Sky 2

:"This article discusses the defunct Sky 2 channel. For the current channel with a very similar name, see Sky2"

Infobox TV channel
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name=Sky 2
logosize=175px
logofile=Sky 2 Ident 96.jpg
logoalt=Sky 2's ident
launch= 1 September 1996
closed date=31 August 1997
share= n/a
share as of= Channel
share source= closed
owner= BSkyB
sister names=Sky 1
availability note=
At time of closure
terr avail=Not Available
sat serv 1=Analogue
sat chan 1=Astra 1E, 11.303H
cable avail=Not Available

Sky 2 was a television channel from British Sky Broadcasting launched in 1996 as a sister channel to Sky One, as part of a new bouquet of Sky channels including The Computer Channel and Sky Scottish. For an opening night it held an "X-Files" theme night. While the channel was still being broadcast, Sky One was branded as "Sky 1". Unlike the later Sky One spin-off, Sky One Mix, the channel showed exclusive first-run television shows rather than the same programming as its parent. Prominent shows on its schedule included , Profit, Tekwar and Sea Rescue.

Sky used the launch of the channel and the rebrand of Sky 1 to introduce Digital On-screen Graphics, on both channels.

While at some points the channel reached viewing figures nearly equal to that of its sister channel (such as for the initial episode of Xena), it was never very successful and ceased broadcasting just one year later in 1997. Most exclusive programming from Sky 2 transferred to Sky 1, which was rebranded as Sky One again.

In 2002, Sky One Mix, a new sister channel to Sky One was launched; it was later rebranded as "Sky Mix" and then "Sky Two" to coincide with the launch of a second sister channel, Sky Three on 31 October 2005. It rebranded back to Sky2 in August 2008.

ee also

*List of British television channels