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'''Doctor Who''' has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in [[:Category:Europe|Europe]] and [[:Category:South America|South America]] - could view the series on a regular basis (albeit in English).
  
'''Doctor Who''' has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in [[:Category:Europe|Europe]] - could view the series on a regular basis.
 
 
Although '''BroaDWcast''' is primarily an index to the terrestrial broadcasts, it would be remiss not to at least mention (albeit briefly) '''Doctor Who''' on satellite and cable channels.
 
 
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==AUSTRALIA==
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==UNITED KINGDOM==
 
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[[File:BBCCable1993.JPG|right|thumb|500px|"Dr Who" repeats on BBC World Service satellite (at 5.55pm), available in Malta in April 1993]]
'''Doctor Who''' screened on [[Australia]]'s [[wikipedia:Foxtel|FOXTEL]] / UKTV from '''1 August 1996'''.
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on several domestic UK satellite stations, some independent, some owned by the BBC. They each have their own dedicated pages:
 
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*[[BBC Choice]]
Details about those screenings can be read on the dedicated [[Australia]] pages.
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*[[BBC Prime]]
 
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*[[BBC World Service Television Europe]]
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*[[British Satellite Broadcasting]] (BSB)
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*[[Horror Channel]]
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*[[Sci-Fi Channel Europe]]
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*[[Super Channel]]
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*[[UK Gold]]
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*[[UKTV Drama]]
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*[[Watch]]
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==UNITED STATES and CANADA==
 
==UNITED STATES and CANADA==
  
'''Doctor Who''' aired on at least two (known) major cable channels in the US in the 1980s and 1990s:
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on several US cable channels in the 1980s and 1990s, while most of the Canadian broadcasts of the series were on cable:
 
 
* See [[US Cable channels]] for details
 
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And of course most of the Canadian broadcasts of the series were on cable:
 
 
 
* [[Canada]]
 
 
 
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==UK STATIONS==
 
 
 
'''Doctor Who''' aired on two local UK satellite stations:
 
 
 
* '''[[wikipedia:British Satellite Broadcasting|BSB's Galaxy channel]]''' (short-lived run from '''1 April 1990 to 29 December 1990''')
 
* '''[[wikipedia:UK Gold|UK Gold]]''' (15 year run, from '''2 November 1992 to 14 April 2007''')
 
 
 
Since neither station transmitted beyond the shores of the UK, they fall outside the remit of '''BroaDWcast'''.
 
 
 
However, for detail about these stations we recommend the following websites:
 
* '''[http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/skytv/bsb.html BSB]''' – for images of on-screen idents, etc
 
* '''[http://whogold.blogspot.com/2010/07/uk-gold-air-dates-1992-2007.html UK GOLD]''' for the full background plus a '''downloadable''' schedule of all 15 years worth of airdates and screenings
 
 
 
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==UK / EUROPE==
 
===SUPER CHANNEL===
 
 
 
[[File:SuperCh4E.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Super Channel credits for Genesis of the Daleks with Sylvester McCoy title sequence and logo]]
 
[[File:SuperChl4R.JPG |right|thumb|200px|Listing for Robots of Death, 1 September 1988]]   
 
Satellite television station '''[[wikipedia:NBC Europe|Super Channel]] ''' was launched on 30 January 1987, and broadcast across Europe.
 
 
 
 
 
'''TRANSMISSION'''
 
 
 
From '''24 March 1987''', '''Doctor Who''' was part of Super Channel's regular schedule, although they were limited to a 16 story / 66 episode package of just the first fourteen [[Tom Baker stories]] – [[Robot]] to [[The Deadly Assassin]] - plus [[The Robots of Death]] and [[Horror of Fang Rock]], which were repeated a number of times, either episodically or as omnibus editions.
 
 
 
Some of these omnibuses, such as [[Genesis of the Daleks]], had the Sylvester McCoy opening credits with Tom Baker's face superimposed over McCoys, as well as newly-created story title and writer captions, as illustrated here.
 
 
 
The final episode of '''Doctor Who''' to screen on Super Channel was the second airing of part four of [[Horror of Fang Rock]] on '''6 August 1989'''.
 
 
 
In 1989, the channel was purchased by NBC. It was later re-branded as '''NBC Super Channel''' until 1996. The Europe broadcasts ceased from 20 December 1998.
 
 
 
'''Super Channel''' was available in most countries in western Europe. We know for sure that it was accessible in:
 
*[[Spain]]
 
*[[France]]
 
(And no doubt many others….)
 
 
 
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*'''IDENTS''':
 
**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo3JO85w10 SUPER CHANNEL IDENT 1987]
 
**[http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/superchannel.html Gallery of SUPER CHANNEL IDENTS]
 
 
 
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===BBC PRIME===
 
 
 
This station was launched in 1987 as '''[[wikipedia:BBC TV Europe|BBC TV Europe]]'''. It changed its identity to '''[[wikipedia:BBC World Service Television|BBC World Service Television]]''' from 11 March 1991, then to '''[[wikipedia:BBC Prime|BBC Prime]]''' from 26 January 1995. BBC Prime was replaced by '''BBC Entertainment''' from 11 November 2009.
 
[[File:Prime 1993.JPG |right|thumb|250px|Dr Who (Colin Baker) – BBC Prime, 4 April 1993]]
 
The station transmitted via the [http://wn.com/Intelsat_5 IntelSat] satellite, broadcasting on frequency '''601 27.5º west, at 10,995 and 11,155 gigahertz'''.
 
 
 
It was the BBC's first entertainment channel available via satellite and cable across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, broadcasting 24 hours a day.
 
 
 
BBC Prime aired a selection of BBC as well as ITV programming.
 
 
 
  
'''TRANSMISSION'''
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* See our dedicated '''[[:Category:US cable stations|US Cable stations]]'''.
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* See our dedicated '''[[Canada]]''' pages.
  
We are not sure when '''Doctor Who''' started on this station.
 
For a time episodes aired twice on Saturdays, with the following episode later the same day – e.g. an episode would air at 1.05am, then repeated at 10.00am, with the next episode on at 5.30pm the same day. Sometimes, the early morning episodes were not available in Africa.
 
 
*According to a TV listing from a Spanish newspaper for Sunday, '''4 April 1993''' (see illustration), the [[Colin Baker stories|Colin Baker era]] was airing at that time.
 
*By the middle of 1995 – around the same time the station was re-branded as '''BBC Prime''' – the [[Jon Pertwee stories]] (the standard mixed format package of all 24 serials) were screening.
 
*[[The Ambassadors of Death]] part one in colour and the re-colourised episode five aired in colour for the first time on BBC Prime.
 
*[[The Mind of Evil]] aired in '''September 1995'''.
 
*The [[Tom Baker stories]] screened from '''June 1997'''
 
*During the run of [[The Creature from the Pit]], the 1996 [[TV Movie]] aired on '''30 December 1999''', the actual date on which the movie was set. 
 
*[[Peter Davison stories]] played from '''September 2000'''
 
*The [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] concluded with [[Survival]] in '''August 2002'''.
 
*The McCoy era was followed by [[The Five Doctors]], which lead into a further run of repeats.
 
 
It's unclear exactly when it was that the '''Doctor Who''' run ended on BBC Prime.
 
 
'''BBC Prime''' was available in the following countries, some of which also had previously aired '''Doctor Who''' on their own domestic stations: 
 
*[[Belgium]]
 
*[[Denmark]]
 
*[[Hong Kong]]
 
*[[Malta]]
 
*Israel (from June 2000)
 
*[[Italy]]
 
*[[Korea (South)|South Korea]]
 
*[[Netherlands|The Netherlands]]
 
*[[Norway]]
 
*[[Poland]]
 
*[[Singapore]]
 
*South Africa
 
*[[Thailand]]
 
*[[Turkey]]
 
*[[Sweden]]
 
*[[Yugoslavia|Serbia]]
 
(And no doubt many others….)
 
 
 
*'''IDENTS''': [http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/International/scandinavia/bbc_ent.html BBC PRIME IDENTS]
 
 
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==EUROPE==
 
==EUROPE==
  
As noted above, several European countries were able to receive Super Channel and BBC Prime, but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:  
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Several European countries were able to receive [[Super Channel]] and [[BBC Prime]], but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:  
 
 
[[File:TV4SFlogo.JPG |right|thumb|250px|TV4 Science Fiction logo]]
 
===TV4 SCIENCE FICTION===
 
 
 
'''[[wikipedia:TV4 Science Fiction|TV4 Science Fiction]]''' is a satellite and cable television channel dedicated to the science fiction genre owned by TV4 AB. It was launched on 29 February 2008, and was broadcast to [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], and [[Norway]].
 
 
 
 
 
'''TRANSMISSION'''
 
 
 
'''TV4 SF''' screened all the available serials from the first seven Doctors. Episodes screened three times daily, usually early evening, just after midnight, then around 3.00am the following morning. It would appear that '''Doctor Who''' was part of the regular schedules since launch date in '''February 2008'''.
 
 
 
By '''May 2008''', the [[Jon Pertwee stories]] were screening. By August, they had reached the [[Tom Baker stories]], starting with [[Robot]] from the first Friday of that month.
 
 
 
By '''March 2009''', the [[Sylvester McCoy]] stories were screening.
 
  
The series later moved to '''TV4 Guld''' (TV4 Gold):
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*[[TV4 Science Fiction]]
*[http://www.tv4.se/1.316193/doctor_who TV4 GULD PAGE]
 
*[http://www.tvexperten.se/category/tv4 TV4 SCHEDULES]
 
*[http://www.tv4.se/1.731953/ DOCTOR WHO ON TV4]
 
  
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==LATIN AMERICA==
 
==LATIN AMERICA==
===HBO OLE===
 
  
'''Doctor Who''' aired briefly on this Latin America station:
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'''Doctor Who''' aired briefly on two South American-based satellite stations:
  
*[[HBO OLE]]
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*[[HBO OLE|HBO Ole]]
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*[[Uniseries]]
  
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==AUSTRALIA==
  
Imagen Satelital, a Latin American broadcaster, licensed season 13 (Tom
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'''Doctor Who''' screened on [[Australia]]'s '''[[wikipedia:Foxtel|FOXTEL]] / UKTV''' from '''1 August 1996'''.
Baker's second season) and possibly also some of the Leela stories season 14, in 2001, and broadcast to:
 
*[[Argentina]]
 
*Bolivia
 
*[[Chile]]
 
*Paraguay
 
*Uruguay
 
*And possibly other countries within [[:Category:Central America|Central America]], such as [[wikipedia:Belize|Belize]] (Terrance Dicks has mentioned at conventions that he once signed autographs during a visit to Belize in December 2003)
 
  
 
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* See our dedicated [[Australia]] pages.
'''TRANSMISSION'''
 
 
 
From '''1 October 2001''', the series was (probably) available on the following satellite channels:
 
*'''[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniseries UNISERIES]'''
 
*'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(Latin_American_TV_channel) SPACE]'''
 
*'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Sat I-SAT]'''
 
*'''INFINITO LATINO'''
 
 
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Latin_America TV STATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA]
 
 
 
Episodes aired on Sundays at 9:30pm, and again on Monday, at 4:30am!
 
 
 
The serials were broadcast in '''English''' but with '''[[Spanish]]''' subtitles, the first time this method was adopted; previously, broadcasts in Spanish-language countries were dubbed. It would seem that by 2001, the original dubbed tapes that
 
were used from the late 1970s (and owned by Time Life / Lionheart) were no longer available.
 
 
 
Regular screenings had concluded by '''January 2003'''.  
 
 
 
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Cable and Satellite Stations

Doctor Who has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in Europe and South America - could view the series on a regular basis (albeit in English).



UNITED KINGDOM

"Dr Who" repeats on BBC World Service satellite (at 5.55pm), available in Malta in April 1993

Doctor Who aired on several domestic UK satellite stations, some independent, some owned by the BBC. They each have their own dedicated pages:



UNITED STATES and CANADA

Doctor Who aired on several US cable channels in the 1980s and 1990s, while most of the Canadian broadcasts of the series were on cable:



EUROPE

Several European countries were able to receive Super Channel and BBC Prime, but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:



LATIN AMERICA

Doctor Who aired briefly on two South American-based satellite stations:



AUSTRALIA

Doctor Who screened on Australia's FOXTEL / UKTV from 1 August 1996.



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