Last year the company bought U.K.-based Travel Channel International, and Scripps is starting to produce shows unique to different countries.
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The channel development unit houses its K-cup operations, as well as its Verismo single-cup brewers.
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Gottsch launched a sister channel in the U.K. last year, Rural TV, that is available via satellite in Western Europe.
Saving Face will air on HBO on Sunday morning (check local listings for times), and on Channel 4 in the U.K. in April.
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In September, the network's U.K. affiliate plans to launch a new channel called MTV Flux, which will base its programming on stuff viewers submit.
Channel checks in the U.K. and Canada, where the phones are already available, by Canaccord Genuity have forced them to revise their sales estimates for the new Z10s, which are now expected at only 300, 000 in the February quarter, down from a previous estimate of 1.75 million units.
Kellogg's, for instance, promotes its cereal brand, Special K, in co-productions with the Discovery Health Channel in America.
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Starbucks posted fiscal first quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, showing that it continues to grow in China and has expanded its channel development group, indicating strong sales of K-cups and its own Verismo single-cup brewers.
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Sweeny, president of The Walt Disney Company 's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC television group and Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, is bringing ESPN , the beloved sports channel of many an American football devotee, to the U.K, and dressing it up as ESPN Classic .
Separately, ESPN is considering winding down its ESPN Classic channel in Europe, Middle East and Africa and its non-U.K. ESPN America TV businesses.
"National Hurricane Center" and "Weather Channel" came in fifth and sixth, and terrorist bombings in the U.K. pushed "London" into the No. 9 spot.
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