British Satellite Broadcasting

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British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB ) was a company founded in the late 1980s to enable direct satellite reception in the UK. It was in competition with Sky Television in this segment .

history

The British Satellite Broadcasting Consortium was founded in 1986 by Granada , Pearson , Virgin and Amstrad . At the beginning of 1988 three television stations were licensed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ). The five television channels The Movie Channel , The Sports Channel , Galaxy , The Power Station and Now were not started until March 1990, over a year after the launch of the TV channels of the competitor Sky Television , and via the Marcopolo satellites Marcopolo 1 and Marcopolo 2 common. In contrast to Sky Television , however, the then new, partially digital transmission standard D-MAC was used as the broadcast standard.

As a result of fierce competition with Sky Television and the use of the new D-MAC television standard on the BSS frequencies assigned to the United Kingdom, which were assigned the expensive technology of the direct broadcasting satellite , BSB suffered massive losses by 1990. BSB finally merged in November 1990 with its competitor Sky Television to form today's company British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ). The five television stations were initially taken over - The Movie Channel existed by name until 1997 and was then renamed Sky Movies 2 ; from The Sports Channel was in April 1991. Sky Sports with its offshoots. The BSB shareholders Granada , Pearson and Chargeurs received shares in the BSkyB holding, but sold their shares during the 1990s.

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