Media Money: Why is SMG launching a new linear TV channel?

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The cry of the big broadcasters seems to be: when in doubt, launch another channel. And so it is that SMG wants to launch a new channel by 2009/10, anchored with some 200,000 hours of programming from its video archives.

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