Hi Wayne,
Thanks! That's actually not a channel -- it's just the speaker wire. My wife really enjoys helping me fish wires in the walls

, but the reason we haven't gotten to it yet is that I'm not 100% sure on speaker placement yet. I'm thinking of rotating the whole room 90 degrees. That would get the TV out of that weird angle position in the corner, as well as give my bipolar fronts some symmetry and space.
So when I run them, I think I'd drop them into the crawl space below the living room, and then through the footers and into the interior walls. Any other tricks I should know about? Anything to make the work easier!
Have a great night,
-- Otto