TV watchers, meet the five channels you selected to add to the Today section’s prime-time program grid: NHK World, Smithsonian, Nat Geo Wild, Science and History 2.

As a bonus, we found room to add a sixth favorite: Ovation.

Those six channels join 15 other new ones that appear on the expanded grid on the back page of the Today section, effective Monday. The others: IFC, FXM, Sundance, Flix, More Max, Epix, Fox Sports 1, PAC-12, MeTV, DIY, KBS, Cooking, Logo, BET and TV Japan.

We asked readers to help us pick five new channels, and almost 300 of you emailed or wrote in expressing your top choices. In all, readers touted 137 different channels. NHK World, offering news and other programming in English from the Japanese broadcaster, was the overwhelming favorite with nearly twice as many votes as the No. 2 pick, Smithsonian.

While not new to the prime-time grid, the Hallmark Movie Channel now appears as HM&M, reflecting its new name, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Also new: asterisks denoting channels with different showtimes for Hawaiian Telcom customers.

Although 21 channels are being added to the program grid that runs Monday through Saturday, the type size and font will not change. Also take note that the smaller format of Sunday’s TV Week means no channels are being added to that pull-out publication. (And, we do not control the actual programming of TV shows, so please don’t ask us to bring back “Gunsmoke”! Contact the networks or your cable provider with questions and comments about TV shows.)

Like other newspapers in the U.S., we subscribe to a service that compiles the television schedules from the various networks and creates ready-to-print viewing guides. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s TV schedules come from Ottawa-based TV Media, which supplies more than 400 media outlets with daily or weekly listings.

To contact TV Media, call 800-205-7471 or email info@tvmedia.ca.