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 success led to the launch of the UKTV network on 1 November 1997, owned by BBC Worldwide and Flextech, and consisting of three other channels: UK Arena, UK Horizons and UK Style, focusing on the arts, factual and lifestyle programmes respectively.

However, in 2001 BBC One overtook its main rival ITV1 in terms of annual audience share for the first time since the rival channel had launched in 1955, although much of this was down to the success of the channel's daytime television line-up, which had its own Controller in Jane Lush.

The result, 1991's The Idiot Box, was a success for the network, but the channel's budgetary problems prevented them from filming additional seasons, and it was canceled after six episodes.

Cinema fans and critics alike greatly appreciated Halliwell's efforts, with Jeremy Isaacs saying he had made an ' unsurpassed contribution ' to the channel's success.

The channel's success was driven largely by the strength of its eclectic morning show, The Dawn Patrol.

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.

Most of the channel's original programming since 2009 is produced and shown in HD, along with feature films, Disney Channel original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2009.

Grimley became a SCTV fixture, appearing in the various shows, commercials, promos, and " behind-the-scenes " dramas that made up the fictional channel's programming.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).

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.

New title sequences were given to Power Lunch Europe and Europe Tonight to coincide with changes to the form and content of those programmes, but unlike CNBC Asia, no other changes were made to the channel's on air look on this date ( although Capital Connection uses CNBC Asia's new graphics as it is produced by that channel ).

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.

Taped in Toronto, Ontario, a new version of Call for Help made its G4techTV Canada debut on August 16, 2004, and quickly became the channel's highest rated series.

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.

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.

was on one level a continuation of the Gold name used since the channel's creation, but the letters also made up the channels new slogan: ' Go On Laugh Daily '.

MTVX's replacement in 2002 by MTV Jams was explained by the network as being based on demographic trends and industry data that there was a lower demand for a channel devoted to hard rock and heavy metal than there was for hip-hop, rap and R & B, so they made the decision to replace MTVX's channel space with a new format branded with MTV Jams, at the time, the network's branding for music of that type and an actual show on the channel's mother network.

Since 2008, re-runs have begun screening on The Comedy Channel as part of the channel's " Aussie Gold " block of locally made, classic comedy programming.

The miniseries was highly successful for CBS, as 19. 4 million viewers tuned in to the first part of the film and made it the channel's best-rated Sunday night movie in over two years.

The channel made the changes in order to increase its cable carriage outside the channel's traditional coverage area and position itself as a general entertainment channel that programs to the entire nation, not just Chicago and the Midwest.

Initially, the channel's focus was on movies made primarily in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and was formatted similarly to American Movie Classics, with hosted introductions to the movies.

When this channel's ability to conduct electrical current across the cell membrane is inhibited or compromised, either by application of drugs or by rare mutations in some families, it can result in a potentially fatal disorder called long QT syndrome ; a number of clinically successful drugs in the market have had the tendency to inhibit hERG, and create a concomitant risk of sudden death, as a side-effect, which has made hERG inhibition an important antitarget that must be avoided during drug development.

However, the northern channel's harbor was made from its sediment.

Its schedule consists of some locally made programs in Hong Kong as well as news programmes from STAR News, it signed an agreement with CNN International News it allowing its access to that channel's programming.

* United States-The film remains the only theatrical Studio Ghibli feature not yet released on home video in the United States or Canada, although a subtitled version of the film was aired on Turner Classic Movies in January 2006, as part of the channel's month-long salute to Miyazaki and Ghibli.

On October 8, 2007, it was reported that Turner Sports, a division of Time Warner, was to take over the channel's operations, according to Hoopsworld:

The members of No Angels were selected on the RTL2 channel's first series of Popstars, a reality talent show which set about producing a five-piece girl group.

The 2003 to 2007 idents showed channel hopping viewers with their TV set " off stage " being brought to a halt by the appearance of a golden light accompanied by the channel's ident jingle.

The set was redesigned and the colour blue was mixed into the previous channel's colours of red and white.

One of them was of a the logo at the time, a rectangle with a face visible with the channel's name above and below it, changing facial expressions at the open of a curtain set to calliope-type music.

In the present day, most broadcasters use a set of multiple idents built around a certain theme or branding element, often based on the channel's current overall look.

The channel's are set to launch on 1 November 2010.

The channel's contract to broadcast was set to expire on 30 June 2007 ; however Ofcom confirmed that all RSL licences would be extended until the 2012 digital switchover but gave no undertaking that a digital licence would be granted.

The reruns have no set schedule, but are usually aired in marathons during the channel's seasonal events like " Creatureland ", " Inhumanland " and " the 31 Days of Halloween ".

Reruns of The Muppet Show aired in syndication for many years and eventually turned up on TNT from the channel's sign-on in 1988 to 1992.

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!

This D-globe part can be detached and used separately, for example it is used as the channel's bug.

The channel also began to carry break interruptions within shows, featuring promos for its programming ( and eventually promotions for Disney feature film and home video releases ); the reasons for the channel's decision not to include traditional commercial advertising include the possible confusion to younger viewers as to the difference between regular programming and advertisements, and the prevention of license fee increases for acquired feature films ( however while Disney Channel does not air commercial advertisements, it does utilize underwriter sponsorships by companies such as Best Western and Mattel ).

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

In January 2012, Wizards of Waverly Place ended its run on the channel, becoming Disney Channel's longest-running original series with 106 episodes ( the record for the channel's longest-running series was formerly held by That's So Raven, which ran for 100 episodes ).

On January 1, 2003, " TNT Plus " began broadcasting as a substitute for TNT, although it does not appear this was ever reflected in the channel's on-air identity.

The apparent sole purpose of its establishment was to force rate renegotiations to help pay for TNT's new NBA and NASCAR contracts, well before the channel's rates were scheduled to come up for renewal with most cable and satellite providers.

Voyager was the first show broadcast on the new UPN channel, the only series renewed after the channel's first programming season, and its only show to run for seven seasons, making it the UPN's longest running.

As a result, Disney Channel stopped airing both shows except for their holiday episodes, but Disney Channel began airing reruns of Lizzie McGuire in a multi-episode blocks two afternoons each week on September 12, 2009, thus making it the first Disney Channel series to air between 1998 and 2002 to be added back on the schedule after being removed from the channel's lineup.

For the channel's first year on air, a block of programs seen on Toon Disney would air on Monday-Saturday evenings on Disney Channel as a " sneak preview " of the channel for interested subscribers.

At the destination end of the cable or fiber, for each channel, an electronic filter extracts the channel's signal from all the other channels.

Bayou La Batre's seafood industry also serves as a centerpiece for the History channel's reality documentary series Big Shrimpin '.

The idea for a series was reportedly formed when actor Robert Redford, one of the channel's owners and a champion of Native American issues, was informed that Watersmeet Township School's student body ( and varsity basketball team ) was approximately 50 percent Native American in composition.

In addition, eighty-nine additional employees of the NBC networks left with Ailes to help with the new channel's creation for launch, on October 7, 1996.