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ORGANIZING CHANNELS
Now that you have planned all your channel Networks, playlist and directory channels, it’s
time to organize which channel goes where.
Now, this is again completely up to you, but I would like to give a few tips here to help you.
Everybody is going to have some great channels, and some not so great channels. Don’t
put all your favorite channels in the first 20 slots – spread them out evenly across your
whole channel selection.
Split your channels groups into chunks of 10, eg:
Note: The Illustration above is just an example and not a rule.
Mix your Movie & Network channels a little. Don’t make the first 30 channels only Movie
channels, and the rest Network channels… rather sort by Genre and Content.
Putting all your movie channels after one another makes for boring viewing.
If you have 2 comedy movie channels, 1 comedy Network and 1 comedy Directory
channel, put either the Network or Directory channel between one of the movie channels.
Do this for all genres by splitting up movie channels and adding other types of channels in
between (of the same genre)
Also keep in mind the content that will be played on channels.
Do not put Comedy Central and your Standup comedy channel next to each other, as
Comedy central has its own standup comedy specials.
So, to sum up – don’t add all your favorite channels together, don’t add all the movie
channels together, keep them organized by content but remember not to put channels with
too similar content next to each other.
Play around with your channel sorting until you are 100% happy with the order of all the
channels.
POPULAR NETWORKS
MOVIE CHANNELS
ENTERTAINMENT
COMEDY
KNOWLEDGE
MUSIC
KIDS
ACTION / SCI-FI
SPORT / FITNESS
BRITISH NETWORKS
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
71-80
81-90
91-100
