What follows is a blog, originally posted by @Babe_TV on their Tumblr account on 16th March 2014. Theirs was an incredibly detailed account and charted many of the events of Babestation and other babe channels going back a long time. Unfortunately, it can no longer be accessed as the account has been deleted. Luckily we have a number of posts and we will be posting them here and on Babestationcams in tribute to the work that was done.
Whilst there’s no sign of them at the time of writing (March 2014), and hasn’t been for a very long time, bath scenes have not been as uncommon as you might imagine on the terrestrial babe channels.
The Babestation night shows used a bath from late October 2009 when they dumped their traditional, generic beds and for some time went for themed sets across the board. Babestation’s bath was used for Freeview sections with decreasing regularity until April 2010, after which it was used in some Freeview pic promos that summer. Bang Babes also began using a bath on their Freeview babe channels from March 2010. The last of the Freeview babeshows to use a bath to date has been Playboy TV Chat, which went to terrestrial screens in December 2011 and brought a number of bath scenes to Channel 194/99 in 2012.
The main focus of this post, however, is Elite TV’s, (now Studio 66’s) bath set, which appeared on Freeview during the course of the show’s run on Channel 192 between April 2011 and January 2012, but saw particularly intensive use during September and the autumn of 2011. The pic above of Lilly Roma in the Elite, (Studio 66) bath. Like all the images, this capture is from a Freeview show. The lack of sales graphics on the screen is a tell tale sign that the pic comes from the beginning of a Channel 192 broadcast. Elite would normally run a minute or two of ‘clear’ footage after the channel went to air, before introducing the telephone numbers and promos.
Above: The style of presentation would depend on the model, but in general, Elite’s, (Studio 66’s) bath scenes were more sensual and laid back than those on Babestation or Bang Babes. In total contradiction of that, however, is this pic of Lori Buckby in the bath on Elite TV, (now Studio 66). Lori adopted a very different approach from Lilly’s, replacing the elegant eroticism with an explosive and dynamic energy. By this time in September 2011 it was extremely difficult to believe that three years earlier Lori was the innocent face of Channel 46, presenting the programming schedule on daytime TV.
And in the final image (above), Charlie O’Neil is captured epitomising the babe channel babe combined with girl next door look. Like all the girls in this post, Charlie had worked on the other babe channels, including Babestation, before moving to Elite, (Studio 66). But whilst Lori’s style was much more ‘Babestation’, Charlie’s was very much out of the classic Elite TV mould.
