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Sky1 started on April 26, 1982 as Super Station Europe, a consortium set up by Brian Hayes, formerly controller of Thames Television, and it was originally broadcast from the Orbital Test Satellite aimed to cable operators all over Europe; Norway and Finland being the first two countries to permit the new service’s transmission via cable. (Malta and Switzerland were the next two countries to legalise cable transmission of the service).
However, at first the station struggled financially, and by the second half of 1983, the station’s ex-ITV management realised that they “could not capture Europe on the budget of Border Television”, and put up the majority of the station’s shares for sale. It would be Rupert Murdoch (through his News International conglomerate), eager to make his definitive breakthrough into UK TV, that would buy the shares for the symbolic price of £1. Shortly afterwards, Murdoch would buy the remaining shares, owning 100% of the company.
Murdoch and the new management he put in charge of the channel changed the channel’s programming mix greatly, and in January 1984 renamed the channel Sky Channel. The channel produced a number of home grown programmes, including Sky Trax which covered European music, and children’s programmes like Fun Factory and The DJ Kat Show. Also, the new management adopted a more aggressive policy to reach an increasing number of cable households throughout Europe. In the UK, the first cable system to incorporate it was Swindon Cable, shortly after its relaunch.
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