Personally, I feel a channel is the people in it, not the name.
If "This channel is moving to JFA2010" is placed in the MotD, then all the active players will join he new channel and nothing is lost. It'll be the same channel with the same people whether it's called "Justice for All" or "JFA2010"
If we move and the channel is still full, then we know we're doing a good job and we're just full of active players!
Seems like a win-win senario to me!
-babs