Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema began life as Sky Movies – a single film channel offered as part of Sky’s original 4-channel package on the Astra 1A satellite on 5 February 1989. During 1991, Sky Movies started broadcasting for 24 hours per day. For a while in the early 1990s, the channel carried various non-film premium content such as live boxing, music concerts and WWF wrestling. In 2016 it was rebranded as Sky Cinema along with all variation channels (Sky Cinema Action, Sky Cinema Comedy etc).