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unusual facts about Sky (UK



15965 Robertcox

15965 Robertcox in an asteroid named in honor of Robert E. Cox (1917–1989), long-time editor of "Gleanings for Amateur Telescope Makers" in Sky & Telescope magazine, and neighbor, mentor and friend of the discoverer of the asteroid, James M. Roe.

Box Television

Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from Box Television available on the Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media digital TV platforms.

Carlton Cinema

It was removed from NTL's digital channel line-up in September 2002, and Carlton was negotiating with BSkyB to get the channel onto Sky, but no deal was agreed.

Doug Fieger

Before forming The Knack, Fieger played bass and sang lead in the group Sky, which was founded by producer Jimmy Miller (Rolling Stones, Traffic, Blind Faith), famous also for being the "Mr. Jimmy" in the Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want", while Fieger was still in high school.

Geoff Lloyd

In 2011 and 2012, Lloyd and Port worked on a similar online project for Sky in which they presented Thronecast; a programme reviewing the latest episodes of Game of Thrones.

ITV London

ITV London is also unique in that it supplies the network feed for the other franchises and is the sole alternative ITV region to Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media customers.

Journal of Irreproducible Results

Astronomer Norman Sperling, an assistant editor at Sky & Telescope magazine, became editor and publisher of the Journal in 2004, with promises to rejuvenate it.

Media of Scotland

BBC Alba is the only Gaelic language television service available in Scotland, broadcasting digital terrestrial platform Freeview, as well as Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat.

Midlands Today

Midlands Today is broadcast from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in the West Midlands and can be watched in any part of the UK on Sky, Freesat and in the rest of Europe via Astra 1N at 28.2° East (10788V 22000 5/6).

Music India

The channel had broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky from 5 December 2007 until 10 April 2013, when it was replaced with PTC Punjabi.

Scott Houghton

Houghton has also had television exposure, as he also appears in the Sky TV Police series Cop Squad that follows the going's on at Cambridgeshire Constabulary.

Sky – It's Me

Sofia Rotaru performed this song at an open air concert in Kiev, in Independence Maidan Square in 2006 (the appearance of Sofia Rotaru was organised by Ukrainian TV channel Inter), at numerous solo concerts and tours during 2004-2007, in duet with Stas Pieha at Star Factory, as well as at Blue Light 2004 on Russian TV Channel "Russia".

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

During the period viewers had to use other means to watch the series including ITV Player or watch the show on ITV's London feed, on Sky or Virgin Media.

Tim Marshall

Timothy John 'Tim' Marshall (born 1959), is Foreign Affairs Editor for Sky News, the 24 hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting.


see also

Ocean Sky UK

Ocean Sky UK was a private jet company owned by Ocean Group International.