The Movie Channel (UK)

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The Movie Channel
Launched	25 March 1990
Closed	share= 100%
Owned by	BSB (Later BSkyB)
Availability At time of closure
Satellite
Analogue	Marcopolo 1, 12.0919
Cable
	Available on some services

The Movie Channel was a predecessor of some of the Sky Movies channels, launched on BSB in 1989, survived merger with Sky in 1990, rebranded as Sky Movies Screen 2 in 1997, then Sky Moviemax in 1998, at a time when Sky wanted all its channels to have their own unique look and ident, Sky Movies Max, Sky Movies 2 and currently Sky Movies Premiere +1.

[edit] Logos

Logo during the BSB era, 1990	Logo after Sky merger	'93 logo	'95 logo ("tombstone" corporate ident)
'96 tombstone verison	Logo after rebrand to "Sky Movies Screen 2"	Logo after rebrand to "Sky Moviemax"	Current logo, 2007-

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