British TV programming in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries be likely to be popular and watched alongside American TV shows as well as their own native programming, the English language is a second language to many, or most Scandinavians.
[2][5] The Sky Family Entertainment Channel was originally intended to be an selection of content available from BSkyB's satellite TV service in the UK and Ireland, it might be most likely that Granada's channels were chosen as there will be no territorial broadcast rights issues.
In Sky Entertainment's case, the channels were: At the time during the launch, Sky Entertainment shared its analogue D2-MAC transponder on Intelsat 707 with Danish public service broadcaster DR2, meaning that CMT and Granada Good Life were the only channels broadcasting to analogue viewers, meanwhile, DR2 was broadcasting between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m., meaning the programmes of Granada Plus and/or Granada Men & Motors weren't available to analogue viewers.
When CMT Europe closed down in 1998, it's airtime on Sky Entertainment was replaced by Video Zone.
[7] On February 14, 1999, Sky Entertainment will be ceasing transmissions at 1am CET, after just 18 months on-air.