Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Initially, Brick and Click companies were skeptical whether or not to add an online e-commerce channel for fear that selling their products might produce channel conflict with their off-line retailers, agents, or their own stores.

Initially, CB channels 1 through 3 remained allocated to amateur radio and channel 23 was used by paging services.

Initially called the Gallatin Canyon Basin, the Meadow is braided with small rivers that channel mountain snow run-off.

Initially, Nickelodeon shared channel space with fellow Warner Cable channel Star Channel, which eventually became The Movie Channel at the end of 1979.

Initially broadcasting for two hours a week as a block of programming on the Nickelodeon ( it wouldn't be until 1983 that BET became a full fledged channel ), the network lineup consisted of music videos and reruns of popular black sitcoms.

Initially, the channel shared its transponder with no less than five other satellite television channels at one point, limiting its out-put to early evenings and late nights, with the rest of its continuous daytime programming ( including cartoons ) restricted to cable.

Initially broadcast as CNN2 on January 1, 1982, the channel was renamed one year later to CNN Headline News.

Initially the broadcast was for a few hours each day but has since evolved into a full channel that operates twenty-four hours a day.

Initially, the proposal was for two television channels, one in English and Afrikaans, aimed at white audiences, and another, known as TV Bantu, aimed at black viewers., but when television was finally introduced, there was only one channel.

Initially, the channel was only available on the terrestrial RiksTV platform.

Initially broadcast live from 7: 30 PM ET until midnight each weekday and all day Saturdays and Sundays, the channel extended its live programming to 24 hours in January 1987.

Initially it broadcast from the Mount Wellington transmitter on VHF channel 6, to all of Hobart.

Initially it was assumed that the new channels would be BBC-branded: ' BBC Showcase ', an entertainment channel ; ' BBC Horizon ', documentaries ; ' BBC Style ', lifestyle ; ' BBC Learning ', for schools, and ' BBC Arena ', for the arts, plus three other channels including ' BBC Sport ', ' BBC Catch-Up ', for repeats of popular programmes within days of their original transmission, and ' BBC One ', a TV version of Radio One.

Initially, the channel was a cassette-delivered service delivered to cable head ends for automatic play-out.

Initially shown on satelitte channel Information TV, it was quickly picked up by ITV1 for their night time slot.

Initially the system had one channel that was transmitted as direct audio.

Initially, CHUM Limited simulcast select MuchMusic USA programming on the Canadian music channel MuchMusic, with the only differences being in commercials, and certain French language programming ( such as its French music video block French Kiss, and licensed programming imported from MTV and VH1 ) replaced with either infomercials or reruns of other programming.

Initially, Cancom charged cable television companies anywhere from fifteen cents to sixty-five cents per TV channel per subscriber ( channel subs ) depending on the number of Cancom channels carried on the cable system and the number of subscribers receiving the channels.

Initially, as required by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), the channel carried no commercials, except for promotional messages, interstitial programs ( such as help segments known as R-Force ( pronounced like " Air Force ")), as well as public service announcements.

Initially, the channel served all regions within Europe being one of the very few channels that targeted the entire European continent.

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

Initially available for broadcast to stationary TV receivers, by 2004 popular mobile direct broadcast applications made their appearance with the arrival of two satellite radio systems in the United States: Sirius and XM Satellite Radio Holdings.

Initially he broadcast time signals to Allegheny city business and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Initially, Venevisión broadcast live because they hadn't yet installed the videotape system.

Initially Broadcasting in the United states was restricted to two wavelengths: " entertainment " was broadcast at 360 meters ( 833 kHz ), with stations required to switch to 485 meters ( 619 kHz ) when broadcasting weather forecasts, crop price reports and other government reports.

Initially controversial at the time, the show was created with the express intention of changing the nature of network one-hour drama to compete with the more adult fare broadcast on cable networks.

Initially, modified medical diathermy sets transmitted interference, but later, on nights where raids were expected, local radio transmitters broadcast a surplus " dot signal " at low power.

Initially the vast majority was aired by local broadcast stations only, but after the communication boom of the 1990s the metropolitan radio stations began to also employ them.

Initially, SBS only broadcast terrestrially in Seoul and its surrounding areas.

Initially, this was Pat Summerall ( Madden's partner during his days at CBS and Fox during the early 1980s on through the early 2000s ) until Summerall retired ; the role was then filled by Al Michaels, John's broadcast partner on ABC Monday Night Football ( 2002 – 2005 ) and NBC Sunday Night Football ( 2006 – 2008 ).

Initially it was envisaged that the station would only broadcast on cable and MMDS but it was later decided that the station should broadcast on terrestrial UHF also.

Initially confirmed for only 13 instalments, the series lasted nearly 58 years and gathered an enormous audience, being broadcast not only in Britain and in many other Commonwealth countries, but throughout the world by the BBC World Service.

Initially only operating in the Auckland region Sky contracted Broadcast Communications to provide the broadcast service and transmission from its Panorama Road studios formerly owned by defunct broadcaster Northern Television.

Initially using marine band ( today's extended AM broadcast band ) frequencies, stations in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney began operating.

Initially broadcast three times a week, the programme expanded in 1956 to air Monday to Saturday, with Sunday editions beginning in 1961.

Initially RnaG broadcast for only a handful of hours a day and was only available in or near the three largest Gaeltacht districts, but following the putting in place of a fourth RTÉ national radio transmitter network ( used for RTÉ lyric fm ), the station expanded to 24 hours from 1 October 2001.

Initially streams were generally broadcast in the RealAudio and RealVideo formats controlled by RealNetworks and the BBC drew criticism with some for using those closed formats which, at the time, could only be played using RealPlayer.

Initially, 60 Minutes aired as a bi-weekly show hosted by Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10: 00 p. m.

Initially, Bonanza aired on Saturday evenings opposite Perry Mason.

Initially, its programming line-up consisted of business news during the day and VEU, a subscription TV service during the evenings and weekends.

Initially, Michael Tozzi hosted middays, Teri Webb ( who left the new station in August 2007 ) covered evenings and weekend shifts and bassist Gerald Veasley did weekend afternoons.