For the first fifty years of its existence, with the exception of films and imported programmes from countries such as the United States and Australia, almost all the channel's output was produced by the BBC's in-house production departments.

All programmes still made in standard-definition are upscaled on the channel and it is intended that by 2012 the vast majority of the channel's output will be in high-definition.

The tone of the channel, engaging and more relaxed than contemporary BBC output, was the key to the channel's success and set the model for other BBC News services later in the decade.

The channel's current identity was introduced on Monday, 20 April 2009 as part of the unifying of all of BBC News ' output, the process which saw the BBC News Channel and BBC World News receive revamps in 2008.

Its main method of synthesis is Frequency modulation synthesis, done by phase modulation of the phase of one of the channel's oscillators by the output of the other.

In this position she was responsible for co-commissioning the channel's output with the various heads of department — drama, news, etc.

McGivern's period in Control of the channel's output saw a rapid increase of the television service's popularity, helped greatly by the 20 million audience for the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

The channel was closed on 8 March 2004, when the channel's output was split two ways.

A fair amount is similar to the comedy output of UK Play / Play UK before that channel's closure ; however, unlike Play, the channel did not include music videos.

The channel's entertainment output also consists of many other programmes which may be considered to be poor quality-imported game shows or Finnish versions of them ( such as Reikä seinässä, a Finnish version of the Japanese ' Human Tetris ' game ) and reality TV shows dominate the scheduling.

Murphy, who also went on to be controller of BBC Three, stated that the show would end as a way to " refresh the channel's output to best serve the audience ".

The S4C Authority () is an independent public body appointed by the United Kingdom Government's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to oversee the management of the Welsh-language television channel S4C and to regulate the quality of the channel's output.

Initially, the CNX branding was used throughout the channel's airtime, but shortly prior to the channel's closure the station switched to branding younger daytime output as Toonami, returning the brand to the UK following the removal of the Toonami branding from Cartoon Network UK at CNX's launch, with CNX remaining as the brand for adult-aimed evening output.

Evening programmes on CNX expanded upon the channel's " Triple A "-Action, Adventure and Anime-theme, with comedy ( such as Adult Swim output, some of which had previously aired in the AKA / Cult Toons strand on Cartoon Network UK, which does not have an Adult Swim strand ), anime, extreme sports, drama ( principally action / crime series such as The Shield and Birds of Prey ), and movies, with the channel's film output predominantly consisting of martial arts films, anime films and action / drama.

News, Sport and Weather specifically for Scotland are examples of the channel's distinct output.

An important part of the channel's presentation since launch has been the top of the hour countdown sequence, since there is no presentation system with continuity announcers so the countdown provides a link to the beginning of the next hour.

The Hub does not have the extensive cable reach or cultural impact as the other three channels ( although with the rise of the " brony " subculture, the channel's popularity has begun to increase ).

Then in May 1999, the channel debuted the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, which quickly became one of the most popular and longest-running Nicktoons in the network's history, and has remained very popular to this day, consistently ranking as the channel's highest-rated series since 2000.

There has been a gradual shift towards Nicktoon series using three-dimensional computer animation rather than traditional or digital two-dimensional ink and paint ; the introductions of The Penguins of Madagascar and Fanboy and Chum Chum to the channel's lineup reflect this.

Nickelodeon does have broadcast access to most feature films based on or that served as the basis for original series produced by the channel ( such as Barnyard and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ); the majority of live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various television outlets, primarily cable networks ( however, Nickelodeon has aired a small number of live-action features from Nickelodeon Movies including Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger, which have aired on the channel's Nick at Nite nighttime block ).

The channel's flagship series is the Canadian teen drama Degrassi, which has aired uninterrupted on the channel since 2003 as The N, two years after its official debut on Canadian broadcast network CTV ; TeenNick also airs repeats of current and former Nickelodeon series and some off-network sitcoms.

However, the likelihood of a channel's transitioning from the inactivated state directly to the activated state is very low: A channel in the inactivated state is refractory until it has transitioned back to the deactivated state.

Aimed at providing ' more choice, more often ', the channel mainly provided repeats of popular ABC TV productions, such as Australian Story and Stateline, and was prohibited by law from carrying programmes from a number of genres, however, since the removal of these restrictions the channel's content has been broadened considerably.

Programming on an American service may also be blocked if it has significant bearing on a Canadian legal matter ( one episode of Law & Order, inspired by the trials of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, was blocked in Canada ) or if it interferes with a Canadian channel's broadcast rights ( such as James Bond movies airing on Spike TV ; the Canadian broadcast rights are held by Bell Media.

While VH1 still occasionally plays music videos and the Top 20 Video Countdown, its more recent claim to fame has been in the area of music-related reality programming, such as Behind the Music, the I Love the ... series, the Celebreality block of programming, and the channel's overall focus on popular culture.

Since 2005 Sky News has produced bulletins for Five News on British TV channel Channel 5, after winning the contract to supply the channel's news bulletins held by ITN since the channel's launch in 1997.

As part of the new campaign the channel's original name, The Learning Channel, has returned to occasional usage in promotions.

Some segments are displayed without commentary under the banner " No Comment ", which has been the channel's signature program since its launch.

The use of " CNN " in the title of the channel has been intermittent throughout the channel's broadcast years until mid 2000s when it was dropped altogether for HLN.

Due to the channel's tradition of rolling news coverage, HLN has become popular with people who may not have time to watch lengthy news reports, in addition to places where a high demand for " get to the point " news exists, such as airports, bars, and many other places.

This has resulted in the channel's large popularity, especially among youth demographics where it consistently has the highest ratings, and contributed to it being the only profitable Greek television network for almost a decade.

The channel's main rival is the ITV plc owned ITV3, which mainly airs the archive ITV programmes, and has a higher audience share than Gold.

Much has been credited with helping to foster a vibrant Canadian music scene because of the Canadian content broadcast rules which mandated native musical acts had a secure and prominent place on the channel's play schedule.

It continued to be the most-watched satellite channel in Britain and Ireland, a position it held for most of the 1990s, with many first-run US imports such as The Simpsons ( which traditionally has been the channel's main selling-point, remaining a satellite exclusive until it finally made its terrestrial television appearance on BBC2 in 1996 ), Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, ER and The X-Files, as well as some older programmes such as the various Star Trek series, Hill Street Blues, M * A * S * H *, and Lucille Ball's various comedy series.

The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing " innovative " content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent and new technologies.

The channel's editor has described this as adding " something of value " and says it helps the channel " reach a wider audience for our normal parliamentary schedule ".

Since moving to Food Network, Allen has made appearances on many of that channel's programs, including Paula's Party and multiple episodes of The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Dear Food Network, and The Next Food Network Star.

These classic shows made up much of the channel's lineup at the outset, but have been gradually cut back in prominence since the late 1990s.

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.

The Crime and Investigation channel's ' Fred Dinenage Murder Casebook ', put forward the case that the killer could have been Harold Jones, a convicted murderer from Wales.

The channel still airs the few arts-related series aired by Bravo USA ( such as Inside the Actors Studio and Work of Art ), but due to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) regulations which require the channel to still air programming related to arts, Bravo Canada does not air the vast majority of the U. S. channel's reality seriesmost of them have been picked up by other Canadian specialty channels.

The reason given was that it would have been unfair to expect the channel's staff to work long hours over Christmas knowing that the channel would soon be closing.

In 1993 he left the BBC to take up a position as Head of Factual Programmes at Channel 4, having been specifically identified as a " rising star " by the channel's Chief Executive, Michael Grade.

The New York Times reported that Brown had actually been trying to get back to the studios, but CNN didn't go to special lengths to move Mr. Brown into position because Miles O ' Brien, the channel's space expert, was anchoring the unfolding events.

Since the channel's inception, ASN / CTV Two Atlantic has not been permitted to solicit local advertising in the Halifax area, due to ( in the CRTC's opinion ) insufficient support for local advertising.

Ironically, this came just after the CRTC had granted it the right to charge seven cents per subscriber when carried on basic cable, whereas it was previously made available to these viewers free of charge ; the new charge had been expected to help sustain the channel's live programming.

It should be noted that despite the channel's name including the word " Family " ( the network is, as previously mentioned, contractually required to keep the word in its name ), the channel's programming content standards had changed several years earlier after the sale of the channel by International Family Entertainment, and the channel had been airing even some acquired series and movies that contain profanity, violence and sexual content or dialogue after the sale, particularly since being purchased by The Walt Disney Company.

This style had been adopted by the majority of the UKTV channels, with each channel's symbol representing the idents simplified and the channel focus in some ways.

The film says this pervasive bias contradicts the channel's claim of being " Fair and Balanced ", and argues that Fox News has been engaging in what amounts to consumer fraud.

The channel has been hit with a 26-episode curse, which means that all of the channel's original series have been either canceled or put on hiatus after twenty-six episodes.

Although it had been one of the channel's aims right from the start to broadcast both animated and non-animated series, the former currently predominates ( 85 %).