April 26, 1982 (Norway and Finland) October 16, 1983 (United Kingdom)
Sky One had its origins as Satellite Television, a pan-European television channel originating in London. It was launched on April 26, 1982 and was initially only available to 70,000 homes in Norway and Finland. It was later launched in the United Kingdom on October 16, 1983.
Sky Channel[]
1984–1989[]
Designer:
Rick Zettner & Associates (animation)
Typography:
Unknown
Launched:
January 16, 1984
In 1983, Rupert Murdoch bought the company and decided to rename the station to Sky Channel on January 16, 1984. The slogan was originally "Reaching out to you", until circa October 1987, when the slogan was changed to "Europe's number 1".
February–July 1989[]
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In February 1989, Murdoch started a big push for direct broadcast satellite which involved launching four channels on Astra satellite, which could be easily received with domestic satellite dishes. Sky Channel was one of those channels, with the others including Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport. This logo was short-lived.
February–May 1989[]
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May–July 1989[]
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Sky One (first era)[]
1989–1990[]
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On July 30, just a few months after its launch on Astra, Sky Channel changed its name Sky One. From this point onward, the channel began to only broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1990–1993[]
Designer:
Harry Marks Dale Herigstad
Typography:
Unknown
Launched:
1990
In 1990, the script "One" was retired in favor of the sans-serif "One". However, during November of that same year, Sky TV merged with BSB to form British Sky Broadcasting. Following this, all of Sky's network idents were surrounded by a black border/background, and under the idents came the name British Sky Broadcasting.
After the launch of Sky Multichannels, all of the Sky channels were rebranded on September 1, 1993. Just like RTL's October 1992 set of graphics, which was introduced a year earlier, Novocom, a design agency based in Los Angeles, was behind Sky One's new set of graphics, and both Frank Gari and Danny Baker at Gari Media Group were behind both the music score and sound effects. Starting with the Sky Multichannels era of Sky One, the channel began airing for 24 hours.
With the launch of Sky 2 on September 1, 1996, Sky One briefly rebranded itself as Sky 1. After Sky 2 ended its broadcast on August 31, 1997, Sky 1 used the tombstone look for two more months until its final appearance on October 31 of that year.
Sky One (second era)[]
1997–1998[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Univers Extended (customized)
Launched:
November 1, 1997
Sky 1 reverted back to its previous name on November 1, 1997 and adapted a new logo commonly called the "egg". Many fans consider this to be Sky One's worst logo. It was presumably not liked by Sky themselves either, as the look only stayed for just under seven months.
A new look for Sky One was launched on May 31, 1998. With this look, Sky departed from the pattern from the last years where the entire company would rebrand at the same time with a similar look. Instead, Sky One departed to create its own identity. Only a matter of months after this logo was introduced, Sky Digital was launched. This logo was also used to celebrate 10 years of Sky One.
On January 7, 2002, Sky One launched its new logo along with a new set of graphics. Sky One again gained a sister channel, Sky One Mix, which was intended as a "catch-up" channel, airing re-runs of the channel's key programs later in the same week. Only a matter of months before this logo was introduced, Sky's analog services were shut down with the closure of Sky Sports 2's own analog service.
On September 21, 2004, to coincide with its new schedule for the Fall of that year, Sky One's new logo was launched, designed by Kaktus Film. Sky Mix (formerly called Sky One Mix) also changed its name from Sky Mix to Sky Two for one year later. Two years later, in 2006, its HD simulcast, Sky One HD, was launched.
In February 2008, when new graphics occured, this logo only remained until a revamp in August of the same year.
Sky1[]
2008–2011[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Unknown
Launched:
August 31, 2008
Sky One, in domestic partnership with Sky Two and Sky Three, changed their names to Sky1, Sky2, and Sky3, respectively, right at the end of the Summer of 2008, on August 31 of that year, and with this, a new logo was launched as well. Sky1 used blue solids for their idents.
Sky 1 (second era)[]
2011–2017[]
2011–2015[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Sky Text (logo)
Launched:
February 1, 2011
Sky1 separated the "Sky" and "1" slightly and thus the channel was renamed Sky 1 on February 1, 2011. On January 1, 2014, Sky 1 was temporarily renamed Sky Onesie to encourage viewers to snuggle up in front of the television wearing onesies, in a bid to recover from the previous night's celebrations.
In September 2015, Sky 1 altered their logo slightly after new idents for the channel were introduced, and along with it came new idents for the whole channels on April 19, 2016 following a rebrand.
Sky One (third era)[]
2017–2020[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Sky Text (logo) Sky Medium (one)
Launched:
October 9, 2017
In 2017, Sky rebranded all their channels and brands to be in lowercase.
2020–2021[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Sky Text (logo) Sky Medium (one)
Launched:
April 7, 2020
On April 7, 2020, a slight modification to all Sky entertainment channel logos, including Sky One, was made, consisting of the "Sky" part of the logo not having a white box around it, in the style of the Sky Comedy logo introduced two months prior. In Sky One's case, the blue has gotten brighter.
On September 1, 2021, Sky One was replaced by Sky Showcase (channel itself) and Sky Max (programming),[1] in ending the era of the numbered Sky channels after Sky Two was renamed Sky Replay in 2020 and Sky Three was renamed Pick TV (and Pick thereafter, now Sky Mix (not to be confused for the original name of Sky Mix) in 2011.
