With the TV, too, you can wade through various programs, as well as search for sports content or ask the app to switch to a certain channel (saying either the channel name or number will work).

ENGADGET

Weather Channel was a name I discussed 2 weeks ago.

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In 2000 ESPN sold its 30% stake in Eurosport when it couldn't convince the pan-Europe channel to incorporate the ESPN name.

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We noticed the change after our Motorola DVR got an update that also made the name of a channel appear under the number when typed in from the remote.

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That's not to say Al Jazeera America, the working name for the new channel, won't have its own biases.

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Now the cable channel said it's changing its name again, but not its identity.

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To sign up cable operators and undercut the perception that the new channel would appeal only to blacks, Johnson shed the original name--Black Entertainment Television--calling it simply BET.

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Even if you've seen "Citizen Kane" 50 times, when you come across it while channel-surfing, you might be hard-pressed to name the scenes on either side of the one you've stumbled on.

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Fox Reality Channel has requested that Katherine does not participate in this interview as there are concerns with her last name and law firm being publicized on the Above the Law blog.

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The ad-supported basic cable and satellite channel, available in about 62 million U.S. homes, did a road test of the new name and found significantly more people said they would watch UP over the alphabet-soup GMC.

NPR: GMC TV Changes Name To UP To Reflect Programming