Beginning Saturday, the 8-year-old channel will be reintroduced as UP.
When it happened, Compaq was trapped in a typical 1999 incumbent's dilemma, beholden to the old sales channel.
Because nothing quite says "hip brand rejuvenation" like associating your channel with an 80-year-old magazine, NBCUniversal today announced the rebranding and makeover of its G4 television channel into "The Esquire Channel" (as in Esquire magazine).
The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn.
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The 57-year-old media mogul, who now runs her own channel, appropriately titled OWN, said her next mission is to continue championing the rights of young girls to a better education.
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Nickelodeon's popular Miranda Cosgrove-star vehicle iCarly averaged 7.4 million viewers in the 6- to 11-year-old demographic in recent months, while the Disney Channel still rides high from its High School Musical 2 premiere, which nabbed a record 18.6 million viewers.
Launched in 1983 as a pay channel, Disney showed ancient films such as Old Yeller and reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club.
She can channel a vampy Vargas girl one day and an old Hollywood screen siren the next.
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The 39-year-old chief executive of ImaginAsian TV, a 24-hour channel aimed at the 12 million ethnic Asians in the U.S., thinks he's capable of producing and distributing for the big screen as well.
It's a hassle, and it gets old quickly after you've installed your fourth or fifth channel -- even typing in login information using the on-screen keyboard and remote would be simpler than having to hit a browser every five minutes.
"It's an astonishing performance for a documentary on Britain's youngest channel, " a spokesman for the five-year-old station said.
Just think, ATSC uses a 15 year old modulation technology and still manages to pump almost 20 Mbps across one channel.
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The old financial system suppressed credit risk, so the banks were happy to channel low-interest loans to inefficient and uncompetitive industries, such as construction and wholesaling.
Tradesy, a three month-old online clothing resale marketplace, is doing just that by opening a channel for brides and bridesmaids to say yes to selling their dresses.
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Disney Channel switched from pay to basic cable, and began replacing its old, recycled acquired programming (think Walt Disney Presents) with original movies and star-making episodic series (think Lizzie McGuire).
The old Severn Bridge on the M48 was shut as gales rushed in from the Bristol Channel.
In 1979, 26-year-old cyclist Bryan Allen flew the man-powered "Gossamer Albatross" across the English Channel.
Users have to download the channel for free from "Wii Shop, " the same place where they buy old video games.
And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.
The screenwriter, Jeffrey Abrams, has a mind that channel-hops from AMC to Nick at Nite: he stuffs the film with old-movie gimmicks and sitcom devices, such as Gibson being able to propose marriage only when his lover is absent.
"The government's unification channel should explain how that money would be used, " says 24-year-old Hwa Seung-hyun.
The bubbly 16-year-old burst onto the scene back in June, when she appeared opposite Joe Jonas in the Disney Channel's heavily hyped and much-watched flick Camp Rock.
Supposedly they found one in Michael Grade, one of the grand old men of the industry, who worked for LWT, the BBC and as chief executive of Channel 4 before quitting television.
Old favourites such as Mock The Week, QI and Springwatch will also remain at the heart of the channel's offer.
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The Old Firm's decision to block the SPL's plan for its own, subscription-based television channel.
The 33-year-old London waitress, who was born in Johannesburg, made it to the last five of the contest on Channel 4's Richard and Judy from 46, 000 entries.
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