* Arsenal news from Sky Sports

* David Lloyd, cricketer, now a pundit for Sky Sports

Away qualifiers are shown on Sky Sports.

Sky Sports used the song as the intro for Super League in the late 2000s and the X Factor frequently use the song for the contestants ' introductions.

* Sky Sports – Club news – Fixtures & results – Club statistics – Video

On 17 July 2009 Crowe took to the commentary box for the British sports channel, Sky Sports, as the ' third man ' during the second Test of the 2009 Ashes series, between England and Australia.

BSkyB was forced by the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ) to withdraw from the consortium on competition grounds ; this effectively placed Sky in direct competition with the newly launched service ( although BSkyB was still forced to provide key channels such as Sky Movies and Sky Sports to the service ).

In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked Van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short.

The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled " The Entertainers " by Sky Sports.

* David Gower, former England cricketer and current cricket commentator for Sky Sports was educated for a time in Quorn, at the Old Primary School

The game was shown live on Sky Sports and resulted in a 1 – 2 loss.

This re-recording was driven by Graeme Hill, and Sky TV's Sports Cafe.

* Stuart Barnes, former England and British Lions rugby player, commentator for Sky Sports

Sky launched their HD service in May 2006, initially charging a £ 300 setup fee and an additional £ 10 / month for several subscription HD channels, including HD versions of Sky One, Sky Movies and Sky Sports.

Since 1990, the best player in the League Cup final – as chosen by the Sky Sports television panel – has been presented with the Alan Hardaker trophy, named after the former secretary of The Football League who devised the Football League Cup.

Sky Travel, UK History, Sky News, Sky Sports News, The Hits ( now 4Music ) and TMF ( now Viva ) were available from the start.

On 23 August 2010, Sky Sports News was removed from Freeview and replaced with Sky3 + 1.

* Mike " Stevo " Stephenson ( born 1947 ), Sky Sports commentator and former rugby league footballer ; captained Dewsbury to their only championship success in 1973.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

* 1986 – Reby Sky, American model and wrestler

* 1979 – Karl Wolf, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Sky )

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

# Douglas R4D Sky Train — 1949 – 1955

While the Rockies struggled to a 68 – 94 record — the second worst record in club history — the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, went 78 – 65.

* 1952 – Sky Gilbert, Canadian writer

* Sky Divers – slideshow by The First Post

* 1986 – Adam Young, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Owl City, Sky Sailing, and Swimming with Dolphins )

* 1992 – Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter and actress

* 1982 – Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor ( Fly to the Sky )

* 1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer-songwriter ( Papa Roach and Fight the Sky )

* 1981 – Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer ( Fly to the Sky )

* 1928 – Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler ( d. 1998 )

* 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

* 1967 – Billy Corgan, American musician ( Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, Spirits in the Sky, and Starchildren )

* 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40 % complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed " Lucy " ( after The Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

* Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa, Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje, Snow Lion Publications 2003, ISBN 1-55939-195-2

* Martin Brunt ( Crime correspondent, Sky News )

* Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce ( Sky Atlantic, Special ) 2012

In response to the schedule's unpopularity with viewers, changes took place in July 2006, with the removal of the evening programmes Sky Report and World News Tonight with James Rubin in favour of rolling news and an interactive programme, Sky News with Martin Stanford, and the return to a two-presenter format on Sky News Today.

Sky News put more emphasis on interactive news with Martin Stanford's new Sky. com News programme.

Further changes were made to the Sky News schedule on 8 September 2008, with Colin Brazier presenting a new show from 1pm-2pm, The Live Desk, Martin Stanford's Sky. Com News became SkyNews. com and moved to 7pm every weeknight, and Sky Midnight News was introduced.

A production starring Walter Matthau as Nathan Detroit, Helen Gallagher as Adelaide, Ray Shaw as Sky and Leila Martin as Sarah had 31 performances, running from April 20 to May 1, and May 31 to June 12, 1955.

Of Mohawk descent, born in 1841 at Six Nations near what is now Brantford, Ontario, Oronhyatekha (" Burning Sky ") was baptized Peter Martin and later attended Oxford where he became an MD.

His father subsequently recovered, and Salmon obtained a job as a British Government press officer, before going on, in 1978, to work as a junior reporter for the Chatham News and Standard newspaper, where he worked alongside Martin Brunt, now crime correspondent of Sky News.

In 2010 Martin & Tichenor reduced the first five season of the hit television series " Lost " into a comical ten minutes for Sky TV in Britain.

Sky returned in late 1987 with the Mozart album, which united the band with the orchestra of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

* James Conroyd Martin is the author of Push not the River and its sequel, Against a Crimson Sky.

Other national broadcasters who started their careers at the station include Matthew Amroliwala ( BBC News 24 ), Nick Barraclough ( BBC Radio 2 ), Ian Peacock ( BBC Radio 4 ), Martin Popplewell ( Sky News ) and Mark Saggers ( talkSPORT ).

He scored arguably one of his finest goals for the Sky Blues in the quarter final against Sheffield Wednesday ; splitting the defence on the break with David Bennett before a rasping shot past keeper Martin Hodge.

Species seen: Stone Curlew, Grey Partridge, Sky Lark, Corn Bunting, Red-legged Partridge, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tree Sparrow, Linnet, European Goldfinch, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher.

During the television coverage of the qualifying session of the 2012 German Grand Prix held on the new circuit, former F1 driver and current lead TV commentator for Sky Sports Formula One coverage Martin Brundle, stated that he, along with other drivers of his era ( mid-1980s to the mid-1990s ), didn't really enjoy racing at the old Hockenheim as the long straights often saw only seven or eight finishers from twenty six starters, with most dropping out through engine or transmission failure caused by the long periods at high speed on the forest straights.

Another 1953 Republic serial, Zombies of the Stratosphere, was originally written as a sequel to Radar Men from the Moon but, for unexplained reasons, the lead character's name was changed from Commando Cody to Larry Martin at the start of shooting, which occurred after the first three episodes of " Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe " were completed, thus interrupting production of Commando Cody.

* Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teaching of the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Michele Martin.

( For information on Sky Witness, see the work of Simon Martin and Nicolai Grube.

* Alan Partridge On Open Books With Martin Bryce ( 2012 ) for Sky Atlantic.