Brekkie post_id=15319 time=1622222006 user_id=976 Wrote:Didn't they have a dirty feed as well so had large opaque DOGs obscurring the ITV2 DOG?

Brekkie post_id=14824 time=1621975392 user_id=976 Wrote:Virgin1 to Channel One is a noteable one from the early years of Freeview when Sky bought Virgin's small bouquet of channel,

JAS84 post_id=14909 time=1622022488 user_id=881 Wrote:

Neil Jones post_id=14828 time=1621975978 user_id=961 Wrote:Could we count BSB?

Merged with Sky in 1990 and most of the BSB channels were replaced with Sky equivalents - the only two that survived in from BSB's launch was Movies and Sports - Galaxy became what is now Sky One (IIRC it had a different name in 1990), Now became Sky News and at least one of them vanished altogether.

Yes, Sky One was originally Sky Channel. It had already rebranded to Sky One by the time of the merger though.

A couple of other examples. Fox Kids became Jetix, after being bought by Disney. It later rebranded again to Disney XD. The channel now called Pop Max was originally Kix, renamed to match the other CSC kids channels after they were bought by Sony.

JAS84 post_id=15459 time=1622303737 user_id=881 Wrote:Which was odd, as FTN's name wasn't a reference to NTL or Telewest, the name stood for Flextech Television Network.

JasonB post_id=15475 time=1622315569 user_id=901 Wrote:

JAS84 post_id=14909 time=1622022488 user_id=881 Wrote:

Neil Jones post_id=14828 time=1621975978 user_id=961 Wrote:Could we count BSB?

Merged with Sky in 1990 and most of the BSB channels were replaced with Sky equivalents - the only two that survived in from BSB's launch was Movies and Sports - Galaxy became what is now Sky One (IIRC it had a different name in 1990), Now became Sky News and at least one of them vanished altogether.

Yes, Sky One was originally Sky Channel. It had already rebranded to Sky One by the time of the merger though.

A couple of other examples. Fox Kids became Jetix, after being bought by Disney. It later rebranded again to Disney XD. The channel now called Pop Max was originally Kix, renamed to match the other CSC kids channels after they were bought by Sony.

Wasn’t Sky Channel “Satellite Television Europe”?

L1 post_id=15295 time=1622218112 user_id=959 Wrote:Fiver was a crap name - just seemed as though they were trying to jump on the Dave 'witty channel names' bandwagon at the time.

thegeek post_id=15406 time= user_id=1372 Wrote:

Brekkie post_id=14824 time=1621975392 user_id=976 Wrote:Virgin1 to Channel One is a noteable one from the early years of Freeview when Sky bought Virgin's small bouquet of channel,

Virgin 1 was itself a rebrand of Ftn - a knock-on from the ntl:Telewest merger and rebranding to Virgin Media.

bkman1990 post_id=17759 time= user_id=922 Wrote:The one I remember was Kix being rebranded to Pop Max which was done to align it's brand with Tiny Pop & Pop. Kix was the main channel to show either live action/animated kids action shows that were mostly marketed to young boys or teenagers. But it has stuff like Power Rangers & Angry Birds included in it's line-up which are marketed to both boys & girls. All 3 channels now at the present time provide the Pop Player as their main online catch up service for their acquired Kids TV content.