On one hand, Compaq struggled to compete in the PC market with the Dell Computer Corporation, which sold directly to buyers, avoiding the dealer channel and its markup, and built each machine to order to keep inventories and costs at a minimum.

The hourly news bulletins were broadcast on Sunrise Radio's channel on the Astra satellite in a move designed to serve smaller commercial, RSL and hospital stations who struggled to afford the expensive standard IRN satellite equipment.

Then, in 1958, WVUE, a channel 12 station in Wilmington which had lost its NBC affiliation and then struggled as an independent, went off the air.

KMSP-TV ( channel 9 ), the Twin Cities ' ABC affiliate since 1961, had long struggled in the ratings.

Sales of the re-branded Cisco product fell below expectations, and Interlink struggled to rebuild its own sales channel.

From the beginning, the channel struggled with disappointing ratings.

However, although channel 66 received a sizable amount of viewers, the station struggled to retain them for long periods of time, and by mid-1986 the station's advertising sales were insufficient to ensure the station's long-term viability ; additionally, attempts to broaden the station's programming to include shows on sports and other topics proved unsuccessful.

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.

This image's alpha channel falls off to zero at its base.

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.

Her contributions are mainly on the roles of antibodies directed against ion channel at the nerve-muscle junction in the pathogenesis of above mentioned diseases.

The 3 dB bandwidth of an electronic filter or communication channel is the part of the system's frequency response that lies within 3 dB of the response at its peak, which in the passband filter case is typically at or near its center frequency, and in the lowpass filter is near 0 hertz.

For instance, the baseband model of the signal would require a lowpass filter with cutoff frequency of at least to stay intact, and the physical passband channel would require a passband filter of at least to stay intact.

Several proteins coded for in the tra or trb locus seem to open a channel between the bacteria and it is thought that the traD enzyme, located at the base of the pilus, initiates membrane fusion.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.

The BBC News at Ten began simulcasting on the channel on 30 January 2006 as part of the Ten O ' Clock Newshour, followed by extended sport and business news updates.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

Other programming produced solely by the BBC News channel includes the BBC News at Five with Huw Edwards ( including Film 24 with Mark Kermode at 17: 45 on Fridays, Sportsday ( at 18: 45, except on Fridays and Saturdays when it is from 18: 30, plus 22: 30 every weekday ) and Newswatch ( Friday 20: 45, Saturday 07: 45 ).

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 ).

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

Between 01: 00 and 06: 00 UK Time ( UKT ) the channel simulcasts with its sister channel, BBC World News, for the first 25 minutes of each hour with world news shown all through the simulcasts.

The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).

Philip Hayton and Anna Jones were the first two presenters on the set, the relaunch of which had been put back a week due to previous power disruptions at Television Centre where the channel is based.

With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

The first female on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary.

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

The first inlet turned out to be a " very narrow and intricate channel, which ... abounded with rocks above and beneath the surface of the water ".

In Sweden only the first Two seasons was dubbed in Swedish and aired on Swedish channel TV3 ( 2001-2002 ) ( Later rerun on swedish version of fox kids 2002-2004 ), it was a stright dub from the Americen dub.

* Extreme Sports Channel, the worlds first TV channel dedicated to these sports founded by Al Gosling

The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616.

In 2002, Lineker took on his first acting role, barring roles playing himself in films such as Bend It Like Beckham or in the adapted-for-television stage play An Evening with Gary Lineker, as the voice of Underground Ernie on the BBC's children's channel, CBeebies.

After such mass disconnections, a channel may be left without users, allowing the first rejoining user to recreate the channel and gain operator status.

The Portuguese also began a channel of trade with the Japanese, becoming the first recorded Westerners to have visited Japan.

Such a subject I conceived myself to have found in a stream, traced from its source in the hills among the yellow-red moss and conical glass-shaped tufts of bent, to the first break or fall, where its drops become audible, and it begins to form a channel ".

The first video played on that channel was " Video Killed the Radio Star ", following in the footsteps of MTV.

If an event is sent on two channels at once, the event on the higher-numbered channel cannot transmit until the first one is finished, and so is delayed by 1ms.

The very first Nieuwe Waterweg — a breach through the dunes at Hook of Holland — was only long, but in around 1877 the channel was made much larger and wider and the current Nieuwe Waterweg was created.