The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

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.

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.

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.

In 1982 Uli Jon Roth developed the " Sky Guitar ," with a vastly extended number of frets, which was the first guitar to venture into the upper registers of the violin.

Many of these were first published in serial form under other titles, e. g., Farmer in the Sky was published as Satellite Scout in the Boy Scout magazine Boys ' Life.

In 2009, Ono recorded Between My Head and the Sky, her first album to be released as " Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band " since 1973's Feeling the Space.

* April 24 – Patrick Moore presents the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts.

In the typical form of her myth, Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the fourth intercalary day.

" Although the band virtually had no support by television or by radio broadcasting in its first four years, Korn would go on to influence Pleymo, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Evanescence, P. O. D., Cold, Staind, System of a Down, Seether, One Minute Silence, Kittie, Endo, Taproot, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Otep, Hoobastank, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Impending Doom, Five Pointe O, Lacuna Coil, Chris Volz, Videodrone, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bleed the Sky, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Shinedown, Coal Chamber, Three Days Grace, Flymore, Bring Me the Horizon, Trapt, Molotov and other bands.

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

) In 2007, she re-teamed with her Grace and Gratitude producer, Amy Sky, for Christmas Wish ( No. 187 Pop ) which was sold exclusively by Target in its first year of release.

The WNBA awarded its first real expansion team to Chicago ( later named the Sky ) in February 2006.

* 1997 — Two Micron All Sky Survey ( 2MASS ) commences, first version of Hipparcos Catalogue published

*" Giant Lights Paint The Sky To Work New Magic " July Popular Mechanics -- i. e. early article on one of the first commercial use of searchlights.

The first time it was acknowledged in novel form was in Pebble in the Sky.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series, making R. Daneel Olivaw appear again twenty thousand years later in the age of the Galactic Empire, in sequels and prequels to the original Foundation trilogy ; and in the final book of the Robots series — Robots and Empire — we learn how the worlds that later formed the Empire were settled, and how Earth became radioactive ( which was first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky ).

* Pebble in the Sky ( 1950 ), his first novel

The Freund's Sky Club Supper Club in Plover, Wisconsin is believed to be the very first salad bar.

His introductory story, Island in the Sky, raises many issues about the benefits but also the dangers of atomic physics just a few years before the first atom bombs were developed.

* Red Baron, the character that the first player controls in Namco's 1985 arcade game, Sky Kid

The first invention of the series ( and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories ), the Flying Lab ( named Sky Queen ), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

This album marked the first time Stonehill and Norman appeared together on a recording since 1980's The Sky is Falling.

Quoting directly from the Electronic Arts press release announcing the Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn expansion, Ultima Online was " The first MMORPG to reach the 100, 000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it ".

On January 9, 2006, the day of his first broadcast, Stern and his agent received 34. 3 million shares of stock from the company worth $ 218 million for exceeding subscriber targets set in 2004.

The first 911 system was installed in Haleyville, Alabama, in February 1968 as a way to quickly connect a subscriber to the local police station.

The first DNSBL was the Real-time Blackhole List ( RBL ), created in 1997, at first as a BGP feed by Paul Vixie, and then as a DNSBL by Eric Ziegast as part of Vixie's Mail Abuse Prevention System ( MAPS ); Dave Rand at Abovenet was its first subscriber.

A special initial event message is sent when a control point first subscribes ; this event message contains the names and values for all evented variables and allows the subscriber to initialize its model of the state of the service.

WebTV closed its first round of financing, US $ 1, 500, 000, from Marvin Davis in September, 1995 and developed a prototype WebTV set-top box, based upon a custom chip and custom software, and also developed a WebTV online service that the WebTV set-top boxes would automatically dial into using a dial-up modem that provided subscriber services such as HTML-based email, and proxied websites accessed by the WebTV set-top box so as to make them display more efficiently on a television screen.

The peer-reviewed journal, first published in 1880, is circulated weekly and has a print subscriber base of around 130, 000.

Mme Geoffrin, whose Parisian salon Grimm frequented, enrolled Stanisaus as a subscriber, writing him " Here is your first number, together with Grimm's accompanying letter.

Reagan, a longtime subscriber to National Review, first became politically prominent during Goldwater's campaign.

If a subscriber has no entry in the home subscriber register of the network ( e. g. Home Location Register ( HLR ) in GSM networks or local customer database in WLANs ), the required subscriber data must first be requested by the visited network e. g. from the subscriber's home network in order that the subscriber can be authenticated and any authorization for using the network services can be checked.

Voice messaging enables any subscriber ( someone with a mailbox number ) to send messages directly to any or many subscribers ' mailboxes without first calling them.

The UK telephone numbering system used a similar two-letter code after the initial zero to form the first part of the subscriber trunk dialling code for that region – for example, Aylesbury was assigned 0AY6 which translated into 0296.

For example, they think that Athens's area code is 210 while, actually, Athens's area code is 21, 0 being the first digit of the subscriber number.

It parented two of the first three GSCs at Worcester and Wolverhampton to go-live when the transit network was inaugurated in 1971 which eventually provided universal U. K. automatic subscriber dialling and was completed in 1979.

In order to use a callback service, a subscriber is allocated a unique number in, for example, the US, which must first be dialled in order to trigger a return call.

Each subscriber was given a seven digit number where the first three digits corresponded to the local exchange name, and were chosen to give the name a meaningful mnemonic.

Thus a subscriber in Wimbledon could be allocated the number WIMbledon 1234 ; the first three letters, written in capitals, indicated the code to be dialled.

In the Director system, the first three digits of the subscriber number are translated to a variable length string, of from one to six digits.

* Send the subscriber data to a VLR or SGSN when a subscriber first roams there.