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Bravo was a British television channel, owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB. Its target audience was males in their 20s to early 40s and it showed a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider and MacGyver) and original productions.
The Bravo channel closed on 1 January 2011, its most popular programmes moved to other Sky channels including: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (now on Sky1), Chuck, Leverage (now on Fox), Dog the Bounty Hunter (now on Pick), Star Trek (now on CBS Action), TNA Wrestling (now on Challenge), Sun, Sea and A&E, Motorway Patrol, Highway Patrol, Brit Cops and Caribbean Cops (now on Pick and Sky Livingit).
Bravo was launched on December 31, 1985, as a cable only channel, created by United Artists Programming and broadcasting mainly black & white B-movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Initially, the channel was a cassette-delivered service delivered to cable headends for automatic play-out.
In 1991, United Artists merged with their largest shareholder TCI (now Liberty Media), to form the largest cable operator in the US. TCI and US West announced a joint venture, and in 1992, the joint venture company became Telewest Communications. In 1993, talks were held with Tele-Communications Inc. which resulted in Flextech acquiring TCI's European programming business in exchange for shares. By January, the deal was complete with TCI, which allowed TCI to acquire 60.4% of Flextech while Flextech acquired 100% of Bravo, 25% of UK Gold, 31% of UK Living, and 25% of the Children's Channel which increased its share in that channel.
Bravo may refer to:
Bravo (styled bravo) is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Bell Media. Bravo maintains an entertainment format, with a particular focus on television dramas and films.
The channel was founded as a Canadian version of the U.S. channel Bravo (which is now owned by NBCUniversal). However, the channels have since diverged from a focus on the arts; Bravo in the U.S. was relaunched with an emphasis on fashion and pop culture programming in 2003, while Bravo in Canada began to add more dramatic series to its lineup beginning in 2006. Aside from still airing programming such as Inside the Actors Studio, a 2012 rebranding effectively separated the Canadian Bravo from its American counterpart.
In the 1980s, a precursor to Bravo existed called C Channel. The service was a national commercial-free pay television channel that focused on arts programming. C Channel launched on February 1, 1983 before it went bankrupt and ceased operations five months later on June 30 of that year due to its inability to attract a sufficient number of subscribers at a price of $16 per month.
Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" („Die Zeitschrift für Film und Fernsehen“). Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley.
The founder of Bravo was columnist Peter Boenisch. The first issue was published on 26 August 1956 with thirty thousand copies printed, cost 50 Pfennig (equivalent to €1.12 in 2016). Issue number 13/57 was released on 31 March 1957 with the new subtitle "the magazine with the young heart" („Die Zeitschrift mit dem jungen Herzen“) as well as "film, television, pop music" („Film, Fernsehen, Schlager“) which disappeared soon afterwards. Starting from issue 34/57 (13 August 1957) the magazine no longer had any subtitles underscoring its newfound focus.
In 1968 Bravo began to be published weekly by Pabel Moewig, a subsidiary of Bauer Verlagsgruppe in Hamburg; the editorial office however remained in Munich.
This Video shows The Bravo Perspex Logo I Own Its 17 Inch Wide it's ONE OF A KIND It Was Made For Bravo In The Late 2000s For The Bravo Office
It was the 3rd February 1997. Bravo decided to drift away from the "timewarp" era they had previously into something...more different, and rather odd. Advertised as "an altered species of television", Bravo's programming changed from old B&W; programmes and dramas into more adult oriented shows and horror films. This era is well-known on the internet for its surreal idents, some including a goldfish being blended, a lady licking through a cheese grater, and a man in a mental asylum. 0:00 Main ident 0:12 Launch promos 1:24 Idents 4:27 Variants 6:00 Later idents 6:24 Disclaimers 7:32 Bravo's Backroom Riddle 7:56 War Night The videos in this compilation belong to TVARK, Steve_G, junk_vhs_tapes_pal, James Davies, Stormyblue, Andres Bravo (no pun intended), The Wayback Machine on Bravo's web...
Bravo UK TV channel intro/warning for sex, violence and swearing. Circa February 1998. In this case, movie is The Boys Next Door
Since some new bumpers from Bravo adverts started to surfaced, I thought I might collect and showcase them, showing just bumpers for people interested in idents. This marks the transition from vintage movie to sci-fi and horror movie channel. Personal Note: I do not have an account for CLG Wiki and I do not plan to make one. I just upload logos and they occasionally get featured. Just saying - I'm not associated with them. Just heard that the CLG Wiki is getting a rebrand due to five of the admins' questionable antics. Dare I say, good riddance. It was a fun ride, but my god, I wish they act a little bit professional. (I even saw a logo that, too long; didn't read, belong to a revenge (child) porn site. I'm dead fucking serious, and I wish I never saw it.) ...
BRAVO UK - Closed 01-01-2011 - Adverts Mix - Living TV Group, Virgin Media, BSkyB (Bravo: 1985-2011) @ King Of TV Sat Team - 01/2011
Bravo was a British television channel, owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB. Its target audience was males in their 20s to early 40s and it showed a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider and MacGyver) and original productions.
The Bravo channel closed on 1 January 2011, its most popular programmes moved to other Sky channels including: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (now on Sky1), Chuck, Leverage (now on Fox), Dog the Bounty Hunter (now on Pick), Star Trek (now on CBS Action), TNA Wrestling (now on Challenge), Sun, Sea and A&E, Motorway Patrol, Highway Patrol, Brit Cops and Caribbean Cops (now on Pick and Sky Livingit).
Bravo was launched on December 31, 1985, as a cable only channel, created by United Artists Programming and broadcasting mainly black & white B-movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Initially, the channel was a cassette-delivered service delivered to cable headends for automatic play-out.
In 1991, United Artists merged with their largest shareholder TCI (now Liberty Media), to form the largest cable operator in the US. TCI and US West announced a joint venture, and in 1992, the joint venture company became Telewest Communications. In 1993, talks were held with Tele-Communications Inc. which resulted in Flextech acquiring TCI's European programming business in exchange for shares. By January, the deal was complete with TCI, which allowed TCI to acquire 60.4% of Flextech while Flextech acquired 100% of Bravo, 25% of UK Gold, 31% of UK Living, and 25% of the Children's Channel which increased its share in that channel.
Vamos celebrar a estupidez humana
A estupidez de todas as nações
O meu país e sua corja de assassinos
Covardes, estupradores e ladrões
Vamos celebrar a estupidez do povo
Nossa polícia e televisão
Vamos celebrar nosso governo
E nosso Estado, que não é nação
Celebrar a juventude sem escola
As crianças mortas
Celebrar nossa desunião
Vamos celebrar Eros e Thanatos
Persephone e Hades
Vamos celebrar nossa tristeza
Vamos celebrar nossa vaidade.
Vamos comemorar como idiotas
A cada fevereiro e feriado
Todos os mortos nas estradas
Os mortos por falta de hospitais
Vamos celebrar nossa justiça
A ganância e a difamação
Vamos celebrar os preconceitos
O voto dos analfabetos
Comemorar a água podre
E todos os impostos
Queimadas, mentiras e seqüestros
Nosso castelo de cartas marcadas
O trabalho escravo
Nosso pequeno universo
Toda hipocrisia e toda afetação
Todo roubo e toda a indiferença
Vamos celebrar epidemias:
É a festa da torcida campeã.
Vamos celebrar a fome
Não ter a quem ouvir
Não se ter a quem amar
Vamos alimentar o que é maldade
Vamos machucar um coração
Vamos celebrar nossa bandeira
Nosso passado de absurdos gloriosos
Tudo o que é gratuito e feio
Tudo que é normal
Vamos cantar juntos o Hino Nacional
(A lágrima é verdadeira)
Vamos celebrar nossa saudade
E comemorar a nossa solidão.
Vamos festejar a inveja
A intolerância e a incompreensão
Vamos festejar a violência
E esquecer a nossa gente
Que trabalhou honestamente a vida inteira
E agora não tem mais direito a nada
Vamos celebrar a aberração
De toda a nossa falta de bom senso
Nosso descaso por educação
Vamos celebrar o horror
De tudo isso - com festa, velório e caixão
Está tudo morto e enterrado agora
Já que também podemos celebrar
A estupidez de quem cantou esta canção.
Venha, meu coração está com pressa
Quando a esperança está dispersa
Só a verdade me liberta
Chega de maldade e ilusão.
Venha, o amor tem sempre a porta aberta
E vem chegando a primavera -
Nosso futuro recomeça:
Venha, que o que vem é perfeição.