Discovery Wings

[Dallas]

I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the mid
90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.

I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
Channel is now in my channel line up.

What a POS!

My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered Discovery
Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.

Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.

:-/

--
Dallas

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

Dallas > wrote in
:

>
> I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In
> the mid 90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any
> time of the day and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up
> into the tier and out of my channel range. Then it became the
> Military Channel.
>
> I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the
> Military Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
> What a POS!
>
> My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery
> Wings channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew
> considered Discovery Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had
> high ratings.
>
> Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
> Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some
> network genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
>:-/
>

I thin kthey just ran out of programs. I started seeing rerun after
rerun on it before it died.



Bertie

[RNR[_3_]]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:53:25 -0500, Dallas
> wrote:

>
>I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the mid
>90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
>and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
>out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>
>I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
>Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
>What a POS!
>
>My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
>channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered Discovery
>Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>
>Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
>Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
>genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
>:-/


I miss that channel also. I think the problem is that you and your
friends and me and my friends (who also loved it) are part of a subset
of television viewers that is much too small to invest in the channel
itself and the new programming that was required to keep it going.
We're just not a big enough audience.
RNR

[Larry Dighera]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:43:49 -0400, RNR > wrote in
>:

>On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:53:25 -0500, Dallas
> wrote:
>
>>
>>I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the mid
>>90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
>>and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
>>out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>>
>>I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
>>Channel is now in my channel line up.
>>
>>What a POS!
>>
>>My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
>>channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered Discovery
>>Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>>
>>Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
>>Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
>>genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>>
>>:-/
>
>
>I miss that channel also. I think the problem is that you and your
>friends and me and my friends (who also loved it) are part of a subset
>of television viewers that is much too small to invest in the channel
>itself and the new programming that was required to keep it going.
>We're just not a big enough audience.
>RNR


While not an entire TV channel, there is program devoted to GA:

http://www.sportpilottv.com/
SPORT PILOT TV - THE SHOW

Click to View Promo Video

Welcome to Sport Pilot TV! Come along and join us on a series of
exciting and informative adventures. Sport Pilot TV is a weekly
program that puts you in the flying seat of all kinds of aircraft
- conventional, sport pilot category, and experimental.

[Gig 601Xl Builder]

Dallas wrote:
> I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the mid
> 90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
> and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
> out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>
> I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
> Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
> What a POS!
>
> My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
> channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered Discovery
> Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>
> Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
> Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
> genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
> :-/
>


Unfortunately "everybody you knew" were not enough to keep the channel
going. During the last year or so most of the programing was military
related anyway so they just added guns, tanks and ships to the
programing about fighters and bombers.

I knew the channel would never be a true channel about airplanes when
they didn't make a deal with EAA to cover OSH live 24/7.

[Gig 601Xl Builder]

Larry Dighera wrote:

>
> While not an entire TV channel, there is program devoted to GA:
>
> http://www.sportpilottv.com/
> SPORT PILOT TV - THE SHOW
>
> Click to View Promo Video
>
> Welcome to Sport Pilot TV! Come along and join us on a series of
> exciting and informative adventures. Sport Pilot TV is a weekly
> program that puts you in the flying seat of all kinds of aircraft
> - conventional, sport pilot category, and experimental.
>
>

To bad that at least for my area the stations and times listed on the
guide are wrong. I'll have my TiVo search for it tonight.

[Darkwing]

"Dallas" > wrote in message
...
>
> I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the
> mid
> 90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
> and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
> out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>
> I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
> Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
> What a POS!
>
> My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
> channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered
> Discovery
> Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>
> Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
> Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
> genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
> :-/
>
> --
> Dallas

I had a C-band dish and switched over to DirecTV because of the Discovery
Wings channel (C-band was dying a slow agonizing death anyway). Had the
DirecTV for maybe 6 months before it became the military channel. I miss it,
the show where they build a homebuilt coptor was pretty cool to watch.

[Dallas]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 06:55:28 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

> I thin kthey just ran out of programs. I started seeing rerun after
> rerun on it before it died.

Yeah, but I could watch those reruns over and over without getting tired of
them.

[grumble, grumble]

--
Dallas

[Dallas]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:43:49 -0400, RNR wrote:

> We're just not a big enough audience.

And yet they find an audience large enough use up their bandwidth for
important favorites such as:

Free Speech TV
Health and Human Services
HorseRacing TV
RFD-TV
University of Washington TV
Florida Education Channel
CoLours TV
Angel One
3ABN
Alma Vision Hispanic Network
etc....

:-/
--
Dallas

[pittss1c]

Dallas wrote:
> I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the mid
> 90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
> and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
> out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>
> I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
> Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
> What a POS!
>
> My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
> channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered Discovery
> Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>
> Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
> Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
> genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
> :-/
>
It switched before I got a chance to pitch my new shows for the channel.

I bet you could pick a new airport every week, and start opening hangar
doors and ask about local aviation. You would see some really neat
aircraft/projects ant it seems every area has local aviation "heros" you
could get some cool stories from. You could probably get over 20 good
episodes from my state alone. A multi-year series aught to be easy.

Also, I think a show where you go from flyin to flyin interviewing
people would be cool. (No, I am not talking about Oshkosh)


Mike

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

Dallas > wrote in
:

> On Wed, 14 May 2008 06:55:28 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>
>> I thin kthey just ran out of programs. I started seeing rerun after
>> rerun on it before it died.
>
> Yeah, but I could watch those reruns over and over without getting
> tired of them.
>
> [grumble, grumble]
>

To be honest, so could I. Some of them, anyway.



Bertie

[Dallas]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 12:49:26 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

> While not an entire TV channel, there is program devoted to GA:

Heck, I would settle for the Discovery Channel running a few episodes each
week like they used to do.


--
Dallas

[Dallas]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:25 -0500, pittss1c wrote:

> Also, I think a show where you go from flyin to flyin interviewing
> people would be cool.

Last night PBS aired a documentary following an American Muslim getting his
pilot's licence. (I'm pleased to say that being a Muslim turned out to be
a complete non-factor in the show.)

But, following him and his family as he made his way to his PP-SEL was very
entertaining. I'm sure you could make several episodes following the
adventures of good and bad students as they go for their certificate.

There's lots of easy, low cost production material that could fill up an
aviation channel and keep airplane heads like us entertained.

--
Dallas

[Blanche]

And I'm still trying to understand how/why ECW is on the SF channel...
oh, wait...pro wrestling *IS* science fiction.


silly me.

[John T]

"Dallas" > wrote in message

>
> But, following him and his family as he made his way to his PP-SEL
> was very entertaining. I'm sure you could make several episodes
> following the adventures of good and bad students as they go for
> their certificate.

"American Pilot" has a certain ring to it, eh?

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Blanche > wrote:
> And I'm still trying to understand how/why ECW is on the SF channel...
> oh, wait...pro wrestling *IS* science fiction.
>
>
> silly me.

And it just gets better! Doctor friends I have are estatic that
their favourite channel is going away! The Discovery Health channel is
going to become the Oprah Channel! They can't wait!! And neither can
I!!
</sarcasm>

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[Larry Dighera]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 04:02:51 GMT, A Guy Called Tyketto
> wrote in
>:

>And it just gets better! Doctor friends I have are estatic that
>their favourite channel is going away! The Discovery Health channel is
>going to become the Oprah Channel! They can't wait!! And neither can
>I!!
></sarcasm>


Ain't the free-market grand? :-(

[Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]]

"Larry Dighera" > wrote in message
...
>
> Ain't the free-market grand? :-(
>

Yes, it is.

[CodyDawg]

You have EBWC-TV??? Sweet!

"Dallas" > wrote in message
...
>
> I've been an "Expanded Basic Cable" guy for the last 20 years.. In the
> mid
> 90's Discovery Wings was included and I could watch it any time of the day
> and be highly entertained. Then they moved it high up into the tier and
> out of my channel range. Then it became the Military Channel.
>
> I recently up dated my AV system to join this millennium and the Military
> Channel is now in my channel line up.
>
> What a POS!
>
> My question is, does anyone have the back story of how the Discovery Wings
> channel became the Military Channel? Everybody I knew considered
> Discovery
> Wings a fantastic channel and I assumed it had high ratings.
>
> Now I've got 250 channels including such winners as the Extreme Basket
> Weaving Channel. I can't for the life of me figure out why some network
> genius can't see the value of bringing back Discovery Wings.
>
> :-/
>
> --
> Dallas

[pittss1c]

John T wrote:
> "Dallas" > wrote in message
>
>> But, following him and his family as he made his way to his PP-SEL
>> was very entertaining. I'm sure you could make several episodes
>> following the adventures of good and bad students as they go for
>> their certificate.
>
> "American Pilot" has a certain ring to it, eh?
>
that has a nice ring to it.
I was actually thinking something like Ramp Rats or Airport Bums

[Darkwing]

"pittss1c" > wrote in message
...
> John T wrote:
>> "Dallas" > wrote in message
>>
>>> But, following him and his family as he made his way to his PP-SEL
>>> was very entertaining. I'm sure you could make several episodes
>>> following the adventures of good and bad students as they go for
>>> their certificate.
>>
>> "American Pilot" has a certain ring to it, eh?
>>
> that has a nice ring to it.
> I was actually thinking something like Ramp Rats or Airport Bums


They are already called "skydivers".