Introducing The Horror Channel? launches as a free-to-view Sky channel on May 3rd.

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The Horror Channel, the world's first English language television channel dedicated to the dark side of cinema, launches as a free-to-view Sky channel on May 3rd.

Managing Director Tony Hazell explains: ?American horror films will dominate the Horror Channel's schedule but our approach is to show as many rare and unusual titles as possible, rather than attempting to compete with premiere channels by showing modern blockbusters. These will range from Karloff and Lugosi classics in earlier slots to full-on splatter movies after midnight. We want The Horror Channel to appeal to as many horror fans as possible, so we're trying to balance out classic and modern titles fairly evenly.? Amongst the gems lined up so far are Dementia 13, Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, Bloody Birthday, The Incredible Melting Man, Blood Tracks, Evil Ed, The Stepfather, The Devil Bat, The Dark Dealer, Nightmares and Rattlers.

?At the heart of The Horror Channel's programming will be our own horror heritage,? says Hazell. ?The British horror film is almost as old as cinema itself, and our schedule will feature an eclectic mixture of British cinema's blood-drenched output, from the black and white classic The Ghoul, through Hammer Horror masterpieces Frankenstein & The Monster From Hell and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter to underrated obscurities such as Assault, Revenge, Goodbye Gemini and Expose. Fans of classy British horror double act Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (and who isn't?) will not be disappointed as we showcase their finest work, together and individually, in Nothing But The Night, Dr Terror's House of Horrors. City of the Dead, The Uncanny and The Funnyman.? And in August, Cushing devotees can look forward to a special season of the actor's films on the tenth anniversary of his death.

According to Mr. Hazell, Euro-horror fans should be happy too ? there'll be plenty of Bava, Fulci and Argento to keep them happy, as well as some truly obscure titles and these films will be broadcast in the Horror Around the World slot in the early hours.

The Horror Channel is also working with cult video label Salvation to produce a weekly midnight slot featuring the pick of their uniquely provocative crop.

horrorchannel.co.uk/

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Zo zie je maar weer komt er toch weer wat bij.
Krijgen we toch weer keuze erbij.

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Hummaxboy
 
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En met Extreme Sports en Reality tv en al de bbc, en ook een zooi music channels, is dit toch nog wel een leuke FTA pos.
En nu er weer 1 bij.
Gaan we toch nog over op FTA ?? Lol

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Alleen maar popcorn ???

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Haal nog maar een paar zakken popcorn, SKY wil er nog een paar FTA bij doen..!!!


BBC seeks partners for free satellite plan to rival Sky
By Saeed Shah
27 April 2004

The BBC called yesterday for the formation of an alliance of broadcasters to produce a mass-market free satellite system that would rival BSkyB's platform.

The corporation said it wanted to create a "FreeSat" option that would require no subscription to provide a digital free-to-air option for homes that use satellite technology.

The news came as some in the City voiced doubts about Sky's long-term growth prospects. Although many analysts remain bullish about Sky, which now has 7.2 million subscribers, others have suggested that most consumers willing to take pay-television have probably signed up by now.

In a report submitted yesterday to the Government, the BBC said it wanted a satellite system to replicate the runaway success of Freeview, which provides a non-pay digital system to households that take their television signal from a rooftop aerial _ a digital terrestrial option.

The Government has said it will switch off analogue television by 2010, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is believed to have asked the Treasury for ?300m to fund the changeover to digital.

Although Sky has partnered the BBC in the Freeview venture, a full-blown free satellite system would challenge Rupert Murdoch's Sky in its heartland. Sky, which declined to comment yesterday, has spent about ?2bn building its highly successful digital satellite pay-television offering.

FreeSat would serve households that cannot receive a good digital terrestrial signal _ currently about 25 per cent of the country. It may also prove to be a much more attractive proposition for digital viewers than Freeview, as the technical capabilities of satellite are more advanced. Satellite can provide many more channels than the 30 or so available on Freeview and it has superior interactivity available.

FreeSat offers about 100 channels already, such as CNN and The Golf Channel, that are "in the clear" or broadcast unencrypted. The BBC joined these unencrypted channels last summer in a move that provoked a war of words between the corporation and Sky.

Carolyn Fairbairn, the director of strategy and distribution at the BBC, said there was "no reason" for other free-to-air broadcasters, such as ITV, to pay Sky for its encryption services. The corporation called for ITV, Channel 4 and five to join it in pushing a new digital satellite platform where all stations were unencrypted. This would involve the sort of high-profile marketing campaign seen with Freeview, plus co-ordination with manufacturers of the decoder boxes and satellite dishes that would be needed by households to receive the signal.

Ms Fairbairn said: "This [FreeSat] is potentially a tremendously attractive proposition for the viewer."

ITV, Channel 4 and five are not currently "in the clear" and all pay Sky for "conditional access" services to appear on its platform. The ITV contract with Sky, which makes the network's channels available in satellite households, is worth ?17m a year to Sky.

Ms Fairbairn said the BBC saw FreeSat as "complementary" to pay-television. She hoped that the cost of a dish, box and installation could be brought below ?100. "This is for a different segment [of viewers] who are interested in more channels but are not interested in a subscription," she said.

Kingsley Wilson, an analyst at Investec Securities, said the move would be "more an irritant to Sky than something with a serious financial impact at this point". However, he added that if Sky changed its strategy to target lower-paying consumers, "FreeSat may be more of a threat down the road".

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=515640


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Wat lees ik biertje popcorn heren hou de febo hoog he...
 
Weet iemand al iets van de frequentie van het horror kanaal?
Ik heb die gasten een meeltje gestuurd, maar nog niets terug gekregen.
 
misschien saai maar ik neem een colaatje erbij ik lust namelijk geen bier!! ja ja ik weet het het is ongelooflijk maar waar
 
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