The Power Station (TV channel)


The Power Station was a British television channel that was operated by British Satellite Broadcasting. It was a dedicated music channel.

Programmes

Power Up was the Power Station's Breakfast Show, hosted by Chris Evans.
Other main shows included The Carmen Ejogo Video Show, The Power Chart with Pat Sharp, Sushi TV and Jonathan Coleman's Swing Shift .
The channel also featured Boy George's weekly chat show Blue Radio, The Power Club, The Power Hour, Krush Rap, Rage, The Chart of Charts, and Power Haus. Speakeasy featured jazz with rock music a feature of Raw Power.
Live concerts came from artists including the Inspiral Carpets, Belinda Carlisle, Jason Donovan, Jerry Lee Lewis and Phil Collins.

BSB/Sky merger

In November 1990, British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television merged. BSB's Galaxy and Now channels were closed, but at first the Power Station survived, gaining a "British Sky Broadcasting" suffix on its logo.
However, The Power Station ceased broadcasting at 4am on 8 April 1991 as it was decided that MTV would be used as the music channel on BSkyB's Astra satellite service. At 03:56 "All Together Now" by the Farm was the last music video to be played, and they asking for move to Sky Movies. Two hours later, at 05:59, channel 4 for BSB viewers became Sky Movies, a subscription movie channel. It was given free to BSB viewers for one month if they also subscribed to the Movie Channel.