Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting
A real-life Greek tragedy played out at the dawn of satellite broadcasting.
Season 1
1. Squaring the Circle
0.0Jul 15, 2016 · 20 minWhat satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.
2. The Square-Off
0.0Jul 22, 2016 · 18 minThe arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.
3. Hollywood Squares
0.0Jul 29, 2016 · 21 minHow motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.
4. Square Eyes
0.0Aug 5, 2016 · 19 minThe plan to get BSB off the ground before the nineties starts to fall apart, as fights break out over programming and the technology fails to arrive.
5. Out of Square
0.0Aug 12, 2016 · 21 minAfter failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!
6. It's A Square World
0.0Aug 19, 2016 · 21 minBSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.
7. Squared Away
0.0Aug 26, 2016 · 25 minBSB and Sky teeter on the brink of collapse. They can only survive by joining forces or fighting to the death. Somehow they end up with both.