, viewers without RTL-4 decoders will be
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able to enjoy all RTL-4's programming on the RTL-5 transponder on Astra 1C.
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* MONEY IN THE BANK
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Expect to see a whole lot of advertising for the new channels in the Sky
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Multichannels package. Not only is UK Living spending a large amount of money
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on advertising itself to people, but kids channel Nickelodeon is throwing a
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million pounds into advertising its launch in the UK.
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The Family Channel will be topping that, with one and a half million pounds
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for its launch, and Sky has an upcoming 15 million pounds advertising campaign
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in the run-up to Christmas.
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Skyguide Issue 22 Edited by Ant Purvis
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Skyguide is published every week. You can find it on London's CIX conferencing
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system, in the Skyguide conference, the Fidonet Satelite TV echo, the Packet
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Radio Network, and on internet in the alt.satellite.tv.europe newsgroup.
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Skyguide is not a commercial publication, nor is it a cut-down version of a
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printed journal. Nonetheless, it is copyright, and is not to be redistributed
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in any form without consent. Errors and Omissions expected.
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Back issues can be mailed to internet mailboxes on request.
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Comments, suggestions, stories and monetary donations are always appreciated!
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You can contact Skyguide in the following ways:
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CIX : mail to bignoise, or use the Skyguide/comments conference.
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Fidonet : No netmail for the moment please, just leave a message in the
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Satellite TV echo.
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Internet: bignoise@cix.compulink.co.uk
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