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When Fox Business Network begins airing October 15, it will set off a channel shuffle in New York City, its most important market. The shuffle will create two new clusters of channels, one for NBC U networks and the other for Fox’s two news channels, writes Variety.
Fox News Channel will move from channel 46 to 44, putting it adjacent to Fox Business Network, which will get former home of MSNBC, channel 43. MSNBC will move to channel 14, next to CNBC at 15. Sci Fi Channel, displaced by Fox News Channel, will move to 17, and Bravo moves down the dial to channel 18 from 38.
ABC Family, displaced from 14, will move up to 38, A&E moves to 46 from 16, History moves from 17 to 40 and Discovery moves from channel 18 to channel 66.
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