Cooking channel: Six ate Nine: pun intended Eighty-Six: kitchen-talk for taking an item off the menu. Could alternatively be used for a reruns channel (i.e. no longer on the TV menu).
Maybe a channel called SixS for “success”? Business? General programming?
I’m not the best at mocking, as I’m sure you’ve noticed it doesn’t consider the safe spaces etc but here is a rough idea and continuation of my suggested 9NEWS Breakfast show.
and that’s how I would try and distinguish it from the tarnished Today Show brand. I still don’t know why they dropped “National” all those years ago. It was authoritative.