Sentence examples for launched channel from inspiring English sources

In 1981, he set up independent production company Mersey Television and launched Channel 4's Brookside (giving breaks to a host of talented actors and writers, including Jimmy McGovern) which ran for 21 years.

BBC4's acclaimed Danish thriller The Killing was nominated in the international programme category, along with Mad Men, Glee, and Boardwalk Empire, the Martin Scorsese-prohibitionohibition drama which opened Sky's recently launched channel, Sky Atlantic.

As a Border executive, Batey saw the company flourish in the 1980s, when the newly launched Channel 4 commissioned series such as Land of the Lakes (1983), presented by Melvyn Bragg, and the pop music show Bliss (1985-86), and ITV screened its children's productions.

It will have queasy memories of how the ITC's predecessor, the IBA, loftily delayed the launch of TV-am in 1983, to allow the recently launched Channel 4 some breathing space - only for the BBC to nip in with its own Breakfast News service.

Newly launched channel memberships are also expanding their rollout, with the threshold now being lowered from 100,000 to 50,000 subscribers.

Later that year, Zinta started hosting the celebrity-based chat show Up Close & Personal with PZ, shot at her own penthouse in Mumbai and broadcast on the newly launched channel UTV Stars.

Audible, the well-known audiobook company, has launched Channels, its own podcast distribution arm.

It has launched channels based on existing radio and magazine brands: Smash Hits, Kerrang!, Q, Kiss and Magic.

YouTube, Google's online-video site, which is better known for amateur videos of babies and blunders, has launched "channels" that are run by media companies and celebrities.

In fact, many of these apps now enable group chats, and Snapchat has already launched channels, attracting millions of users.

He also helped launch Channel 4 News.