channel vs release

channel and release both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
channel	Yes	No	Yes	No
release	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, release is a hyponym of channel; that is, release is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than channel:

Other hyponyms of channel include bring, convey, fetch, get, project, propagate, translate, turn, send, send out.

channel (noun)	release (noun)
a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors	activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through	the act of liberating someone or something
a television station and its programs	the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance	the act of allowing a fluid to escape
a path over which electrical signals can pass	a formal written statement of relinquishment
(often plural) a means of communication or access	(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels	merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)	a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
	an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
	a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
	euphemistic expressions for death
	a process that liberates or discharges something

channel (verb)	release (verb)
send from one person or place to another	generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
direct the flow of	eliminate (a substance)
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission	make (assets) available
	prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
	release, as from one's grip
	let (something) fall or spill from a container
	release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
	part with a possession or right
	grant freedom to; free from confinement
	make (information) available for publication