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In the early days the channel operated on a £ 40 million budget ( plus £ 10 million share of overheads ), which led Sam Chisholm to propose to Murdoch the station be closed, but Rupert was " pleased with its achievements ... there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it ... the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel.
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The first two or three days they went home early.
In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.
But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.
In the early days of this controversy over the theater one of the interested parties, Stephen Gosson, published a little tract in which he objected mildly to the abuses of art, rather than the art itself.
Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.
He flew over Rome one day during the early days of Mussolini and scattered leaflets over the city, denouncing the Fascists.
And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.
A light, porous mulch applied now keeps the roots cool and the soil soft during these early days of growth.
This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.
Home air conditioning has come a long way from the early days of overcooled theaters and the thermal shock they inflicted.
Every few days, in the early morning, as the work progressed, twenty men would appear to push it ahead and to shift the plank foundation that distributed its weight widely on the Rotunda pavement, supported as it is by ancient brick vaulting.
Indonesia, in the early days of the Republic, leaned toward the West.
and one of $2,000 under the will of Miss Celia L. Brett of Hamilton, New York, a friend from the early days.
A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.
There were mornings when Stanley came in late, afternoons when he left early, days when he didn't come in at all.
The Princess said it was too early to say what would be decided if no agreement was reached after three days.
Stengel probably preached too much in the early days when the kid wanted to pop his bubble gum and sow his oats.
Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.
Fifteen days early -- isn't that wonderful ''??
Upstream from it and between the Rhine and Abnoba ( in the Black Forest ) are the Ingriones, Intuergi, Vangiones, Caritni and Vispi, some of whom were there since the days of the early empire or before.
The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.
In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.
The early use of Chinese astrology was mainly confined to political astrology, the observation of unusual phenomena, identification of portents and the selection of auspicious days for events and decisions.
The stylized snake-like " D " logo, also used since the early days for the road uniforms, was slightly redesigned and a completely new shoulder patch introduced.
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Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.
In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.
A channel of the Çarşamba river once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been favourable for early agriculture.
Indeed television sets sold throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ' ITV / IBA 2 '.
One clear benefit of the ' late arrival ' of the channel was that its frequency allocations at each transmitter had already been arranged in the early 1960s, when the launch of an ITV2 was highly anticipated.
Since the early 2000s, dredging machines have operated at the Murray Mouth, moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system.
Since enthusiastic congregational singing was a part of the early Evangelical movement, Wesleyan theology took root and spread through this channel.
For this reason, in early experiments a special reaction channel was chosen to facilitate the identification: the interaction of an antineutrino with one of the hydrogen nuclei in the water molecules.
End-to-end analog telephone networks were first modified in the early 1960s by upgrading transmission networks with T1 carrier systems, designed to support the basic 3 kHz voice channel by sampling the bandwidth-limited analog voice signal and encoding using PCM.
It is also used for secure wireless, where voice must be digitized, encrypted and sent over a narrow voice channel ; an early example of this is the US government's Navajo I.
The origin of Ferrara is uncertain, it was probably settled by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of Po river ; there are two early centers of settlement, one round the cathedral, the other, the castrum bizantino, being the San Pietro district, on the opposite shore, where the Primaro empties into the Volano channel.
During the early 1990s, Fox began having stations branded as " Fox ", then the channel number, with the call signs nearby.
Green not only has a higher luminance value than blue, but also in early digital formats, the green channel was sampled twice as often as the blue, making it easier to work with.
During Bildt's time as Foreign Minister the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened up a channel on YouTube which has been active since early 2008.
In early September 2007, CBC announced a new Hockey Night in Canada Radio show to air on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 122 ( Sports Play-by-Play 1 ) beginning October 1.
Mysore started receiving television broadcasts in early 1980s, when Doordarshan ( public service broadcaster of the Indian government ) started broadcasting its national channel all over India.
One of the early North American broadcasters of the British series was the Canadian youth channel YTV, though many episodes were edited for adult language and content.
In its early years, the channel broadcast some Soviet programming, including the news program Vremya.
In early 1989, the channel revived one of the company's early TV staples with The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, which was an immediate hit that proved Disney's basic variety show formula could still work, unlike in the short-lived 1970s revival.
Eastward of the Euphrates and southward of Sippara, Kutha and Babylon were Kish ( Ultaimir, E. of Hillah ), Nippur ( Niffer )- where stood the great sanctuary of El-lu, the older Bel-Uruk or Erech ( Warka ) and Larsa ( Senkera ) with its temple of the sun-god, while eastward of the Shatt el-Hai, probably the ancient channel of the Tigris, was Lagash ( Tello ), which played an important part in early Babylonian history.
During this early period, many CB radios had " inter-station " channels colored on their dials, whilst the other channels were clear or normally colored ( except channel 9, which was usually colored red.
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