Sky Television plc Sky Television plc Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989. Sky Television and its rival British Satellite Broadcasting suffered large financial losses and merged on 2 November 1990 to form British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). Programming merger took effect on 1 December 1990. Sky Television plc was originally Satellite Television Ltd. (SATV), a consortium set up by Brian Haynes in November 1980. Haynes was a former journalist employed at Thames Television. In 1979 he produced a documentary for the "TV Eye" strand which
National Broadcasting Service CTV, channels 9 & 14. National Broadcasting Service The National Broadcasting Service was a state owned broadcasting station in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The precursor to the National Broadcasting Service (NBS Radio) was Radio Guardian, established on October 13,1957, by the Thompson Group, the British owners of the Trinidad Guardian newspaper. On November 1, 1969, the Government under Dr Eric Williams acquired Radio Guardian and Trinidad and Tobago Television (ttt). Radio Guardian was renamed the National Broadcasting Service of Trinidad and Tobago of Trinidad and Tobago (NBS Radio 610). The radio broadcast and production studios continued to be