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4 unusual facts about channel


Channel-Port aux Basques

Regular domestic air service is provided by Provincial Airlines year round, while Sunwing provides service to Toronto's Pearson International Airport from May to October, and Air Saint-Pierre offers summer service to the French colonies off Newfoundland's south coast.

Grand Bruit, Newfoundland and Labrador

Located east of Channel-Port aux Basques, Grand Bruit was experiencing depopulation related to changing economic and demographic conditions in rural Newfoundland, in particular the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fisheries in the early 1990s.

HVDC Cross-Channel

Because the first installation did not meet increasing requirements, it was replaced in 1975–1986 by a new HVDC system with a maximum transmission rating of 2,000 MW between France and Great Britain, for which two new converter stations were built in Sellindge (UK) and in Bonningues-lès-Calais (Les Mandarins station), near Calais, (France).

Super-channel

The approach being brought to market by companies such as Infinera, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Ciena makes use of multiple laser sources.


Andrea Moller

For the past six years, Andrea has been a part of the world’s best women's paddler team, Team Bradley, the seven-time winner (as of 2012) of Na Wahine O Ke Kai race, the challenging 42-mile channel crossing women’s OC6 - six-man canoe race.

Baracka Flacka Flames

On January 26, 2011, the channel released Hit 'em Up, a parody of Tupac Shakur's Hit 'Em Up. On December 21, 2011, I Run the Military was released.

British Rail Class 319

On 10 December 1993 they travelled through the Channel Tunnel to Calais-Fréthun and back with a party of invited guests, after the construction consortium TransManche Link (who were responsible for the construction of the Tunnel) had transferred responsibility for operations and management over to Eurotunnel.

Calling All the Monsters

"Calling All the Monsters" is the second single released from the soundtrack A.N.T. Farm (2011), for the television series of the same name on Disney Channel.

Channel 23

DWAC-TV, the flagship television station of ABS-CBN Sports+Action channel 23 in Metro Manila, Philippines

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta

The marsh's large lagoon is connected to the Caribbean Sea via a narrow strait (the La Barra channel) located between the town of Pueblo Viejo and the city of Ciénaga.

Count von Count

His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

Cross-promotion

Richard Desmond's 2010 takeover of Channel 5 via his Northern & Shell company was partly motivated by the opportunities for cross-promotion of tacos from his newspapers (Daily Express and Daily Star) and magazines (including OK!); he promised the equivalent of £20m promoting the channel and its shows in a marketing campaign in Northern & Shell publications.

Ed Stradling

In late 2012 he was reported by Doctor Who Magazine as having left the Doctor Who DVD range and working for the Loaded TV channel.

El Trece

During the self-styled National Reorganization Process, the last military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 - the channel's administration was handed over to the Argentine Navy, a condition maintained until 1983, when democratic rule was restored.

Eric Metaxas

Metaxas has been featured as a cultural commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel; and has discussed his own books on The History Channel, C-Span's Book TV, the Glenn Beck Program, and Huckabee.

Frogcircus

That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.

Georgia Guidestones

The monument is also featured in the "New World Order" episode of the History Channel series America Unearthed.

Jack Blumenau

As the Bell Rings (2007 episodes O Romeo and A Touch of Class, Disney Channel UK) - Tinker

K26KJ

Please note that since 1984 until June 12, 2009, the analog channel 26 was occupied by th full-power Univision-affiliate KINT-DT, the another station now broadcasts on digital channel 25 (Virtual Channel 26.1).

KBQR

KQSL, a television station (channel 8) in Fort Bragg, California, United States known as KBQR from October 2010 through May 2011

Kenny Senior

Kenny Senior is a fictional character from the Channel 4 sitcom Phoenix Nights, portrayed by Archie Kelly.

KHCV

KFFV, a television station (channel 44) licensed to serve Seattle, Washington, United States, which held the call sign KHCV from 1999 to 2009

KJCQ

KJCQ-LP, a low-power television station (channel 41) licensed to serve Helena, Montana, United States

Klaus Flaming

He began his radiocareer in YLE, in 1988, as personnel of the Finnish radio channel Radiomafia.

KPAR

KTXS-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/20 digital) licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KPAR-TV from 1956 to 1966

KPXO-TV

Due to limited feed abilities, KPXO is not available over-the-air or on cable in many other areas of the state; as a result, the "Big Island" of Hawaii at one point received Ion and its predecessor networks via KLEI (channel 6), even though the entire state of Hawaii is a single television market.

KROC-FM

In the 1950s, the owners launched a television station (KROC-TV), though that is now operated separately by Quincy Newspapers as KTTC channel 10.

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

KXPI-LD

This signal can be seen on UHF channel 36.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

Mimicry Dayanand

In 2008, Dayanand, along with Sihi Kahi Chandru, judged a show to unearth comic talents called "Haasyada Rasa" on Kasturi, a Kannada channel.

One Tree Hill, Honor Oak

Before the end of the eighteenth century, the East India Company built a semaphore station on the top of the hill to signal when ships were sighted in the Channel, and it was used as a beacon point by the Admiralty during the Napoleonic Wars.

SA10

One of Systems Concepts' major products, the SA-10, was an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.

Sarah Kunstler

At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

SET International

SET International is a satellite cable channel operated by Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched on March 2000, but only broadcasts abroad.

Steve Rushton

His first major boost of his career was with Disney Channel's original series The Suite Life on Deck to which he sang the opening theme, "Livin' the Suite Life" Shortly after, he released his first single "Emergency" which was included in the soundtrack for the Disney movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

Syntext Serna

Serna XML Editor offers multi-channel publishing, including out-of-the-box publishing to HTML and external publishing to PDF with FOP, XEP, or Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

Televisora de Oriente

Televisora de Oriente, or TVO, is a Venezuelan television station that can be seen in the Venezuelan states of Anzoátegui (channels 5 and 13), Monagas (channel 32), Nueva Esparta (channel 8), and Sucre (channel 8).

The Playboy Radio Show

The Playboy Radio Show is a Playboy TV reality series that follows the weekly antics of the various shows on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio channel.

The Sweet Life

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, an American children's television series that airs on the Disney Channel

Try a Little Something New

"Try a Little Something New" is a song from the Welcome to Pooh Corner Cable TV series which premiered in 1983 on the Disney Channel (which was also that channel's inaugural season).

WBGR

WBGR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to Bangor/Dedham, Maine, United States

WBKM

WBKM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 46) licensed to Chana, Illinois, United States

WDCO

WDCO-LP, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, which simulcasts WDCN-LP Washington, D.C.

WFSU

WFSU-TV, a television station (channel 11 analog/32 digital) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

WGCT

WTBT-LD, a low-power television station (channel 45) licensed to serve Tampa, Florida, which held the call sign WGCT-LP or WGCT-LD from 2007 to 2012

WJMY

WJMY-TV Channel 20, a defunct station that was to broadcast on channel 20 in the Detroit market

WJZ

WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/digital) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ-TV from 1948 to 1953

WKOB-LD

CBS, which ultimately selected Channel 33 for their post-transition operations, did not object and signed a Waiver Of Consent, ultimately accepting whatever interference a WKOB-LP operation over Channel 2 would have presented to WCBS-TV.

WMNS-LP

However, after CBS programming moved from WVXF to the cable-only channel TV2, WMNS-LP now provides over-the-air coverage for TV2.

WSYR

WSYR-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/17 digital) licensed to Syracuse, New York, United States

WVHF

WWJS-CD channel 15, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, formerly used the call sign WVHF


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