Thanks Steve. There is some more BSB to come.

doubledeckers, How many years did Galaxy TV show up on TV for?

Debbie Parkes One year, almost.

King 60439, Almost one year? That would've been almost two years.

Debbie Parkes Enjoy Classical Musical Just For You

lol i liked my own comment

Lollllll

It had that rather cosy and classy feeling that BBC Television had at that time. Not surprising as some BBC people were involved.

That's peak vaporwave.

@@doubledeckers Also it was the same person (Martin Lambie Nairn) that designed the look of both BSB and BBC in the early nineties.

Same

@@GryphLane Even though I had not yet been born when BSB was around, it does remind me a lot of that classy look the likes of the BBC and ITV had at the time, so it doesn't surprise me Lambie Nairn did both this and the 1985 "COW" BBC 1 globe...

I use to watch BSB back in my Uni Days til Sky merged with them

IT WAS JUST A BABY :(

@@OFFICERNEGATIVE yeah

I thought you meant the Samsung Galaxy

I thought it was Samsung Galaxy

A similar story here!

It wasn’t high definition, it was still PAL resolution, just not without composite video artefacts.

It just shows you how vile the people at Sky are

I think she looks more classy than that BBC test card girl.

Technically it isn’t the BBC’s. It was owned by both (BBC and the ITV) television companies.

Following up to my earlier reply, yes the BBC created it, but the IBA owned 50% shares of it

Wasn't she in all of the different BSB test cards? Would love to know what she's up to today in the same way we all know the lass from the BBC testcard.

@@MarkPentler I saw a Movie Channel testcard with a different girl as a director.

Umm

God ur mum must have been young having u then? 17 🤣

I was born WAY AFTER the merger like 16-18 years after. I feel that the merger was the fall for tv in the UK. A huge variety of channels that weren’t even involved in the merger was gone. Lifestyle, Shop!, etc. and don’t ask how I know cuz I’m 13 years old and I’m American

As someone who rants about random stuff all the time, I feel ya so hard. Nobody shares my niche interests in my house either

@@nutoutpizzadthehut Don't worry. I live at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and I rant and rave about the Joanna Lopez mystery so there.

you missed the best times in history

watchviewer which is probably a sign as to why they went bust....

@@thecoachmansfolly Sadly, quanity often rules over quality.

I agree the idents and technology were high class. All of its programmes though, are you SURE? Have you ever watched Jupiter Moon?

Quite funny. Galaxy was full of reruns from the 70's and Sky One was the UK version of Fox TV.

@@davidm2364 Agree. D2-MAC was way superior to PAL and SECAM in analogic tv transmision, but only Scandinavian countries used it, and only until the end of the 90's when DVB-S was already widely used in satellite in Europe. I've been watching videos of Galaxy content and quality is quite poor compared to Sky One, the UK version of the american FOX-TV.

At least southern didn't have a gunshot!

Beautiful Ending

hol up I didn’t expect to find you here

The bang at the end-

It's true that BSB was superb quality. It was like having a direct link to the studio. The technical standards were imposed as part of the licence. There were then technical issues with the domestic "dishes" which caused delay and by all accounts BSB spent money lavishly. Murdoch went with the poorer existing Astra system and the UK government did nothing to protect BSB by stopping him broadcasting into the UK. I can recommend the book "Dished!" which is the history of BSB. It was a turning point in British television. Up until BSB, which was designed to be a satellite version of the BBC, the ethos had always been to deliver the best quality pictures. That then reversed and the mentality was that viewers would tolerate smoothed-out sub VHS definition with digital artifacts. Which is what some channels have offered since. It was a financial disaster for Granada which then had a second one with OnDigital. Many of us think that the day British Satellite Broadcasting closed was the beginning of the end of quality TV in the UK. Other significant things happened at around the same time, such as the BBC ceasing studio drama and closing Lime Grove Studios and the TV Theatre.

A closedown that may look a bit like a hijacking.

Mark Genner, Yes, that is the end of Galaxy TV forever.

Mark Genner, There we go.

@@mango4606 Thank You.

@@debbieparkes3588 Thank You.

Mark Genner, Yes. How many years did Galaxy TV show up on TV for?

SKY?? British satellite broadcasting ive still got my bsb dish and decoder boxed decoder no box for the dish

0

Debbie Parkes, It never lasted a year.

BSB 🇬🇧

it went defunct on the 2nd of november, just sayin’

I don't know why...

@Nikkcade bsb dont died relly then konw as sky uk today

@@GuilhermeHuertaeSilva It got merged with its main competitor Sky to form BSkyB

It really was sinister - but that's $ky, Murdoch and Fox all over, they know it, its mart of their marketing as a big two fingers up to the little guy by a sadistic dominatrix of the media world.

I just thought that the actual closedown with the exploding sound was creepy.

That was just on the final night. The staff's way of saying "the end".

Galaxy TV Made For Ending

Now that's fancy!

I think it would be worth it.

Zachery Alderton, Not even 1.

Only lasted 9 months

r/wooosh

r)woooooshh

An explosion.

こんにちは

My idea: _"And now, we hereby come to the end of an era. On behalf of both Galaxy and British Satellite Broadcasting, this is Trish Bertram saying goodnight and goodbye!"_

Tbh how they closed down used to scare me back in like mid-2020 xD

Scary Like Halloween

The screen shrinking and the gunshot sound was actually a bit scary.

The music that accompanies the test card is good.

No, the shotgun sound was the real deal.

British Satellite Broadcasting. It was the government approved satellite service. Exceptionally high-quality with an uncompressed RGB picture and five channels. However Rupert Murdoch was able to launch his unapproved crappy Sky service a little earlier with much poorer quality and eventually he took over BSB. To be fair BSB wasted money and there were delays with the technology. Some people think this was a turning point when quality died on British television in terms of content and picture quality. A book called "Dished" tells the story.

​@@doubledeckers Uncompressed RGB isn't accurate. It was a Y/C separated system that still had much lower chroma bandwidth. Better than Composite video, but nowhere near uncompressed RGB. (The set-top box could decode the signal and output it as analog RGB over SCART, though). Agreed, Dished is a great read.

It was meant to rival sky but instead sky bought it and closed all the channels.

Basically Sky but more advanced, lasted half a year then Sky ate it up.

That's Naughty.

None.

The channel was only on for 9 months

R/woosh

r/wooooooosh

1990