Talk:Sky Television (1984–1990)

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Infobox
Someone screwed up the infobox. Malpass93 (talk) 16:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

other details
The following details come from the episode one Channel 4 Doc "Satellite Wars" - Pioneers and Pirates


 * Brian Haynes asked Thames tv to back him and there said no.
 * He rented the satellite for £300 an hour
 * The Satellite were owned by Phone companies and tried to deny the company the use.

Requested move 21 September 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved, to "Sky Television (1989–1990)". (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:18, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


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Sky Television plc → Sky Television (1989) – Current title has "plc" distinguishing it from the other Sky Televisions. As per Naming conventions (companies), legal status suffixes such as "plc", "Inc." and so on are generally discouraged as disambiguators.

This applies particularly here- while people may recognise that "plc" implies it's a company, that's not useful if (as in this case) so are all the other Sky Televisions. Most people wouldn't know- or care- which one happened to be the "plc" without further explanation.

(I've suggested a new name- "1989" intended to make clear that this is the historical entity- but if anyone has a better suggestion and/or one more closely in line with the guidelines, I'd be happy to consider that instead.) Ubcule (talk) 13:37, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Disagree, the company is different. the company which was created in 1990 was never owned by sky fully, hence why it was called BSKYB... you do know there is more than one SKY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazyseiko (talk • contribs)
 * - I think you've misunderstood the point being made. I'm well aware that the (pre-BSkyB) company was a different entity- hence this edit and the reason it has its own article.
 * My point was that the title of this article- nothing more- should be changed to make clearer that it refers to the historical (1989-90) entity. I'd guess that most people wouldn't know from the title alone which one "Sky Television plc" referred to (even if it was the only one with that specific name).
 * Hope this makes it clearer. Ubcule (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Move to Sky Television (1989–90) Sky Television (1989–1990), formatting consistent with MOS:DATERANGE. WikiRedactor (talk) 21:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


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