British Satellite Broadcasting plc was a short-lived television company, based in London, that provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom. It started broadcasting on
A photo of all three BSB dishes available, the squarial, a Sky dish for comparison, the round BSB dish, and the square BSB dish.
A squarial installed on a house wall
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The Squarial was a satellite antenna used for reception of the now defunct British Satellite Broadcasting television service. The Squarial was a flat plate satellite antenna, built to be unobtrusive a
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…been larger than 60 cm (24"). To distance itself from Sky and its dish antennas, BSB announced a new type of flat-plate satellite antenna called a "squarial" (i.e., "square aerial"). The illustrative model shown to the press was a dummy and BSB commissioned a working version under 45 cm (18") wide. A…
a Squarial (right), adjacent to a Sky Minidish