Two equally alluring arrivals under Channel 4's umbrella as part of the new Walter Presents best-of-foreign strand.
The Web channels — under the umbrella name "Animal Planet Live" — are meant for Internet-connected TV sets, so viewers can watch the kitties and penguins on their big screens.
The company has become one of the new powerhouses of games media, with 22 of the top 100 YouTube games channels under its umbrella.
Debt has also worked its way into the market through other channels such as "umbrella trusts", which used to allow banks to lend to wealthy investors without encumbering their balance-sheets.
The City of New York also launched its "one-stop shop" social media channels under the umbrella name of NYC Gov on Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube.
Ms. Fili-Krushel became Mr. Capus's boss last July when Steve Burke, the chief executive of NBC Universal consolidated all of NBC's news units — NBC News, the cable news channels MSNBC and CNBC, and its stake in the Weather Channel — under a new umbrella, the NBCUniversal News Group.
Day launched the network, which has an evolving array of programming and recently added a vlog (video blog) channel, to be "an umbrella" for fans of "The Guild," she said, "so that there would be an evergreen place where they could create communities around videos.
The cable networks unit, an umbrella for channels like Bravo and E!, had no ad revenue growth, but had slight growth overall as a result of higher per-channel subscriber fees.
FXX, which will be aimed at viewers ages 18 to 34 (and the marketers that seek to reach them), will join two other channels under the FX Networks umbrella at the Fox Cable Entertainment Group: FX, which is aimed at viewers ages 18 to 49, and FXM, for FX Movie Channel, which was formerly known as Fox Movie Channel, aimed at viewers 25 to 54.
