I soo miss this channel. Eurosport was just a child,... that became a teenager that overtook Screensport ... Sad but true.. Amazing logo and idents for sure!
Thanks for this, must've been exciting at the time for those with access to see what was on offer from Screensport. Really nice identity too. Sounds like the Spanish Footie highlights though gets a bit of a raw deal in this excerpt lol.
Used to watch Sportnet when on holiday in Holland. It was carried along with Eurosport so there was a great choice of viewing for this motorsport 13-year-old
It was the UK's and Europe's favourite free to air sports channel. Pre Astra in the earlier days of satellite transmission, it used a crude basic encryption along with Lifestyle, and if you connected a video copy box between the satellite receiver VCR and television, it would strip it out, and you would get a stable sharp distortion free picture. I noticed they always switched the encryption on at closedown and you'd see the picture go fuzzy with a slight video instability.
As you may have already seen on some of my earlier uploads, it wasn't very slick when it first started out, about 1985. I don't know if it was scrambled back then, (as it was mainly on cable IIRC) as there were only the huge satellite dishes about.
Sid N Screensport was beamed via satellite to cable head ends across Europe and the United Kingdom but it was never encoded in its early years, as long as you had a 1.8m motorised satellite dish system in the UK you could get it freely. Before WHSTV got hold of it, they applied a mild video encryption which caused the flag waving effect across the top third of the screen causing the top half of the picture to bend to the left (like the flag waving you got on some TV sets when you connected up a VHS video recorder to an older colour television on aerial socket). After WHSTV got hold of it, they also did apply the encryption for a short period, but it only mildly disturbed the video signal not totally affecting it. As long as you used a a video copying box between the satellite receiver AV output (many used the yellow video plug and stereo white red output) and the VCR this would strip out the encryption, insert new stable sync pulses and produce a sharp stable recording, and if you had a linear stereo or VHS hifi stereo VCR you could also record music and entertainment channels in stereo if you tuned your receiver to the stereo 7.02 / 7.20 MHz pair (on channels that transmitted Wegener 🐼 1 stereo sound) and stored this setting on your receiver. Those satellite receivers equipped with Wegener 🐼 1 noise reduction generally gave the best sound quality on 7.02 / 7.20 MHz.
I Remember ScreenSport Watching on The Astra 1A Satellite Free-To-Air From 1St May 1990 on Air Until 0100 HRS Daily Weekend's Friday From 0700 HRS Until Sunday Night 0100 HRS Final Closedown on 1st March 1993 Still Missed the Channel Also the Music.
@@ianbennett66It originally started off with Lifestyle and Screensport sharing Astra transponder 1 11.214 GHz Horizontal PAL clear at first, Lifestyle 9am-3pm UK 10am-4pm CET then Screensport 3pm-12 midnight UK 4pm-1am CET, then Lifestyle moved to Astra transponder 5 @11.273 Ghz Horizontal PAL clear from 10am-16.00pm UK / 11am-17.00pm CET. When The Children's Channel and JSTV (Japan Satellite Television) moved to Astra 1B Channel 24 11.567 GHz V polarisation, Lifestyle expanded its hours on Astra transponder 5 11.273 GHz H polarisation to 9am UK - 16.00pm UK (10am - 17.00pm CET). Europe is +1 hour ahead of the UK.
The "Update" music sounds so good. I miss Screensport, wish it was still around, the look the channel had was so ahead of its time.
I soo miss this channel. Eurosport was just a child,... that became a teenager that overtook Screensport ... Sad but true.. Amazing logo and idents for sure!
Screensport was a joint-venture between WHSmith and Capital Cities/ABC.
Thanks for this, must've been exciting at the time for those with access to see what was on offer from Screensport. Really nice identity too. Sounds like the Spanish Footie highlights though gets a bit of a raw deal in this excerpt lol.
I am sure they did show El Classico live too
Used to watch Sportnet when on holiday in Holland. It was carried along with Eurosport so there was a great choice of viewing for this motorsport 13-year-old
I like the theme sooo much. And the different versions of it, the calm one or the full...
The slow version sends you off to sleep, nice and relaxed. Cheers.
It was the UK's and Europe's favourite free to air sports channel. Pre Astra in the earlier days of satellite transmission, it used a crude basic encryption along with Lifestyle, and if you connected a video copy box between the satellite receiver VCR and television, it would strip it out, and you would get a stable sharp distortion free picture. I noticed they always switched the encryption on at closedown and you'd see the picture go fuzzy with a slight video instability.
As you may have already seen on some of my earlier uploads, it wasn't very slick when it first started out, about 1985. I don't know if it was scrambled back then, (as it was mainly on cable IIRC) as there were only the huge satellite dishes about.
Sid N Screensport was beamed via satellite to cable head ends across Europe and the United Kingdom but it was never encoded in its early years, as long as you had a 1.8m motorised satellite dish system in the UK you could get it freely.
Before WHSTV got hold of it, they applied a mild video encryption which caused the flag waving effect across the top third of the screen causing the top half of the picture to bend to the left (like the flag waving you got on some TV sets when you connected up a VHS video recorder to an older colour television on aerial socket).
After WHSTV got hold of it, they also did apply the encryption for a short period, but it only mildly disturbed the video signal not totally affecting it.
As long as you used a a video copying box between the satellite receiver AV output (many used the yellow video plug and stereo white red output) and the VCR this would strip out the encryption, insert new stable sync pulses and produce a sharp stable recording, and if you had a linear stereo or VHS hifi stereo VCR you could also record music and entertainment channels in stereo if you tuned your receiver to the stereo 7.02 / 7.20 MHz pair (on channels that transmitted Wegener 🐼 1 stereo sound) and stored this setting on your receiver. Those satellite receivers equipped with Wegener 🐼 1 noise reduction generally gave the best sound quality on 7.02 / 7.20 MHz.
Anthony, Thanks for the info. Interesting.
I Remember ScreenSport Watching on The Astra 1A Satellite Free-To-Air From 1St May 1990 on Air Until 0100 HRS Daily Weekend's Friday From 0700 HRS Until Sunday Night 0100 HRS Final Closedown on 1st March 1993 Still Missed the Channel Also the Music.
@@ianbennett66It originally started off with Lifestyle and Screensport sharing Astra transponder 1 11.214 GHz Horizontal PAL clear at first, Lifestyle 9am-3pm UK 10am-4pm CET then Screensport 3pm-12 midnight UK 4pm-1am CET, then Lifestyle moved to Astra transponder 5 @11.273 Ghz Horizontal PAL clear from 10am-16.00pm UK / 11am-17.00pm CET. When The Children's Channel and JSTV (Japan Satellite Television) moved to Astra 1B Channel 24 11.567 GHz V polarisation, Lifestyle expanded its hours on Astra transponder 5 11.273 GHz H polarisation to 9am UK - 16.00pm UK (10am - 17.00pm CET). Europe is +1 hour ahead of the UK.