The Guardian stated, through her recent hosting of Sky Television's coverage of The Oscars, Winkleman had " proved both a passionate and engaging advocate of cinema ", while her husband Kris Thykier is a film producer with credits on several mainstream releases.

Sid Waddell, who later became a commentator for Sky Sports, was at the time producer of Yorkshire Television's Indoor League-a show with pub games tournaments.

Albany has a site for Sky Television's Prime TV, as well as the Broadcast Centre for Sky PPV.

The Guardian stated, through her recent hosting of Sky Television's coverage of The Oscars, Winkleman had " proved both a passionate and engaging advocate of cinema ", while her husband Kris Thykier is a film producer with credits on several mainstream releases.

He had previously worked for Anglia Television's About Anglia, ITN and Sky News.

Sirius 1 ( later Sirius W ) was purchased from British Sky Broadcasting after Sky Television's merger with British Satellite Broadcasting ( the merger was conducted on Sky's terms and BSB's satellites were sold in favour of Sky's leased Astra satellite operations ).

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 ).

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the costs associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News.

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

A key claim made by Lord Lambert in his report had been that the channel was slower to react to breaking news compared with its main rival Sky News.

Sky News Australia is Fox's sister channel.

It is run as a sister channel to BSkyB's popular Sky News.

FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel ; during major news stories it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

It is run as a sister channel to BSkyB's popular Sky News, which is broadcast on Channel 103.

It also broadcasts its sister channel, Sky News.

It is run as a sister channel to BSkyB's own Sky News.

FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel ; during major news stories it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

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.

* Sky News Australia, Australian 24 hour news channel

The transmissions, on 11. 680 GHz ( Vertical polarity, FEC 2 / 3, S / R 27. 5MBaud ), currently appear only by adding the channel manually on Sky Digital equipment, and the channel is currently recognised by a code number, “ 51108 ”.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

* 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.

Constructed well before 1492 CE, these Ancestral Pueblo towns and villages in the Southwestern United States were located in various defensive positions, for example, on high steep mesas such as at Mesa Verde or present-day Acoma Pueblo, called the " Sky City ", in New Mexico.

Charles Stross's books Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise make use of " causal channels " which use entangled particles for instantaneous two-way communication.

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

An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

Sky News had had a free hand with domestic news for over eight years ( since 5 February 1989 ) and being owned by News International their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output.

In 1949, the team acquired a Douglas R4D Sky Train for logistics to and from show sites.

In 1953 the team traded its Sky Train for a Curtiss R5C Commando.

The first new television channels launched for carriage on cable systems ( going live in March 1984 ) were Sky Channel, Screensport, Music Box and TEN-The Movie Channel.

Bowie reunited with Visconti in 1998 to record "( Safe in This ) Sky Life " for The Rugrats Movie.

BFBS TV1, BFBSTV2, BFBSTV Kids and Sky TV News for non-military.

They helped to make stars of actors like John Mills, Jack Hawkins and Kenneth More, and some of the most successful included The Cruel Sea ( 1953 ), The Dam Busters ( 1954 ), The Colditz Story ( 1955 ) and Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ).