The Power Station (TV channel)

The Power Station was a British television channel that was operated by British Satellite Broadcasting. It was a dedicated music channel.

History

Power Up was the Power Station's breakfast show, hosted by Chris Evans.
Other main shows that include The Power Hour, The Carmen Ejogo Video Show, The Power Chart with Pat Sharp, Sushi TV and Jonathan Coleman's Swing Shift.
The channel also featured Boy George's weekly chat show Blue Radio, The Power Club, The Power Hour, Krush Rap, Rage, The Chart of Charts, and Power Haus. Speakeasy featured jazz with rock music a feature of Raw Power.
Live concerts came from artists including the Inspiral Carpets, Belinda Carlisle, Jason Donovan, Jerry Lee Lewis and Phil Collins.

On 2 November 1990, British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television merged, as well as Galaxy and Now channels being closed, but at first the Power Station survived, gaining a "British Sky Broadcasting" suffix on its logo.
The Power Station eventually ceased broadcasting at around 4.00am on 8 April 1991, with the final programme on the channel being an episode of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, which was aired during Swing Shift. At 6.00am, channel 5 for BSB viewers became Sky Movies, a subscription-based channel and it was given free to BSB viewers for one month if they also subscribed to The Movie Channel.