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The channel among other things incorporated a large number of American imports in its schedules, and also increased the quantity produced of home grown programmes, including Sky Trax which covered European music, and children's programmes like Fun Factory and The DJ Kat Show, many of which came not only from Sky's own studios in London ( having already abandoned the Molinare facilities by then ), but also included programmes produced in the Netherlands by John de Mol's production company.

Also, the new management adopted a more aggressive policy to reach an increasing number of cable households throughout Europe.

Shortly after the channel's relaunch, the first cable system in the United Kingdom to incorporate it was Swindon Cable.

In Ireland, Sky Channel started to become widely available among cable systems in around 1987.