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Sky One is a television channel which is owned by Sky International.

Pre-launch (1988 to 1989)
The channel was first announced on 1 August 1988 as the first ever 24 hour widescreen channel. In Sky International Studios, prototype computer-animated objects were shown in widescreen, three were shown: The channel was expected to launch in Spring 1989. In news, many people were amazed to see various objects in widescreen for the first time ever, although some thought that it would cost a lot of money, which it did (around £4,000).
 * One was a shark chasing a fish
 * One was a yellow man bouncing on a trampoline and
 * One was a car crashing into a building and blowing up

1989 to 1993
The channel first launched on 31 March 1989 at 7:04pm. A preview was again shown 4 minutes earlier to prepare for the launch. The first television idents shown has the Sky Int. logo in blue and clouds appearing everywhere. In one of the idents, the clouds were moving slow, in one, the clods were moving fast, and blew the Sky Int. logo a bit, and in one, the clouds were moving very fast and nearly blew the logo away!

1993 to 1997
The channel aired The Simpsons for the first time on 4 January 1993, at the same time, the channel introduced a new logo. The channel also received new sister channels Sky Movies and Sky News (which were announced in November 1992). The new idents involved flashing lights, etc.