A two-year rebrand programme, led by current Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham, saw the channels given names such as Dave, Home, Watch and Yesterday.
The potential English region pilot, the report said, would be: "The most likely to demonstrate true contestability, without involving the current Channel 3 incumbent licensee".
In addition to listing the current channel, the unit can be configured to show what is simultaneously playing on as many as three other stations.
"Any privatisation process is also likely to be a complex one, and that complexity could create uncertainty within the current Channel 4 organisation.
In theory, since none of Mr. Shvartsman's current customers exhibit at the Home Shows, there is no current channel conflict.
A huge dam above Baton Rouge now chains the river to its current channel so that it won't seek a shortcut to the Gulf of Mexico and leave the city a sea of mud and desolation.
However, they are still understood to have secured more money than they get under their current Channel 4 contract, understood to be worth around £1m a year, in a new deal with the broadcaster.
Clews and his team are also behind Royal Marines Commando School, the current Channel 4 series about the commando training centre in Devon where raw recruits are turned into battle-ready soldiers in 32 weeks.
Michael Russell, Scotland's culture minister, said today's announcement "gets round, in the short term, the key issue that the current Channel 3 licence areas need to be redrawn".
to the current channel conditions.
