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Sky Travel was a channel operated by
Sky Group Sky Group Limited is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate owned by Comcast and headquartered in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe's largest media co ...
broadcasting travel and reality television programming.


History

Sky Travel launched as a weekday channel on 3 October 1994, as part of the Sky Multichannels package.It originally broadcast between Monday and Thursday between midday and midnight and on Friday between 12pm and 6pm until September 1997. In 2001, the channel started broadcasting 7 days a week from 6am until 11pm. Sky Travel launched with Freeview on 30 October 2002, along with
Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel, live stream news network and news organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of ...
and Sky Sports News and the programming strategy for the channel was changed to attract a wider audience, skewing towards entertainment programmes with a travel theme, particularly reality shows. In January 2005, a timeshifted version of Sky Travel was launched. In October 2005, Sky Travel on Freeview was replaced by Sky Three and on 6 March 2006, the Sky Travel channels were moved from the "Entertainment" section on the Sky EPG, to the "Lifestyle and Culture" section, ahead of the channel moving to a schedule filled with reality TV programming with a spin-off channel, whilst Sky Travel Extra, dedicated its airtime to documentaries In February 2003, a spin-off of the channels, Sky Travel Shop, launched a dedicated travel retail channel and this reverted back to Sky Travel when
Sky Real Lives Sky Real Lives was an in-house channel from British Sky Broadcasting that showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies and documentaries. The channels closed on 19 August 2010. History Sky Real Lives first launched as S ...
launched. In 2009, Sky Travel changed its logo slightly. The channel closed on 24 June 2010.


Closure

On 24 May 2010, British Sky Broadcasting announced that they would close Sky Travel and the associated website on 24 June due to intense competition from the internet. A Sky spokesman said, "It was a difficult decision as the team has delivered a great product but the internet, rather than linear TV, has become the main channel for holiday retailing. In a competitive market, we will continue to focus on our core strategy of doing fewer things but better." Sky Travel closed at 11pm on 24 June 2010.


See also

* Blue Monday
Best Flight Deals


References


External links


Sky Travel
at sky.com (archived)
Sky Travel at TV Ark
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