Babestation History Timeline

Babestation Is Born

Babestation hits our screens for the first time.  The first show of it's kind in the U.K where viewers can interact live with female presenters via premium rate phone numbers or text messages.

In it's first year the program expands in length, from 11pm until 3am and adds presenters to between four and five on screen at a time.  It also improves it's output to include fullscreen girls instead of 1/6 boxes and hand held cameras.

Babecast Launches

Babecast launches also owned by Cellcast, the makers of Babestation.  Babecast also features female presenters, encouraging the viewers to call and text the show

Babestation Dominates

Due to Babestation's domination of the schedule, Game Network U.K where Babestation had been appearing changes it's name to Babestation outright.

SKY Moves

SKY moves the channel to the new 'Adult' section of channels - Also available on freeview channels under Adult section.

Party People

Party People becomes first Freeview babeshow, showing on FV CH 37 at 3am.  It went out in the early hours but stuck to daytime compliance regulations regarding nudity and chat content - i.e. flirty not dirty.  During it's run, dresses were shed in favour of bikinis or underwear, chat became more sexual.

Smile TV

Smile TV starts broadcasting Party People from 1am-4am and SumoTV from 4-5am.

Party Girls

Smile TV closes. By this time, the entirety of the channel's output of Party People showing from 1am-4am had developed into a premium rate telephone chat-line service by the name of Party Girls.

Smile TV 2

SmileTV2 FV CH 46 during the daytime hours would broadcast Party People and Life Coach which was later replaced by Psychic TV.  Also showing daytime chat show, 'The Chat' and 'Smile & Date' between 10am-5.30am.  Channel was mostly a low bandwidth, experimental compilation of interactive products.  Mixed babeshows with other types of interactive entertainment.  Had a fluid schedule that would take impromptu breaks during the day, depending on who was available to appear.  This was the channel that took terrestrial babeshows from the obscure, early morning, bikini wearing content that was Party People, through the calls and texts format of 'The Chat'  to the all naked, crazy night shows that became Party Girls, featuring such wild names as Amanda Rendalla and Dionne Mendez.

Party Girls First Fully Fledged Night Show

Party Girls becomes the first fully fledged, sexually themed night show.  Showing on FV 46.  Ground breaking in that before it began, sex, nudity and titillation, purely for the purposes of sexual stimulation was presumed unattainable on the FV platform.  By the end of the run, sexual content had become an accepted part of nighttime terrestrial TV - not only per-se but as an uninterrupted and sustained all night, live broadcast from playful to sexual to hard domination, to girl on girl touching, kissing, spanking, even using baby oil.  Party Girls is often thought of as the seminal FV live babeshow.

SmileTV2 Ceases Broadcasting.

Smile TV 2 Removed From EPG.

Partyland

 Partyland appears for the first time from 1am until 5.30am on FV CH 50.  Allowed topless presenters but in other respects, still more heavily restricted the Party Girls which went off air 3 nights before Partyland began.  Partyland was the first FV babeshow to be preceded by a pre-recorded content warning.

Babestation 1 Is Coming!

When Partygirls came to the end of it's run on CH 46 the Babestation girls who had become the darlings of the night time FV schedule were suddenly a lot more difficult for terrestrial viewers to find.  Not even the new arrival of Partyland could make up for the loss of Partygirls.  Within a few weeks of the end of Partygirls, viewers would receive what they'd been promised.  A brand new show transmitting with better bandwidth, no more pixelation due to low bit rate, no minimally sized viewing window, no heavy screen-surrounding graphics.  This was going to be a full screen broadcast, shot on the spacious, premium set with all the trappings, the video inserts, the works!  This was going to become....BABESTATION 1 

SmileTV2 Relaunches

SmileTV2 relaunches, time sharing with Ideal World, broadcasting Babestation daily between 12am-5am, set up to carry the first branded Babestation broadcasts on FV.

Babestation 1 Makes Its Debut

Just after midnight Babestation 1 started broadcasting for the first time on Smile TV 2 CH 33.  It premiered with Donna Duke on the mic with Megan Moore taking the first ever call.  But for a brief switch around in 2010, has remained BS1's FV home ever since, including when the show was renamed, Babenation.

3G Girls

The first 18 days of FV broadcasts BS1 regularly as well as 3G Girls.  Dedicated to cam chat girls until it was replaced by Sexstation.  Though brief, this show could be considered one of the earliest forerunners to cam shows as we know them today.  BS1 3G Girls did not feature generally high profile girls but was produced in-house, working from the main studio.  The old BS1 set had it's own 3G area.

3G Girls Gets Intergrated

Part of the old 3G area was integrated into new Babestation 2 set and the remainder integrated into Partyland.

Party People Night Show Cancelled.

SmileTV3 Launches.

Now showing Babestation on FV CH 673.

Partyland and Babestation Swap Babes

Partyland and Babestation which had previously been separate, started swapping girls for nights at a time, with Babestation's Camilla and Tiffany appearing extensively on Partyland towards the end of the month. This was most likely to raise the profile of Partyland before Babestation would fully adopt the channel into it's fold.

Babestation 2 Moves

Babestation 2 moved from SKY to FV CH 42.  It's rivals, BS1 (CH 33), Partyland (CH 50) and a new incarnation of Party Girls (CH 37).  Billed as a revival of the classic CH 46 show but had little in common with the former series beyond the name and only lasted two months before being replaced by Babestation Xtra.

Babestation Schedule To Date

Partyland Gets Replaced By Babestation

Smile TV Moves

Smile TV moved from CH 33 to CH 94 when the adult channels were first separated from 'family viewing'.

Babestation Xtra Moves

Babestation Xtra with it's POV camera work, upfront Girl on Girl contact, fast moving, 'cut the crap' approach earnt it's reputation as the most risque of FV channels.  It was moved to CH 95 at the end of Sept '09 as part of wholesale reallocation of adult channels to higher numbers.

First Ever BS Xtra Freeview Show

Who was the first ever girl on BS Xtra Freeview show?  Well technically, there were five of them, all hitting the screen at once Two presenters and three phone babes streaming live in inset windows.  The opening presenters were Louise Porter and Stevie-Louise Ritchie and the phone girls were Kelly Carter, Ella Jolie and Rosie Lee.  Paige Tyler susbequently did the full verbal introduction explaining the concept etc. 

New Smile TV 2

The new Smile TV 2 carries BS2 with BS1 moving to CH 96.  BS2 also switched from CH 95 to FV CH 94.

Summary of SmileTV2 FV Night Shows History

BS2 replaced with Babestation Xtreme

Babestation Xtreme

Ch 96 becomes the new encrypted channel, Babestation Xtreme.  This moves the main portion of BS1, from midnight to 5am back to Smile TV 2, CH 94.  However, the early portion of BS1 from 11pm did remain on CH 96 and was used to promote and sell the encrypted service.

Babestation Xtreme Makes It\\\\

Starts showing live girl/girl sex shows.

BS2 Cancelled

After some more channel juggling the final remnants of BS2 were replaced by non-Babestation show, Live 99 but essentially it was Babestation Xtreme that killed off BS2.

Glamourchase Replaced By Babestation Blue

Masti Chat Dayshow Launches

Babestation Blue Shares Space

Masti Night Show

Masti Nights, the first of the new themed shows starts sharing the schedule with Babestation Blue.  Starting at 1am on FV CH 97.  Kiran Khan, Shanti and Ayesha are the first presenters to appear.  Masti Nights would share the monthly schedule with Blue, Dirty Wives and Babestation Apprentice.

Sexstation On Blue

Sexstation on Babestation Blue CH 97.  An attempt to promote the Sexstation webshow using Freeview's wider reach.  However, couldn't push the performances to anything more than what could normally be seen on TV.  Only lasted two appearances.

Babestation Balloon

Babestation Balloon.  Only lasted a few shows.  Concept targeting a very niche market.  Very fetish orientated.  Brought back the text request format making it feel like the old style shows.  Feet requests were never far away.

Dirty Wives Launches

 Dirty Wives launches on the same channel as BS Blue and Masti Nights.  This show shares the same format as the other Babestation night shows but is presented only by women of a certain age.  The rise in it's popularity causes it to overtake Masti and Blue. 

Babestation Apprentice Launches

Babestation Apprentice launches on CH 97.  Setup as a 'testing ground' show for new babes to prove themselves with the concept being for successful apprentices to 'graduate' onto the main shows, BS1 and Xtra.  Babestation Apprentice would often feature 2 or 3 babes on screen at a time and was not only a showcase for new talent but was also an effective cost-cutting device by getting cheaper, less well known names on screen instead of the more expensive established babes.

Dirty Wives Struggling

Dirty Wives down to 2 nights per week.

Dirty Wives Smashing It

The peak of Dirty Wive's run, getting scheduled on 5 nights a week.

Dirty Wives Losing It

Dirty Wives down to 1 night per week.

Dirty Wives Dead

Dirty Wives Cancelled.

Babestation Xtreme Gets A Face Lift

Babestation Xtreme was reconstituted to Babestation X

Smile TV Moves

Smile TV moved from CH 94 to CH 172.

Babestation Academy

Babestation Academy succeeds Babestation Apprentice.  Academy is essentially the same concept but where Academy differed is it stuck with newcomers only appearing on the show rather than drafting in established babes to appear which Apprentice did quite often, especially towards the end of it's run.  Academy also had it's call charges lowered whereas Apprentice stuck with the usual charge of £1.53.

Masti Absorbed Into Bikini Babes

Masti early morning day time FV show absorbed into Bikini Babes brand.

BSX Arrives

Babestation X renamed and relaunched as BSX.

Smile TV2 Airs Babenation.

SmileTV 2 Closes.