Astra Satellite Promo (1990) - Part 1

[MRRetroManiac]

i hope someday find this clip in better quality! is anyone knows this fucking good song plays in 3.34 ?

[OSH0891]

@MRRetroManiac

This is "Transmissions 3" composed by Jim Harbourg

[Cerebralator]

I was 9/10 in the astra days. I used to think satellite tv was so cool. Which it was then.

[Feisty1967]

I'm bored already. Move on..

[doctorwhokris1980]

blimey thames tsw and ulster tv were shareholders

[kraftneu]

@doctorwhokris1980 i knew about Thames, but I'm surprised TSW and UTV were shareholders too!!

[shackles1000]

anologue sky was the best all the channels from around the world plus on theere were so much on there 2 watch

[birdy100]

I used to love the spinning satellite diagrams on these promos.

[Visonu]

The rocket launching at start was the Astra 1A

[FSS2k8]

The world was better and more beautiful and more fun in the 90's.... i miss the good old days :(

[Bloodgod40]

Wow 1990 cgi sure does suck.

[NathanTheOne]

i loved my anologue sky and i still have the dish and box in the shed i might hook it up and see if anything is still broadcasting

[AnthonyUK]

There is little analogue left.

[shackles1000]

anologuse sky was much better then the sky that is now i use 2 love anolgue sky back in the day

[solentferrycam]

Oh thank goodness it wasn't just me who watched this endlessly over and over again when I was about 9 or 10!

i dunno why but it utterly fascinated me and I've wanted to hear that music again ever since!

[woreno]

damm tiri-tiri music! watched again and again by the same age. seemed very scientific and entusiastic by the time, ah sure with a cool music :)

[xpidf1]

On 1st January '89, Astra began it's operations on the lattitude of 19.2 E, whilst in Puerto Rico by 1996, AlphaStar began operating in the U.S. as the island's first satellite TV System before in 1997 dissapeared and EchoStar launches it's own satellite and Dish Network was born. like it is today

[TheFacelessOnes]

Didn't this run on a loop on a channel in different languages depending on the audio channel?

[roxystars88]

yep i think your right and i seem to remember it not talking as much!

[Fiddlesticks311]

I remember cartoon network was on channel 17

good times

[Hoddersrevenge]

I remember CN on Channel 17 from about 1996. I think SS3 was on channel 1, Sky 1 on channel 6 and ITV on Channel8, I think.

[trashmark]

Good old Astra times. I remember, MTV Europe was on channel 15.

[michaelc6012]

our sky system at the time did have only 23 channels

[cutterschoicenotmine]

good video, shame about the piss poor frame rate

[AnthonyUK]

Astra isn't as good now as it used to be;Skydigital seems to dominate 28.2degE and you don't get European channels at 28.2degE as you did at 19degE that's what made Astra interesting viewing, seeing other European countries television.

[ozboss]

4 of the 5 satelites at 28.2 are astra, I think you are getting confused, the satelites belong to astra, sky pay astra to broadcast their programming, the uk moved to its own orbital slot so it could provide more channels

[JackReeve]

was that how u got all those german channels on the original sky b4 digital cause of the astra system?

[AnthonyUK]

Astra owned the satellites,and sky leased the transponders with other european broadcasters.

[RobTheBuilder]

Thanks!

There was a later one which showed the Astra 1d launch on Arianne; thats the one I remember seeing all the time!

[yayek]

anybody knows title and composer of music starts at 1:25 in this video?

[AnthonyUK]

The voiceover is the one and only legendary Radio Luxembourg 208 Mike Hollis!

[Fiddlesticks311]

How I miss this. I remember the logo. I remember Cartoon Network was on channel 17. I remember the satalite dish part

[ProPlating]

Man, I used to watch this over and over when my parents first got analogue SKY tv back in 1990. I thought this video and the music was well cool. It's good to see it again!

[orbitalzones]

Nice video, funnily enough it's the one one I edited on posted on my own site and was put on here!

I'm always looking out for more old analogue satellite clips (europe) - for all my clips check out my site orbitalzone dot come

[mason642]

i remember the clip you mean anonYmous17 i don't have it though i remember the broadcast on channel 30 of astra 1b we used to have that box ourselves.

[AnonYmous17]

hey do you also have footage of astra like from 1993-1995 or so? I remember watching something like this long, LONG ago and they showed the planets and rockets and played some classic piece! Vivaldi or so.

[mattthepie]

Wasn't it prokoviev's romeo and juliet? (Montagues and Capulets)

[Woll80]

I wanna know how many times I've been watching this as a child! Each time I was fascinated. Thank you for posting!

[wrestlingnewsdesk]

remember watvching this on channel 30 i think of astra 1b when it finished it would play all over again in a foreign language.