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Throughout the channel's life, it had a consistent red-on-black theme. All the channel's advertising, the "bumpers", the ident cards and the website used this same theme. In response to a request from the channel's brand manager, there was some discussion on the Anime
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length of 26 episodes. On 1 March 2008, the schedule changed, first to three double-bills, then to two triple-bills. The reasons for the change were unknown and reactions to this change on the channel's forum were generally negative.
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that were previously seen in rotation on the full-time channel, however, in
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changing the red-on-black theme (amongst other suggestions about programming). However, none of the suggestions were taken up by the channel.
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