''Cybernet'' (also known as Interactive) was a weekly

video gaming Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syst ...

magazine programme, originally broadcast overnight on the

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network in the United Kingdom. The programme was commissioned by ''Yorkshire Television'' and produced by ''Capricorn Programmes'' (who also produced the similar '' Movies, Games and Videos'') and also aired on

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in Gibraltar and

Channel M Channel M was a regional television station in England which broadcast to the Greater Manchester area between 2000 and 2012. The station, originally Manchester Student Television, was owned and operated by the GMG Regional Media division of G ...

in Manchester in its early years. It was also broadcast on various television stations all around the world. The programme featured reviews, previews, tips and reports on video gaming and computer technology. It began airing on the former children's satellite and cable network

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(who also aired various television series based on video games and television series related to video games such as the ''

Earthworm Jim ''Earthworm Jim'' is a series of platform games featuring an earthworm named Jim who wears a robotic suit and battles the forces of evil. The series is noted for its platforming and shooting gameplay, surreal humor, and edgy art style. Four game ...

'', ''

Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 Platformer, platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is the successor to the 1983 arcade game ''Mario Bros.'' and the first game in the ''Super Mario'' series. It was origi ...

'' and ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battle ...

'' cartoons) in 1995, before airing on

on terrestrial television.

Broadcasting

Besides

and

(in the United Kingdom), ''Cybernet'' was broadcast all over the world, including: * 4 Channel+ТНТ (07.09.1996-15.02.1997)(Russia, Ekaterinburg) *

MAD TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Salzman, Fax Bahr, and Adam Small. Loosely based on the humor magazine '' Mad'', ''Mad TVs pre-taped satirical sketches were primarily parodie ...

(Greece) *

Multishow Multishow is an entertainment channel owned by Canais Globo, Grupo Globo's cable and satellite television channel operator. It was launched in 1991, as one of the company's first four channels (with Telecine, Top Sport – now SporTV – and GNT ...

(Brazil) * OnceTV (Mexico) * Cablín (Argentina) * Canal 13 (Chile) *

ZAZ ZAZ or Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant (, ''Zaporiz'kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod'' or ''Zaporiz'kyi avtozavod'') is the main automobile manufacturer of Ukraine, based in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia. It also produces buses and t ...

(Latin America) *

TG4 TG4 (; , ) is an Irish free-to-air public service television channel. It launched on 31 October 1996 and is available online and through its on-demand service TG4 Player in Ireland and beyond. TG4 was initially known as (TnaG), before bein ...

(Ireland) *

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(The Czech Republic) * Arutz Shesh (Israel) * Premiere 12 and

Mediacorp Channel 5 Channel 5 is an English-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by the state-owned media conglomerate Mediacorp. It airs a generalist format including domestic and imported entertainment programming, news, and s ...

(Singapore) *

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(Estonia) * TV6 (Lithuania)http://www.anonsas.lt/portal/categories/143/1/0/1/article/8946/tango-tv-programa-2007-dot-12-dot-31-2008-dot-01-dot-06 * NS+ (Yugoslavia) *

2M TV 2M is a Moroccan free-to-air television network. It was established by the royal-owned conglomerate, ONA, before being sold to, in part, the Moroccan government. Of 2M, 45.3% is owned by Bank of Africa, while approximately 32.5% by the Moro ...

(Morocco) *

CNBC-e CNBC-e is a Turkish free-to-air television channel operated in Turkey by NBCUniversal, Comcast and İlbak Holding since June 10, 2024. Formerly, the channel with the same name was operated by NBCUniversal and the Doğuş Media Group between 20 ...

(Turkey) * Fox Kids (Australia) *

Fun Channel Fun Channel is a Bahraini television channel owned by the Orbit Network. Fun Channel contains cartoons for children from early morning to evening such as '' The Why Why Family'' and '' Dennis the Menace''. From late night to early morning, it co ...

, a defunct children's cable channel (Middle East) * Channel 33 (United Arab Emirates) * TV2 and

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(Malaysia) * IBC 3 and

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(

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) *

ATV Home ATV Home () was a free-to-air Cantonese television channel in Hong Kong, owned and operated by Asia Television. It was formed in September 1963 as a result of the split of the bilingual Rediffusion Television subscription service (which was pri ...

and

ATV World ATV World, was one of two free-to-air Hong Kong English, English language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival TVB Pearl. Its sister station, ATV Home, broadcast in the Hong Kong Cantonese, Cantonese language. It ...

(

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

) * Bahrain TV Channel 55 (

Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...

) *

Bop TV Bop TV was a television station owned by the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation, which operated from 1983 to 2003. Initially a part of the black homeland of Bophuthatswana, the channel found its foothold by means of signal overspill, becomin ...

and

SABC2 SABC 2 is a South African free-to-air television channel owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The channel was createdin its current form on 4 February 1996, due to the restructuring of the three national SABC networks. As ...

(South Africa) * RTB (Brunei) * SkjárEinn (Iceland) *

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(Portugal) * Chinese Television Network (Taiwan) *

KTV2 Kuwait television channel 2 (KTV2) is Kuwait's governmental television channel dedicated for the English-speaking public. The channel broadcasts English-speaking shows, local programmes, news, English-subtitled local serials, English-speaking ...

(Kuwait)

Voice-overs

During its thirteen-year run, ''Cybernet'' was presented out-of-vision by a number of voiceover artists: * Steve Priestly (1996, 1998) *Lucy Longhurst (1994–2002) *Steve Truitt (2002–2004) *Catherine Fox (2004–2008)

References

External links

Cybernet titles
* 1995 British television series debuts 2008 British television series endings British non-fiction television series ITV (TV network) original programming Television series by Yorkshire Television Television shows about video games Video game culture {{animation-tv-prog-stub