Shortlived TV channels

[Love 90s]

As TV Live Forum is closing, can anyone think of the channels that just over the year or less. One example would be Whereits.at.

[telebox2001]

Nuts TV with future Radio 2 man OJ Borg

[Roger Darthwell]

Granada Talk TV is another one, it lasted less than a year but it launched the careers of both Natasha Kaplinsky and Sacha Baron Cohen

[radiorebel]

Merit the ITV offshoot which was clearly just EPG squatting.

[TVNerd]

Nuts TV with future Radio 2 man OJ Borg

Is it true that it used the “Interactive” card slot on Sky Boxes of the era for a loyalty scheme?

[JHarper_2021]

CNX, it lasted less than a year before it was replaced by Toonami from October 2002 to September 2003. At the time CNX was the exclusive home of early Adult Swim programs, as well as anime, martial arts films, extreme sports.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlMz8R8myVc

[LI4M]

Merit the ITV offshoot which was clearly just EPG squatting.

Actually, were there any (other) uses for that slot?
Just occurred to me that I don't know of any services that made use of it!

[Worzel]

The Business Channel.

[eggsontoast]

There was The Money Channel in the 90's that came from a new studio setup Wapping way - didn't last long...  A bit like the Simply... family of channels. Simply Money, Simply Shopping etc. 
There was also Boots Wellbeing channel that was quite ambitious in live programming all day from Yorkshire TV, maybe lasted 8 weeks?

[Kojak]

There was The Money Channel in the 90's that came from a new studio setup Wapping way - didn't last long...  A bit like the Simply... family of channels. Simply Money, Simply Shopping etc. 

Which was backed by, of all people, 60s pop star Adam Faith! (Who, later in life, had a second career as a financial journalist and adviser, so it's not as bizarre as it sounds that he backed such a channel.)

[Rex]

Merit the ITV offshoot which was clearly just EPG squatting.

Actually, were there any (other) uses for that slot?
Just occurred to me that I don't know of any services that made use of it!

Sky bought it to ensure that it could free up channel 11 for Sky Arts whilst moving Pick to that specific position on channel 34.

[LTSC1980]

BSB 5 Channel TV, they don’t last long before Sky merger, especially Galaxy and Now Channel, both are closed after the merger and channel was replaced by Sky One and Sky News/Arts respectively.
https://youtu.be/174ySpE7TzU
https://youtu.be/zfOEx_3Hm8k
https://youtu.be/UO_PWFg4JIk

[W. Knight]

Cable Music Channel. Deemed a hopeful opponent to MTV probably only by Ted Turner himself, the channel ultimately closed down just 5 weeks after their launch (26/10-30/11/1984). Very inspiring name, certainly on par to its sister Cable News Network.

https://youtu.be/Yj1lUfCN0BE

[NancerOnTheLIVEForum]

Not a TV channel, but CNN+, which lasted a measly 30 days before getting canned.

[Larry the Loafer]

Nuts TV with future Radio 2 man OJ Borg

Is it true that it used the “Interactive” card slot on Sky Boxes of the era for a loyalty scheme?

IIRC the idea was ever fully realised. It was a gift for Multiroom subscribers who could just leave their extra box tuned in to Nuts TV all day long. No idea if the rewards would've been actually worth the effort though.

In fact, wasn't it going to be the one and only use of that infamous slot before that finally got rid of it with Sky Q?