Here the absent sitter makes a `` date '' with a communicator ( someone close to him who is deceased ), asking him to `` come in '' at a certain hour, when a channel will be open for him.

These are used where the vessel is permanently or semi-permanently sited, for example in the case of lightvessels or channel marker buoys.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

Each channel is spaced from the adjacent ones by 8. 33 kHz in Europe, 25 kHz elsewhere.

In a 2D image element, which stores a color for each pixel, additional data is stored in the alpha channel with a value between 0 and 1.

If an alpha channel is used in an image, it is common to also multiply the color by the alpha value, to save on additional multiplications during compositing.

With the existence of an alpha channel, it is possible to express compositing image operations, using a compositing algebra.

and resulting alpha channel value is

For some applications, a single alpha channel is not sufficient: a stained-glass window, for instance, requires a separate transparency channel for each RGB channel to model the red transparency, green transparency, and blue transparency.

Flupirtine is a centrally acting K + channel opener with weak NMDA antagonist properties.

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an " outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace " which is the definition of a sacrament.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

A channel actually consists of two signals: the picture information is transmitted using amplitude modulation on one frequency, and the sound is transmitted with frequency modulation at a frequency at a fixed offset ( typically 4. 5 to 6 MHz ) from the picture signal.

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be at least twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

Signal reception is invariably done via a superheterodyne receiver: the first stage is a tuner which selects a television channel and frequency-shifts it to a fixed intermediate frequency ( IF ).

Cytochrome c is also released from mitochondria due to formation of a channel, the mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel ( MAC ), in the outer mitochondrial membrane, and serves a regulatory function as it precedes morphological change associated with apoptosis.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

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.

The lock of Volta Grimana blocked the old channel, now the Po di Levante, which flows to the Adriatic through Porto Levante.

To create a navigable channel through the Long Sault rapids and to allow hydroelectric stations to be established immediately upriver from Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, Lake St. Lawrence was created through the flooding on 1 July 1958 of six villages and three hamlets in Ontario, now collectively known as " The Lost Villages.

In folklore, and now later in fiction, the metal is said to do many things, from channel magic, to stopping evil ( including warding off or harming vampires and werewolves ), making magic mirrors, to turning water into a Healing Potion ...

SECAM was inaugurated in France on October 1, 1967, on la deuxième chaîne ( the second channel ), now called France 2.

Most of Cartoon Network Studios ' shows from 1996 — 2001 now show as reruns on Cartoon Network's channel for classic TV cartoons, Boomerang.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

The channel is now owned by Disney and run as " ABC Family ".

* the channel is now turned on, so electrons can flow from the source to the drain ( assuming an NMOS transistor )

Some part of this area of water was later called the Vlie ; it probably flowed into the sea through what is now the Vliestroom channel between the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

# Newsworld International ( NWI ), an American cable channel that rebroadcast much of the programming of CBC Newsworld ( now known as CBC News Network ).

Television services are now provided by Televisió Digital Terrestre ( TDT ), which as well as broadcasting the one Andorran channel, broadcasts channels from Spain and France.

Seelonce Feenee ( French: silence fini — silence finished ) means that the emergency situation has been concluded and the channel may now be used normally.

Another regional channel, now gone, was the Canal 8 UCV TV.

" Daria " now airs in reruns on the Canadian music channel MuchMusic weekdays at 3ET / Noon PT.

The channel is now known as " DMAX ", presumably to associate the channel with Discovery.

During its first full year, the channel was available to more than 532, 000 subscribers in the U. S. In April 1984, the channel extended its programming day to 18 hours a day by adding two hours to its late night schedule, with the channel now broadcasting daily from 7 a. m .- 1 a. m. ET / PT.

Though Disney Channel was no longer considered a premium channel, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association had long continued to register the channel among the U. S. premium channels in its subscription base rankings ( however, the channel now appears in the NCTA's list of the top-ranked basic cable channels by number of subscribers ).

There is not a single privately owned TV channel with nationwide coverage.

Between 1986 and 1992 there was an independent third channel but it was jointly owned by Yle and MTV ; only in 1993 did MTV get its own channel.

It was formerly broadcast overnight on free-to-air UHF New Zealand TV channel Prime ( owned by SKY ); this was discontinued in January 2010, reportedly due to an expiring broadcasting license.

All eight television channels are owned by MediaCorp ; its only other competitor, SPH Mediaworks closed its television channel on 1 January 2005.

Television: There are two television operators: the state owned Syrian Television which operates two domestic networks and a satellite channel, broadcasting in Arabic, English, and French and the private Addounia TV.

Prior to his character's appearance on The 11 O ' Clock Show, Baron Cohen had portrayed a similar character named MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume on a show he presented called F2F, which ran on a satellite channel called Talk TV ( owned by Granada Television ).

* Logo ( TV channel ), an LGBT-targeted cable channel owned by Viacom

CNN is owned by parent company Time Warner, and the U. S. news channel is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System.

The poll was conducted by channel 99, the government owned Knesset channel, in advance of the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av on which Jews commemorate the destruction of both the first and second Temples that both stood at this site.

Turner Network Television ( TNT ) is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner that airs a variety of shows, with a focus on dramatic programming.

The channel is owned by Showtime Networks, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation.

Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company.

Then Trio ( owned by NBC ) picked up reruns and showed them from 2002 until the channel went off the air in 2005.

Many of Venevisión's programs can be seen in other countries on Venevisión Continental, Venevision Plus, Venevision International a cable channel completely owned by Venevisión.

WMTY, an evangelical ministry and Public-access television cable TV station, originated in Jasper, Alabama, but began broadcasting in Hamilton in 1995 on TV antenna digital channel 46, and is owned and operated by William E. " Pete " Nichols.

Nome also has three local low-powered stations, K09OW channel 9 and K13UG channel 13 ( both carrying programming from ARCS ), plus K11TH channel 11 ( a 3ABN owned and operated translator ).

The channel passes between the parts of Martham Broad, which is a nature reserve owned by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, to reach West Somerton staithes.

DMOL ( DTT Multiplex Operators Ltd .), a company owned by the operators of the six DTT multiplexes ( BBC, ITV, C4, and Arqiva ) is responsible for technical platform management and policy, including the electronic programme guide and channel numbering.

A subscription-based DTT service, Top Up TV, launched in March 2004 using unused channel space on multiplexes that were owned by parties who, at the time, were not members of the Freeview consortium.