Original upload date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:25:09 GMT
From the archives of http://www.transdiffusion.org
ITN announce that a consortium called British Satellite Broadcasting have won the IBA's beauty contest for the three available Direct Broadcasting b
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y Satellite (DBS) channels they have made available. This would be increased to five channels before launch, although BSB were already doomed even before they went on air.
[For the reasons why, it's well worth reading the sympathetic account of BSB's short life in the book Dished!: Rise and Fall of British Satellite Broadcasting - available secondhand at http://www.waterstonesmarketplace.com/booksearch?isbn=9780671711238 and elsewhere]
Here Peter Sissons introduces a report on Channel 4 News, then the late Carol Barnes does the same for ITV's News at Ten. ITN themselves soon fell out with BSB and were never involved in The NOW Channel or any other BSB output.
