Possibly one of the earliest shortest-lived channels would surely have to be The Comedy Channel, which lasted exactly one year on air.
Almost more of a pop-up channel really, in that it was launched to make use of unexpected availability of rights to some BBC comedy shows in the wake of the BSB merger, although it did try to survive on a more American-led schedule when the British programming went away, and probably would have stuck around if that had been successful enough at the time. Sadly didn't quite make it.
Almost more of a pop-up channel really, in that it was launched to make use of unexpected availability of rights to some BBC comedy shows in the wake of the BSB merger, although it did try to survive on a more American-led schedule when the British programming went away, and probably would have stuck around if that had been successful enough at the time. Sadly didn't quite make it.