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Remember when channels would shut down or share space?
starry_rune
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Here is 90's Cartoon Network transforming into TNT classic movies, with the TNT promos making these old films look vibrant, colourful, alluring.
http://youtu.be/QbGi3vRrl1A?t=21s
What other channels shared space? Do you remember when channels shut down for the night? BBC 4 does that but its not exciting enough.
Here is SKy Soap changing into the History Channel
http://youtu.be/GaECf6l2wHw?t=50s
Here is Bravo and teen channel Trouble (which used to show usa high, calafornia dreams) merging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIc2qFAUKuE
TCC and Family channel I'm sure used to share but not 100% check out these memory inducing idents / promos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXU-ha8EIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRsMJKAsM0o
Didn't the family channel show black beauty? remember its opening theme?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flvxbw8YYM8
Here is the top 10 countdown of CD ROMS in the mid 90's
http://youtu.be/TVnQo4RmaYQ?t=5m49s
Here is the box when it was music televion you control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xfBZBu5c8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCf4203RnLM
Didn't life used to be marvellous? Do you wish you could go back to these days? Would you prefer analog sky and United Artists Cable to todays offerings?
http://youtu.be/QbGi3vRrl1A?t=21s
What other channels shared space? Do you remember when channels shut down for the night? BBC 4 does that but its not exciting enough.
Here is SKy Soap changing into the History Channel
http://youtu.be/GaECf6l2wHw?t=50s
Here is Bravo and teen channel Trouble (which used to show usa high, calafornia dreams) merging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIc2qFAUKuE
TCC and Family channel I'm sure used to share but not 100% check out these memory inducing idents / promos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXU-ha8EIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRsMJKAsM0o
Didn't the family channel show black beauty? remember its opening theme?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flvxbw8YYM8
Here is the top 10 countdown of CD ROMS in the mid 90's
http://youtu.be/TVnQo4RmaYQ?t=5m49s
Here is the box when it was music televion you control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xfBZBu5c8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCf4203RnLM
Didn't life used to be marvellous? Do you wish you could go back to these days? Would you prefer analog sky and United Artists Cable to todays offerings?
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This isn't technical its just a throwback / nostalgic thread would love to hear some peoples opinions, etc
I think that at around the same time Television X would share with something else, perhaps one of the Granada channels? Not sure. I'd sometimes watch the 10 minute preview on cable and once or twice they forgot to turn it off. I wouldn't really call it scrambled on cable as you didn't see a scrambled picture, you just got a screen stating you're not subscribed. Anyway, that sometimes didn't appear and I got to watch everything. :cool:
I can't really be nostalgic for something that feels like it happened five minutes ago. People young enough to have experienced this period during their childhood or teenage years shouldn't be indulging in nostalgia yet. They aren't old enough for such nonsense.
Good call
I remember the traffic jam as Paramount closed down and it made that awful noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrKuH8_yKPY
then Nick changed to Paramount
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kvmr5Y3YE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LD_gDC56Kw
the singing cows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_EwUSSQE4
And then going encrypted ,,....l
I sort of remember that, but not why. Must gwt round to googling it.
Could it be this that you remember?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Select
Yay the singing cows! :D
On Cable Midlands we never got Paramount until it rebranded to Telewest, so it changed to a Nickelodeon caption.
I know on Sky Fox Kids & the original Sky 2 shared a channel, but what did Sky 2 replace on Telewest as I remember it sharing with another daytime channel other than Fox Kids?
Thanks! That was it.
BBC Knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3KI-ViKPRg
BBC Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLtxrHFS3GA
Granada Talk TV and Granada Plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuNiLoDwWZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbiU6ilmmUM
Sky Scottish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WiG__elKs
UK Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRF3jZziXs
UK Arena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC98eFk_cUc
Gold was UK Gold and had a much better variety of programs. Living was UK Living.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvu7UxvO4F4
L!ve TV - Home of the weather in Norweign followed by topless darts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKihen4e7i8
Carlton Select
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8mDJJ0Zxos
CMT - Country Music Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp2tZo6hgwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZkXN56l2Tc
SelecTV (before it was carlton select)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOQjabUsbc
Therefore, I bet you could also remember the excitement in the late 60's of colour TV being introduced, correct?
Couldn't afford one. Bought first colour in 1974 for £199, a lot of money then:)