Many movies with a general sports theme will include ESPN announcers and programming into their storylines ( such as in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, which gently lampoons the channel's multiple outlets by referencing the as-yet-nonexistent ESPN8, " The Ocho ", a reference to a nickname formerly used for ESPN2, " the Deuce "; the slogan for the network was " If it's almost a sport, you'll find it here!

Many of the channel's earliest original movies ( particularly those made from 1997 to 2002 ) have seldom been aired by Disney Channel in recent years, except for some holiday-themed movies ; in January 2009, the channel began airing these older original movies on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 am ET / PT ; since June 2010, movies also air on Sundays in late night and since July 2010, the movies start at 2: 30 am ET / PT and some of the late-night weekend movies are aired without promo breaks.

Many argued that what killed the show was its bad time slot, on Wednesday nights, but fans were rather suspicious that what actually would have caused cancellation was an alleged conservatism as well as censorship on the part of ABC and possibly some of the channel's audience.

Many of the channel's personalities routinely pull double-duty ( or more ) — hosting both daytime and nighttime programming — and the channel regularly offers specials which typically either follow its personalities on working vacations, or bring together a number of personalities for a themed cooking event.

Many of the channel's shows are war documentaries, the contents of which deal in large part with modern warfare, and in particular the U. S. military from World War II on.

Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth, thereby contributing substantially to community development programs.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

Many graphics programs thus contained their own bitmap character generator routines.

Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

Many universities throughout the world are now providing programs in bioengineering and biotechnology ( as independent programs or specialty programs within more established engineering fields ).

Many computer programs fail to display bi-directional text correctly.

Many application programs deal principally with documents.

Many NASA based operations interact and identify each other through command programs called software.

Many CBT treatment programs for specific disorders have been evaluated for efficacy ; the health-care trend of evidence-based treatment, where specific treatments for symptom-based diagnoses are recommended, has favored CBT over other approaches such as psychodynamic treatments.

Many smaller programs, such as Rabbi Benay Lappe's SVARA yeshiva, are also led by Conservative rabbis.

Many Unix, GNU, BSD and Linux programs and packages have been ported to Cygwin, including the X Window System, K Desktop Environment 3, GNOME, Apache, and TeX.

Many departments offer honors programs requiring students seeking that distinction to engage in " independent, sustained work ," culminating in the production of a thesis.

Many of the successful programs were transitioned to the Services, such as the foundation technologies in automatic target recognition, space based sensing, propulsion, and materials that were transferred to the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ), later known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ), now titled the Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ).

Many specialists claim that it is impossible to advance significant development programs with such a little public sector ( the tax burden in the United States is around 25 % of the GDP and in other developed countries of the EU it can reach around 50 %, like in Sweden ).

Many industrialized nations also began to utilize EVM in their own procurement programs.

Many conversion tables and programs exist, largely created by genealogists.

Many pulmonary rehabilitation programs therefore have begun to incorporate the harmonica.

Many of these programs were done domestically and on participants who were not informed of the study's purposes or that they would be given drugs.

Many official meetings and conferences are held ( more than 300 have been devoted to the problem of the Aral Sea alone ), but few practical programs have gone into operation.

Many logically-based program transformation techniques have been developed to assist the programmer in this process, transforming programs that are correct but inefficient into programs that are both correct and efficient.

Many computer-sequencing programs allow manipulation of the musical data such that composing for an entire orchestra of sounds is possible.

Many are phototrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy.

Many other genera, both perennials and bulbs, are grown in gardens in tropical and temperate regions ( e. g. Watsonia, Crocus, Dietes, Tritonia, Hesperantha and Neomarica ).

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

</ br > Many Calvinist critics of Arminianism, both historically and currently, claim that Arminianism condones, accepts, or even explicitly supports Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism.

Many dual system television receivers, equipped to receive both analog transmissions and digital transmissions have analog tuner ( television ) receiving capability and must use a television antenna.

Many binary operations of interest in both algebra and formal logic are commutative or associative.

Many players use a backhand hitting action for returning smashes on both the forehand and backhand sides, because backhands are more effective than forehands at covering smashes directed to the body.

Many food, such as beef steak and broccoli, contain low concentrations of both carcinogens and anticarcinogens.

Many thousands of others, from both sides, left the island entirely.

Many physicists and philosophers have objected to the Copenhagen interpretation, both on the grounds that it is non-deterministic and that it includes an undefined measurement process that converts probability functions into non-probabilistic measurements.

Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.

Many, both nobles and rustics, asked to be admitted into the community.

Many other philosophers have posited cosmological arguments both before and since Aquinas.

Many cnidarian species produce colonies that are single organisms composed of medusa-like or polyp-like zooids, or both.

Many multimedia data streams contain both audio and video, and often some metadata that permit synchronization of audio and video.

Many historical reenactment groups, especially those whose focus is Antiquity or the Middle Ages, commonly use mail both as practical armour and for costuming.

") Many of Poole's arguments were easily attended to, but both authors emphasize the importance of Cotton Mather's difficult and contradictory view on spectral evidence, as copied in the final pages of Increase Mather's " Cases of Conscience " called " The Return of Several Ministers.

Many observers from both within and outside of China have argued that the CPC has taken gradual steps towards democracy and transparency, hence arguing that it is best to give it time and room to evolve into a better government that is more responsive to its people rather than forcing an abrupt change with all the deleterious effects such a loss of stability might entail.

Many mediums who are good clairvoyants may well have little or no clairaudient capability even though both " gifts " belong in the primary channel of clairsensing.

Many similar battles were fought between the succeeding Sultanate of Adal and the Solomonids, with both sides achieving victory and suffering defeat.

Many small-format digital SLR camera systems allow using many of the same lenses on both full-frame and “ cropped format ” cameras.

Many data structures use both principles, sometimes combined in non-trivial ways ( as in XOR linking )

Many early bassists doubled on both the brass bass and string bass, as the instruments were then often referred to.

Many Protestant churches are now organized by either congregational or presbyterian church polities, both descended from the writings of John Calvin, a Protestant reformer working and writing independently following the break with the Roman Catholic Church precipitated by The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther.

Many earthquakes are caused by movement on faults that have components of both dip-slip and strike-slip ; this is known as oblique slip.