Did anyone on this bee-yotch have a Squarial? (The BSB question)

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Did you have BSB instead of Sky (or more likely instead of nothing). If you did do you have any recollections of the vaunted original programming, their version of MTV etc etc. Any recollections gratefully received.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 31 October 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

no, but a friend of mine thinks the music channel (Galaxy, wasn't it? no connection to the latter-day radio network of the same name) would have "wiped the floor" with MTV Europe if BSB had survived.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 31 October 2002 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK you naughty chap.

― Emma, Thursday, 31 October 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my own homework, trying to find primary sources. I really want someone who saw Jupiter Moon (science fiction soap opera) to reply. I think the music channel may have been called The Power Station, I know it featured an early Chris Evans on it.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 31 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember the ad for BSB rather well - it featured a nice-looking chap snogging the face off some bird until he was distracted by what was on the telly. I think I still have it somewhere on a film recorded over the Christmas hols. But we never had a squarial. Heck, we didn't have a microwave or video until the mid-nineties.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 31 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Who was Superchannel funded by? Might have predated BSB (cable). I think it's that that I have a long 1987 interview with Morrissey taped from. Not by me though.

'Heil Honey, I'm Home' is the only BSB programming I'm really aware of.

Matthew Wh*te at school was the only person I knew with a squarial. His dad was in advertising I think, and firmly predicted a BSB triumph over the trash of Sky. I didn't like him much so it was with mixed emotions that I witnessed BSB's failure.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

bet he got teased something rotten about that asterisk in his name.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Backstreet Boys had a cable channel?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Not a channel, an entire broadcasting platform Dan. Damn you Rupert Murdoch.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

(who Lance Bass et al put in charge of the N'Sync network, while he was busy singing)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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