Sky Movies was originally a single movie channel offered as part of Sky's original 4-channel package on the Astra 1A satellite on 5 February 1989.

The split was entirely amicable and the band had no doubts about carrying on, despite the fact that Monkman had been Sky's most prominent original composer and arranger.

This was Sky's first album to feature no original material.

Sky2 is essentially a " catch-up " service for Sky's main entertainment channel Sky1, broadcasting popular Sky1 shows a few days after their original airing.

BSkyB have worked with BBC Worldwide before, as BBC Worldwide hold distribution rights to many of Sky's original commissions, such as Mad Dogs, David Attenborough's Flying Monsters 3D, Mark Billingham's Thorne and Chris Ryan's Strike Back.

The channel returned to its original Sky channel in April 2005 as part of Sky's Basic subscription package, apparently having dropped its original plans.

The change in cover art could be attributed to the original art's similarity to Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place.

It was rebranded as Sky2 in 31 August 2008, when Sky's entertainment channels rebranded into the solids, liquids and particles theme.

Sky's managing director of entertainment Sophie Turner Laing said it seems that the channel would be given a " whole new makeover " that would make it more entertainment oriented.

Unlike the BDO world championship, which is covered via the general entertainment BBC Two channel, Sky's dedicated sports channel allowed the PDC matches to be covered in their entirety.

It was essentially a " shop window " service for Sky's main entertainment channel Sky1 and its other subscription services, which served to " offer digital terrestrial viewers the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of popular programmes from Sky ".

In 2008, Sky's entertainment channels changed the wording in the logos to numbers, hence Sky Three became Sky3, assuming the theme of particles.

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.

On Sky's digital satellite service, the channel was made available to the Sports Pack from 1 September 2009, in addition to being available in the News & Events Pack.

New carriage agreements secured wholesale distribution of Sky's basic channel line-up, including Sky1 and Sky Arts, and the VMtv channels, on Virgin Media's cable TV service.

The channel is available through Sky's pay subscription in a non-exclusive deal, ITV has held talks with other providers including Virgin Media.

The channel was FTA on Sky's EPG on channel number 261, in the Lifestyle and Culture block, until it was removed on 2 July 2010.

Sky Real Lives programmes were showcased on Sky's main channels ; Sky1, Sky2, but mostly on its free-to-air sister channel, Sky3.

In 2004, Sky Travel showed the first two episodes of the fourth season of US drama 24, simulcasting with Sky's primary channel, Sky One.

The channel is available through Sky's pay subscription in a non-exclusive deal, ITV has held talks with other providers including Virgin Media.

Its channel number is currently 73, but is likely to change as many more channels are appearing on Sky's list.

Some of Sky's special programmes, mainly WWF wrestling specials, managed to surpass both BBC1 and ITV among cable audiences.

This service was manned by the Game Genie Guru of the early 1990s, Mark Stoneham, who also regularly featured in console magazines listing his latest collection of up-to-date codes and making the odd guest appearance on Channel 4's GamesMaster and Sky's Games World.

( also known as Noreaga ), a New York-based rapper, and his producing of Nina Sky's 2004 hit " Oye Mi Canto ", which featured prominent reggaeton artists Tego Calderón and Daddy Yankee, reggaeton quickly gained popularity in the US.

Following the release of the album, she was featured on a remix for labelmate Lil ' Mo's track " Gangster ", and Nina Sky's hype single " Time to Go ".

A stargazy pie appears in the film adaptation of James and the Giant Peach and one was featured for comic effect in the BBC television series Pie in the Sky's third episode of season two, The Policeman's Daughter.

Most notably, Explosions in the Sky's music is heavily featured in the Friday Night Lights movie and television show.

The Sky's The Limit ( 1943 ) is a musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan and Eric Blore, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

He is the narrator for series 1-3 of Sky's police documentary Brit Cops.

The airport offers activities such as the Sky's the Limit Skydiving Center and a golf driving range.

He reprised this role with Astaire for a final time in The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ), delivering the line: " If I were not such a gentleman's gentleman, I could be such a cad's cad ".

Other channels, such as Sky's sports and movie channels, cannot be viewed unless the viewing card is being used in its specifically paired set top box.

A number of commentators appear on Football First, including Sky's regulars such as Martin Tyler and Rob Hawthorne.

Although some of the channels which had been part of their package, such as CNN and CNBC Europe, have continued broadcasting unaffected by Sky's departure.

Amstrad was key to the introduction of Sky, as it was the only manufacturer producing receiver boxes and dishes at the system's launch, and has continued to manufacture set top boxes for Sky, from analogue to digital and now including Sky's Sky + digital video recorder.

The band was displeased with the single and re-recorded it for their third album The Sky's Gone Out, in 1982.

He next appeared opposite the seventeen-year-old Joan Leslie in the wartime drama The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ), where he introduced Arlen and Mercer's " One for My Baby " while dancing on a bar counter in a dark and troubled routine.

Since the DBS nomenclature is rarely used in the UK or Ireland, the popularity of Sky's service has caused the terms " minidish " and " digibox " to be applied to products other than Sky's hardware.

Amelia Earhart: The Sky's No Limit.

Similarly, Telewest's product incorporated three tuners while Sky's incorporated only two, meaning that Telewest's service could record two channels at the same time while watching a third.

" The Club at Spanish Peaks is an exclusive private ski & golf resort that has 3 chairlifts & 13 ski runs connecting it to the Big Sky Ski Resort at the base of Big Sky's Southern Comfort lift.

For most of the 1990s however, Sky's DBS customer base in Ireland was dwarfed by the large numbers receiving its channels via cable.

Much earlier, in 1987, Tandberg Television and the IBA's R & D and Satellite Engineering groups had worked together to build a satellite broadcasting system for the UK based on the ill fated MAC system operated by Sky's rival British Satellite Broadcasting.

* " Sky's the Limit " contains a sample of " My Flame " by Bobby Caldwell.

On 1 March 2007, the contract for Virgin Media to provide Sky's basic channels ( including Sky News ) on their cable TV service expired after a dispute between Virgin Media and BSkyB.

BSB criticised Sky's proposals, claiming that the PAL pictures would be too degraded by satellite transmission, and that in any case, BSB would broadcast superior programming.

The launch was after a 6 month delay and 14 months after Sky's launch.

BSB were due to start broadcasting in September 1989 but were delayed by problems with the design and manufacturing of its square receiver and because BSB wanted to avoid Sky's experience of SKY launching when most shops had no equipment to sell.

Its D-MAC receivers were more expensive than Sky's PAL equivalents and incompatible with them.

Sky's head start over BSB proved that the PAL system would give adequate picture quality and that many viewers would be happy to watch Sky's more populist output as opposed to waiting for the promised quality programming pledged by BSB.

However its D-MAC receivers were more expensive than Sky's PAL equivalents and incompatible with them.

The Marco Polo House headquarters were vacated, leading to redundancy for most BSB staff with only a few moving to work at Sky's HQ in Isleworth.

His 1970 game show The Sky's the Limit was generally considered a failure and was dropped by most ITV regional companies after the first run, though it lasted until 1974 in the Yorkshire and Granada regions, eventually ending due to low ratings, combined with a falling-out between Green and producer Jess Yates.

The replacement producer for Opportunity Knocks after the failure of The Sky's the Limit was Jess Yates.

All Digiboxes used to run on OpenTV ( the latest HD boxes now use what is known internally as Project Darwin software ) with Sky's EPG software and NDS VideoGuard conditional access.