By then, it had been decided that the children's channel and the historical channel would get separate channel spaces.
Further, many cable systems around the country have run out of channel space, at least until new technology lets them expand capacity.
Its channel space was left empty for two months until 15 November, when it was replaced by Eurosport.
Among other things, this option would open up cable to programmers who are now unable to find channel space on cable systems.
Time Warner is in the process of rebuilding its systems and will have additional channel space on most of them by early next year.
They may now occupy only a small fraction of available channel space in the growing universe of entertainment programming.
After winning the auction for the channel space, Vizor announced it would launch its station some time during 2004.
The channel would get its own channel space and broadcast between 4pm and 12am.
The extra channel space, in fact, is intended to replace existing spectrum that broadcasters are to give back to the Government in nine years.
These movies take up a lot of channel space because they are typically shown over and over.