Hidden "gems" channels on Sky

linkinpark875 · 20/01/10 - 14:31

Here's my list of non mainstream great channels:

Unexplained channel
OMusic TV
Men & Motors
CBS Action
CBS Reality
Zone Horror
Scuzz
Motors TV
Luxe HD

Not that there's many left so might have to add a few past ones:

Bubble Hits
Bedroom TV
Eat Cinema
The Amp
ABC1
Performance channel
Classic FM TV
The Business Channel
Pulse
Nuts TV
Setanta Golf and some Setanta programming.
Golf channel
Life TV
Setanta News
The Hits
TWC
Real Estate TV
Trouble
Film Four Weekly
BBC Choice
Brit Hits

robbra · 20/01/10 - 15:49

I loved the Cyprus channel

cnbcwatcher · 20/01/10 - 15:54

linkinpark875 wrote: »

Here's my list of non mainstream great channels:

Unexplained channel
OMusic TV
Men & Motors
CBS Action
CBS Reality
Zone Horror
Scuzz
Motors TV
Luxe HD

Not that there's many left so might have to add a few past ones:

Bubble Hits
Bedroom TV
Eat Cinema
The Amp
ABC1
Performance channel
Classic FM TV
The Business Channel
Pulse
Nuts TV
Setanta Golf and some Setanta programming.
Golf channel
Life TV
Setanta News
The Hits
TWC
Real Estate TV
Trouble
Film Four Weekly
BBC Choice
Brit Hits

What was Bedroom TV? Was it about bedroom furniture or, er, something else?

spanners · 20/01/10 - 16:05

One of the best current understated channels has got to be Film24. The films and various MFTV series are great and of a very high quality.

Of those channels that have disappeared I thought the Business Channel was the most interesting particularly for its documentaries, hopefully someone will take a punt and bring it back perhaps on Freesat.

cnbcwatcher · 20/01/10 - 16:09

spanners wrote: »

One of the best current understated channels has got to be Film24. The films and various MFTV series are great and of a very high quality.

Of those channels that have disappeared I thought the Business Channel was the most interesting particularly for its documentaries, hopefully someone will take a punt and bring it back perhaps on Freesat.

Was that the business documentary thingy? Maybe it didn't have the same relevance as CNBC/Bloomberg as it didn't have rolling finance news.

spanners · 20/01/10 - 16:13

cnbcwatcher wrote: »

Was that the business documentary thingy? Maybe it didn't have the same relevance as CNBC/Bloomberg as it didn't have rolling finance news.

That's why it was interesting. There were documentaries on the coca cola / pepsi war, the fashion industry, the motor industry and many more. IMO it was better than any of the so-called documentary channels that currently broadcast.

cnbcwatcher · 20/01/10 - 16:17

spanners wrote: »

That's why it was interesting. There were documentaries on the coca cola / pepsi war, the fashion industry, the motor industry and many more. IMO it was better than any of the so-called documentary channels that currently broadcast.

CNBC had a Coca-Cola documentary recently, they show some good business documentaries at 10pm every weeknight. Maybe though the recession didn't help and people didn't find it relevant for business news in the economic climate and instead turned to the financial channels? Could have been too that the Business Channel was losing money and viewers as its a very niche channel.

fmradiotuner1 · 20/01/10 - 16:30

I watch sometimes

CBS Reality when they have UFO stuff on

Thats about the only one

Past Channels

.TV

Weather channel

An old German Channel which used to show Earth from Space at Night with chill out music on the old Analogue does any one remember this?

The old MTV from the 90s

Children's Channel but POP shows a lot of whet used to be on this.

The Astra Loop Channel

[Deleted User] · 20/01/10 - 18:55

spanners wrote: »

One of the best current understated channels has got to be Film24. The films and various MFTV series are great and of a very high quality.

I agree with you on Film24, the channel has been around for quite a while but over the past few months its really improved a lot.

I wrote to them last week about a film scheduled in their EPG listing which I kept adding to record on Sky+ but kept being dropped from the listings, and they were really helpful and interested on getting viewer feedback.
I also thanked them for showing some really good quality independent films and they replied saying the channel's "film buying policy is now skewed very firmly towards independent film".

[Deleted User] · 22/01/10 - 16:09

Rural TV

for Countrymusic Geeks like me...:o

eugenespeed · 22/01/10 - 22:38

Musicians Channel, learnt some great guitar tips from that.

[Deleted User] · 23/01/10 - 00:31

cnbcwatcher wrote: »

What was Bedroom TV? Was it about bedroom furniture or, er, something else?

I think it was a music channel where people would film themselves miming/dancing to a song, send it in to the channel and they would air it.

[Deleted User] · 23/01/10 - 13:48

http://www.bedroomtv.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_TV

cdon77 · 12/02/10 - 21:05

spanners wrote: »

One of the best current understated channels has got to be Film24. The films and various MFTV series are great and of a very high quality.

Shaka Zulu on tonight at 9.

philengland · 13/02/10 - 09:31

fmradiotuner1 wrote: »

I

An old German Channel which used to show Earth from Space at Night with chill out music on the old Analogue does any one remember this?

BR Alpha and the main BR channel (BR = Bayerischer Rundfunk)

The channels still broadcasting ay 19.2 - tune in to them every now and again

Both channels still show SPACE NIGHT

http://www.br-online.de/br-alpha/space-night/index.xml;jsessionid=YHJA5SLVGWQBICSBUKTCFEQ

Scalper Jack · 13/02/10 - 09:59

Shaka Zulu had been on BEN.

[Deleted User] · 13/02/10 - 10:43

philengland wrote: »

BR Alpha and the main BR channel (BR = Bayerischer Rundfunk)

The channels still broadcasting ay 19.2 - tune in to them every now and again

Both channels still show SPACE NIGHT

http://www.br-online.de/br-alpha/space-night/index.xml;jsessionid=YHJA5SLVGWQBICSBUKTCFEQ

Was that the one that used to show some guy doing a painting every night or so ? about 1/2 hour or hour program ?

peter_sharp1uk · 13/02/10 - 10:49

Was that the painting channel which is on Information tv

darnall42 · 13/02/10 - 11:31

I'm enjoying the old southern region kids shows on film24 at the moment (the flockton flyer,the freewheelers and dick barton-special agent)great to see those progs from my childhood back on tv

darnall42 · 13/02/10 - 11:34

peter_sharp1uk wrote: »

Was that the painting channel which is on Information tv

it could be,or it could be that guy on the discovery channel that looked like one of the hair bear bunch

(cant remember the chaps name ,but he was a fab artist

)

philengland · 13/02/10 - 19:25

colinicky wrote: »

Was that the one that used to show some guy doing a painting every night or so ? about 1/2 hour or hour program ?

Bob Ross - Joy of Painting - they are still showing it!

philengland · 13/02/10 - 19:27

darnall42 wrote: »

I'm enjoying the old southern region kids shows on film24 at the moment (the flockton flyer,the freewheelers and dick barton-special agent)great to see those progs from my childhood back on tv

They will be showing 'That Beryl Maston!' and 'Take A Letter Mr Jones' from next month.

Got to admit, Film24 is a fantastic channel - kind of hooked on the programme 'Sordid Lives' on the channel at the moment (which stars Rue McClanahan from The Golden Girls)

Also enjoying Flockton Flyer!

jzee · 13/02/10 - 20:11

philengland wrote: »

Got to admit, Film24 is a fantastic channel

Agreed, they have some good game and film review progs, some of their films are OK too (liked the old brit classics they showed a while back). Another (recently launched) gem I'd recommend a look at is Renault TV (883), they have a really interesting film archive prog "Film Club" hosted by Robert Llewellyn (kryton from Red Dwarf/Scrapheap Challenge) with some footage from as far back as the 40s in various far flung parts of the world, progs on various persons of note and their Renaults, Renault test drives, F1 etc.

[Deleted User] · 14/02/10 - 12:44

jzee wrote: »

Agreed, they have some good game and film review progs, some of their films are OK too (liked the old brit classics they showed a while back).

They've started showing some absolutely brilliant BBC fillers as well that I've not seen anywhere before.

chewstick · 24/02/10 - 03:51

philengland wrote: »

BR Alpha and the main BR channel (BR = Bayerischer Rundfunk)

The channels still broadcasting ay 19.2 - tune in to them every now and again

Both channels still show SPACE NIGHT

http://www.br-online.de/br-alpha/space-night/index.xml;jsessionid=YHJA5SLVGWQBICSBUKTCFEQ

can i tune into those on my sky box, if so i would love to know how because i love space night. They do have it online now but i would love to record it on my sky box, i love spacenight
failing that i would like to record it on my laptop , but don't know how:-( ANY help would be appreciated

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