Broadcasters hope that this will mean room for more niche channels.

Bosses said niche channels often get high scores for the specific content.

The service also provides a minimum of 39 digital radio channels and a number of niche channels.

In five years, it will be a serious niche player.

About 4.7 million households rely on private landlords, who often see build to rent as a niche player, catering for hipsters.

Many companies, for example, have entered a market as a niche player and gradually expanded.

The company maintains the changes are in keeping with a long-term strategy of disassociating from the chain image to remain a niche player in the industry.

There will be a third division of a few niche players.

Organics are a niche product that satisfies a niche market.

It's a niche product that's helpful for researchers.

Unfortunately, vegetarian meals have had a reputation of being expensive because they are a niche product.

Despite the rise in popularity, bridging loans remain a niche product because of their high rates.

They remain a niche product for the average consumer.

Channel 12 carried mostly art and cultural programmes marking the inception of niche programming.

The channel offers a diverse selection of television series and niche programming.

In recent years, some of the more eclectic and niche programming has been phased out for a stronger emphasis on jazz and blues.

All three networks saw opportunities to expand into cable television in order to protect and grow their audiences, and they all experimented with niche programming.

Special speakers who specialize in dynamically communicating to their niche segment are brought in for chapels or special events.

In short, basics have become luxuries (the latter a much devalued word); items that were mass have been reclaimed by the niche segment.

The secondary market whilst developing remains a niche segment with virtually all of the trading done at the institution level.

It lends to small businesses serving niche segments of the market, such as agriculture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, packaging and the print industry, which are underserved by the larger banks.

The division intends to target several niche segments.

The ease and low cost of running a web channel has created a glut of niche sites dedicated to diverse hobbies and interests.

Besides niche sites, there are general sites for the online dating beginner.

With the increase in popularity of niche sites, other sites have begun to rank them in order of quality.

Additional specialized niche sites, mainly for games and musicians, are entering the market.

It was a profitable niche business but his heart was not in it.

It ended up being a profitable niche that saw the company through the early 1980s memory market slump.

Nimbler and smaller operators have proved adept at finding very profitable niches.

They have found profitable niches where, once established, they are difficult to challenge.

The peer-to-peer or marketplace lending industry will instead to be constrained to 'profitable niches', the accounting firm said.

Working on campaigns for alternative energy he spotted a niche: solar.

Spotting a niche in the market for low-cost ski holidays, he set up a firm offering package deals for budget travellers.

She spotted a niche opportunity to solve problems and made permanent changes to how those were dealt with.

Some of the high-end menswear labels have already spotted a niche and their designers are creating shirts that are meant to be worn without a tie.

He described it as an 'opportunistic' move by a specialist local publisher that had spotted a niche of strong demand for local advertising in an underserved community.

They have carved out a unique niche as genre-hopping writer-performers with a taste for the macabre and the smutty.

Banking occupies a unique niche in the economy.

From this, we might reach the conclusion that our wildlife occupies an unusual if not unique niche in our national identity.

The album keeps away for popular commercial music but creates a unique niche for itself with genuine hard work and talent reflecting in the songs.

Plentiful lava flows from the 19th century provide unique niches for vegetative and soil growth in the region.