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
Now (British TV channel) Now (British TV channel) Now was a British television channel transmitted as part of the British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) service during 1990. The Now channel was originally designed to be a live 24 hours news channel similar to CNN and Sky News, with most of the content provided by ITN. Between the award of the franchise and the launch the channel, ITN quitted its involvement with BSB after failing to agree with the latter on how to provide its news service, and the Now channel's remit was changed to have lifestyle programmes in the day and current affairs shows in