Sky Two
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- This article discusses the present "Sky Two" channel (formerly "Sky Mix"). For the defunct UK Sky channel of similar name, see Sky 2.
| Sky Two | |
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|---|---|
| Launched | 9th December 2002 |
| Owned by | BSkyB |
| Audience share | 0.4% (August 2006, Source:[1]) |
| Formerly called | Sky One Mix (until September 21, 2004 Sky Mix (until October 31, 2005) |
| Sister channel(s) | Sky One, Sky Three |
| Website | www.sky.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 107 |
| Cable | |
| NTL | Channel 121 |
| NTL Ireland | Channel 115 |
Sky Two (launched and branded as Sky One Mix until September 21, 2004, and subsequently known as Sky Mix until October 31, 2005) is a United Kingdom satellite television channel run by British Sky Broadcasting. A supplementary channel for Sky One, Sky Two shows repeats of programmes aired on that channel, hours or days after their original broadcast, allowing viewers to catch shows they may have missed on first-run. However, unlike other channels - such as LIVINGtv - which operate a +1 timeshift channel, Sky Two has a separate schedule, and has thus been described as a "timeshuffle" channel. The channel is broadcast on Sky Digital and NTL digital cable (but not Telewest).
Sky Two's future strategy will be to show spin-offs from Sky One.
The channel was rebranded in order to coincide with the launch of Sky Three. Sky 2 (launched in 1995) was a rather different channel (also owned by BSkyB), which ran for only a short period of time on the analogue Sky service. Sky 2 closed just after a year because of very low viewing figures.
