1998, June (Pricing)

A online deal from Sky providing a receiver and dish with free installation for £79.99 (2019 adjustment: £147) when any tier Sky subscription is purchased for a minimum term of 12 months. This offer was featured on the Sky website, was published June 1998 (observed in an archive snapshot from 3rd of February 1999), and has an offer expiry date of 30th of September 1998.

£11.99 per month (2019 adjustment: £22):
Sky Multi-Channels:

Sky 1
Sky 2 (channel retired 31st August 1997, replaced with National Geographic on 1st of September 1997)
Sky Soap
Sky Scottish (channel retired 31st of May 1998 due to poor viewing figures)
Sky Travel
Sky News
CNBC
EBN (?)
Paramount Comedy Channel
UK Gold
UK Living
UK Horizons (new channel as of 1st of November 1997)
Challenge TV
Discovery Home & Leisure (previously TLC, rebranded early April 1997)
TCC
Nickelodeon
Fox Kids Network
Bravo Trouble (new channel as of 1997, but unmentioned in previous channel rosters archived by this website)
The Discovery Channel
The History Channel
National Geographic (new channel as of 1st of September 1997
The Sci-Fi Channel
The Weather Channel (channel retired 30th of January 1998 due to poor viewing figures)
[.tv] (previously The Computer Channel)
Bravo
Granada Plus
Granada Men & Motors
Granada Talk TV (channel retired 31st of August 1997)
Granada Breeze (previously Granada Good Life, rebranded 1st of May 1998)
QVC
MTV
VH-1
CMT (channel retired 31st of March 1998)

£20.99 per month (2019 adjustment: £38.50):
Sky Multi-Channels (see above) plus:
One of the following Premium channels:
Option 1: Sky Sports 1*
Option 2: Sky Sports 2*
Option 3: Sky Premier* (previously Sky Movies/Sky Movies Screen 1)
Option 4: Sky MovieMax* (previously The Movie Channel/Sky Movies Screen 2)
Option 5: The Disney Channel

£24.99 per month (2019 adjustment: £46):
Sky Multi-Channels (see above) plus:
Two of the following Premium channels:
Option 1: Sky Sports 1*
Option 2: Sky Sports 2*
Option 3: Sky Premier* (previously Sky Movies/Sky Movies Screen 1)
Option 4: Sky MovieMax* (previously The Movie Channel/Sky Movies Screen 2)
Option 5: The Disney Channel

£27.99 per month (2019 adjustment: £51):
Sky Multi-Channels (see above) plus:
Three of the following Premium channels:
Option 1: Sky Sports 1*
Option 2: Sky Sports 2*
Option 3: Sky Premier* (previously Sky Movies/Sky Movies Screen 1)
Option 4: Sky MovieMax* (previously The Movie Channel/Sky Movies Screen 2)
Option 5: The Disney Channel

£29.99 per month (2019 adjustment: £55):
Sky Multi-Channels (see above) plus:
Four of the following Premium channels:
Option 1: Sky Sports 1*
Option 2: Sky Sports 2*
Option 3: Sky Premier* (previously Sky Movies/Sky Movies Screen 1)
Option 4: Sky MovieMax* (previously The Movie Channel/Sky Movies Screen 2)
Option 5: The Disney Channel

£??.?? The Disney Channel (Terms state “The Disney Channel can be ordered on its own”, but price of a standalone subscription is unclear. It could be assumed that the price of 1 Premium Channel applies, but £20.99 for The Disney Channel alone, were a customer to add it to a full 4 Premium Channel package, seems exceptionally high.)

* Bonus Channels:
If both Sky Premier and Sky MovieMax are chosen, Sky Cinema is added at no extra cost.
If Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 are chosen, Sky Sports 3 is added at no extra cost.

(Previously two bonus channels per Premium Channel mix were provided, this has reduced to one each. Additionally, two sports channels must now be chosen to gain the single third channel in that category where previously only one was required. Since The Disney Channel is now considered a standalone Premium Channel, there now appears to be no single complete package which includes every possible channel without paying a significant premium.)

Minimum subscription period of 6 months for general subscriptions but 12 months if taking advantage of receiver purchase.
Extra may be charged for more involved installation requirements.
Offer not available to existing Sky customers, new customers subject to a one-off £12 (2019 adjustment: £22) connection fee.

Source: http://www.sky.co.uk:80/skytv/subscription/index.htm (via Wayback Machine)

Note: This may be the final analogue Sky price structure as Sky Digital was soon to launch and the closedown of analogue services now leaving the service on borrowed time. Planning for a shutdown of the service on 31th of December 2002, Sky moved the final shutdown of the analogue transmissions forward to September 2001. The Sky Digital website in 1999 no longer appears to offer new analogue subscriptions, instead offering only digital options, and the quoted post below (though lacking verifiable sources) suggests that Sky ceased providing new analogue subscriptions on 28th of April 1999:

From my time working at ONdigital, my handbook states that sky stopped selling sky analogue to new customers (and installs) on April 28, 1999.

I cannot reference this because it is in my old training manuals for ONdigital.

Timbionline, DigitalSpy forum (post date 28/01/13)