Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox (original) (raw)

Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox was a British music video request television channel which was owned by the now defunct WHSTV (WHSmith). In 1990, the channel moved to transponder 5 (Lifestyle/The Children's Channel) on the Astra satellite and shared transponder space with sister channel Lifestyle. Its broadcast hours were 10.00pm to 6.00am.LSJB was operated by a team of just 6 people, five of which worked out of a unit in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. The music videos were changed once a month and sourced from LaserDisc that were custom recorded. Five Philips LaserDisc player were used to serve the video requests that came in from an interactive voice response (IVR) system. One Sony S-VHS player was added in the last year or so to serve adverts in between videos. The technology was used in Cable