She says she is comfortable Channel-straddling: it means she has stranger status wherever she is, an extra edge of mystery.
Harris, a charismatic critic whose prose boasts an appealing, sullen machismo, is perhaps most comfortable when channelling his malaise into research.
But it became clear earlier this year that she was not entirely comfortable with the channel's shift toward crime and tabloid news, in particular the Casey Anthony murder trial.
"I was fired from WABC Radio back in the day," she said, "and they told me, 'Do not come back in this building tomorrow.' " Ms. Behar was hired by HLN in 2009 as part of an expansion of its prime-time lineup, but it became clear last spring that she was not entirely comfortable with the channel's shift toward crime and tabloid news, particularly the Casey Anthony murder trial.
But he was also comfortable with back channels, meeting officials secretly at the White House or slipping into the State Department garage in his limousine for delicate talks upstairs.
Colleges and universities have only recently become comfortable with electronic channels as a valuable way to deliver transcripts, because of previous concerns over security and having official "seals" to prove authenticity, and so on.
The channels they like to use and those with which they are most comfortable are not the channels on which insurance companies try to reach them.
In other words, yes, make people comfortable by starting with channels, but utilize the unique network effect of YouTube, which has made it the No. 1 music service for teens and so many other superlatives.
This was music for a short-attention-span generation brought up on hip-hop, noisy rock, and channel surfing, as comfortable with street talk as with TV-sitcom references.
If you look at the top 10 deals by number of purchases, local merchants appear to be getting more comfortable with the Groupon marketing channel.
Comcast, which controls NBC, naturally keeps NBCSN in a comfortable niche far from sports-channel Siberia.
