Channels
The Movie Channel operates two multiplex channels and an On Demand service. The Movie Channel also packages the Eastern and Pacific feeds of the main channel and its multiplex services together, giving viewers a second chance to watch the same movie/program three hours earlier or later — depending on their geographic location:
- The Movie Channel: The "flagship" channel; blockbuster and smaller first-run films, independent films and late-night erotica; broadcasts a featured movie around 8 p.m. ET each night and features a horror movie double feature on Saturday nights at 10 p.m. ET as part of "Splatterday on Saturday".
- The Movie Channel Xtra: Secondary channel providing more movie choice for viewers, counterprogrammed with The Movie Channel. Features a nightly feature movie around 9 p.m. ET, and rebroadcasts TMC's "Splatterday" block from the previous week on Friday nights at 10 p.m. ET; formerly known as The Movie Channel 2 from its 1997 launch until 2001.
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Famous quotes containing the word channels:
“Television is becoming a collage—there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.”
—David Hockney (b. 1937)
“Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can’t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do—after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)