Sky Entertainment

Sky Entertainment was a television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting which was broadcast to the Scandinavian countries.

Sky Entertainment
Broadcast areaSweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland
Ownership
OwnerBritish Sky Broadcasting
History
LaunchedSeptember 15, 1997
ClosedFebruary 14, 1999

The channel was the result of an agreement between Telenor CTV and British Sky Broadcasting made in March 1997, which meant Telenor would be able to broadcast two channels produced by BSkyB to their subscribers in Scandinavia.[1][2]

Sky Entertainment was launched in September 1997 along with Sky News & Documentaries (which relayed programmes from Sky News, The Computer Channel and National Geographic Channel). It carried programming from several British channels, most notably those operated by Granada Sky Broadcasting. At launch, the channels carried were:

Channel Time (CET)
CMT Europe 02.00-10.00
Granada Good Life 10.00-19.00
Granada Plus 19.00-00.00
Granada Men & Motors 00.00-02.00

The channel shared its analogue transponder on Intelsat 707 with DR2 which was broadcasting between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m., meaning the programmes of Granada Plus weren't available to analogue viewers.[3]

The channels were broadcast on the 1 degree west frequency as a part of the CTV package.

After CMT Europe closed down in 1998, it was replaced by Video Zone.[4]

References
  1. "Tilspisset kamp om TV-distribusjon". Digi.no. March 7, 1997.
  2. "Telenor i SKYene". IT-avisen. March 10, 1997.
  3. "MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2279 Part 1". September 15, 1997.
  4. "SATCO DX – Updates 980330-980405". www.sat-net.com.
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