[Neil Jones]

Do we need to remember the project had been tooted since the early 1980s, then was heavily delayed until the mid 1980s because of cost wrangling and didn't get going until the late 80s, and by that point the plan was pretty much sunk, even more so when Sky launched a year or so before them. Sky Television of course having already been on the air in some form via satellite for much of the 1980s to Europe IIRC.