In 2005 the company helped launch PBS KIDS Sprout, a cable television channel geared toward preschool children.
Investors are putting up $30 million to $100 million to create an advertising-supported channel geared for cable systems that have expanded digitally.
G4, another cable channel geared toward 18- to 34-year-old men, presents awards within its daily "X-Play" video game show.
This is also Black History Month, and Centric, the BET channel geared toward adults, has an array of offerings, including, on Sunday at 10 p.m., "OBAMA IN GHANA," a documentary about the president's emotional trip there in 2009.
London Live, the London Evening Standard local TV channel gearing up for launch next year, is to air repeats of scripted shows including Spaced, Twenty Twelve, Smack the Pony, The Shadow Line and Peep Show.
Both WE: Women's Entertainment, the cable channel geared toward female viewers, and BridesDecide.com, a site for recently engaged and newly married women, are starting comprehensive efforts to educate women about the election — and, in the process, to raise their brands' profiles.
Hariri, majority owner of Lebanon's Future Television, and United Arab Emirates-based Dubai Media City, are launching Zen Television today, a channel geared toward the Middle East's burgeoning 16-year-old to 35-year-old age group.
Names signed by Karmazin's company include Howard Stern, due to start at the orbital broadcaster in January 2006, when his contract ends with Karmazin's previous employer, Viacom ; cult balladeer Jimmy Buffett and Martha Stewartt, who'll help craft a 24-hour channel geared toward the home.
A year ago, Disney attempted to replace SOAPnet with a channel geared for young children called Disney Junior.
An offshoot of the existing FX channel geared towards comedies, FXX will launch on Monday, September 2 at 7 a.m. ET and will be carried in 72 million homes.
Broadly, VICE's channel geared towards women and the LGBTQ community, gets a huge amount of traffic from astrological features and horoscopes.
