User blog:The Testcardiologist/SBS Kaehia: List of line-up changes

1990

 * March 30: Commencement of operations as the first subscription television operator in Anglophone Transalia. SBS broadcast thre channels on UHF 40, 42 and 44 in Hopikua and nationwide by satellite. Channel 40 was SBS Entertainment, channel 42 was SBS Sports and channel 44 was SBS Movies. SBS Entertainment was a 24/7 channel that had 12 hours of news (mostly from CNN International) and a selection of entertainment programs from the United Republics and Hisqaida. SBS Sports mainly aired sporting events that KBC and TV3 hadn't bought, as well as content from ESPN. SBS Movies was also 24/7, initially repeating selected films in an 8-hour schedule. This turned out to be impractical by 1991 due to controversies regarding age ratings, but initial subscription television laws proved otherwise.

1992

 * April 19: SBS signs a deal with HBO Asikai, though PCV-owned MovieVision. The SBS Movies channel is partially renamed HBO during selected slots. SBS was the exclusive distributor of HBO Asikai to Kaehia and Stella Coast, claiming a few thousand subscribers.

1994

 * October 1: Discovery Channel, MTV, CNN and Cartoon Network/TNT added to satellite service. CNN added to UHF 46 in Hopikua. SBS Entertainment now screens Cartoon Network from 6am to 6pm (with minimal changes). The satellite feed repeats the 6pm-12am schedule from 6am onwards. Overnight was mostly softcore pornography (Overnight Soft).

1995

 * March 30: Restructuring of its basic offer. SBS Entertainment becomes SBS1 and adopts a new programming formula. TV One, TV2 and TV3 are added to the satellite offer, after conflicts of interest from the Kaehian Broadcasting Corporation. GRT World, Neurcasia Television International and Asikaish Business News are added as free channels. As part of the reformulation, SBS parts ways with HBO Asikai.
 * June: Talks between GMA, Gritainese rights holders of the upcoming World Cup, as well as SBS, are underway, meaning that a fraction of the matches shown would be exclusive to the SBS Sports channel. The deal would also include ATFC qualifiers not involving Kaehia.
 * July: Kids Avenue debuts on the satellite service of SBS1, mainly showing Hisqish cartoons. The UHF feed is still showing Cartoon Network Asikai between 6am and 6pm.
 * October: News Corporation buys a 20% stake in SBS. At the same time it starts carrying TEN after a non-siphoning rule involving Kaehia and the neighboring countries.

1997

 * March: SBS Sports 2 launches to satellite subscribers.
 * June: Nickelodeon Asikai is added to SBS Satellite.

1998

 * October 1: Launch of SBS's digital service. Bifurcation of the existing SBS Movies channel in two (Premiere and Plus), over a dozen new channels added. SBS announced that it will terminate its analog service by the end of 2000.