Galaxy (television)

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Galaxy
Launched	25 March 1990
Closed	2 December 1990 (Replaced by Sky One)
Owned by	BSB (Later BSkyB)
Audience share	n/a (Channel, Source:closed)
Availability At time of closure
Satellite
Analogue	Marcopolo 1, 11.86174
Cable
	Available on some services

Galaxy, one of the five channels run by British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB), was the General Entertainment channel, it carried quite a few American imports as well as a few home grown shows, fans will remember the soap set in space Jupiter Moon, and the magazine show 31 West, who got their name from the actual placing of the Marcopolo Satellite at 31 degrees west, that was broadcasting the channel. It also included repeats from the BBC library - Doctor Who, Secret Army, Grange Hill, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army and Porridge. American series broadcast included China Beach and Murphy Brown.

It had a section of children's programmes called the Galaxy Club, which contained quite a bit of home grown programming, mixed with imported cartoons and series such as the cartoons Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, this broadcast during the week, in a kind of 'before and after school' slot and on a Saturday with an afternoon show called 'Cool Cube', This was sometimes cancelled to make way for special weekends, such as the Galaxy's Doctor Who marathon over the weekend of September 22-23 1990.

The channel however was short lived after the merger of BSB and Sky, and the transponder was given over to Sky One, who took a couple of the programmes from Galaxy and incorporated them into its channels line up.