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Old October 5th 06, 02:27 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
pilot451
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Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?

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Old October 5th 06, 02:29 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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pilot451 wrote:
Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?


Much of the Wings channel got folded in the Military channel, I thought.

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Old October 5th 06, 04:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Robert M. Gary
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DireTV was one of the big providers for that network, they switched to
"The Military Channel" about a year ago. It shows much of the same
programming though.

-Robert

pilot451 wrote:
Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?


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Old October 6th 06, 02:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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The only channel that still has aviation related stuff on it around here is
the "Outdoor Channel", go figure.
It is an excellent weekly program called "Wings to Adventure".
They have been on for a couple of seasons and have plans to produce DVD's of
previous seasons.
http://www.wingstoadventure.com/

David - KGYH

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Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?



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Old October 6th 06, 04:29 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jay B
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pilot451 wrote:
Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?


Productions geared toward the flying community would be awesome but
unfortunately, we're a small percentage of a fraction of a niche of the
population.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

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Old October 6th 06, 04:59 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Kingfish" wrote in message
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pilot451 wrote:
Does anyone know of any more plans for a Discovery Wings-type channel?
It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying. Thoughts?


Much of the Wings channel got folded in the Military channel, I thought.


Not that Wings covered aviation very well anyway. If I ran a network named
Wings I think I'd probably just move the whole damn operation to OSH once a
year for the whole week of Airventure.


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Old October 6th 06, 05:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"pilot451" wrote:

It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying.


There wasn't before; why does it seem so now?


--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM


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Old October 7th 06, 12:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"pilot451" wrote:

It just seems like there would still be enough interest to support a TV
channel devoted just to flying.


There wasn't before; why does it seem so now?


If there would have been more productions, enough productions, so that they
didn't have to recycle the same shows month after month, there would have been a
chance of it surviving, IMHO.

To put it simply, they drove that channel into the ground, by not investing in
new programming. It would not have been that hard to pull off, and the result
of not keeping current was very predictable.

How many here could sit and think of 50 new series titles and schemes, in the
period of a couple hours? I know I could.
--
Jim in NC


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Old October 7th 06, 02:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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How many here could sit and think of 50 new series titles and schemes, in

the
period of a couple hours? I know I could.


I did. Then after Wings folded into Military, I filmed some fishing episodes
instead.

D.


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Old October 7th 06, 01:23 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jay B
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Morgans wrote:

If there would have been more productions, enough productions, so that they
didn't have to recycle the same shows month after month, there would have been a
chance of it surviving, IMHO.

To put it simply, they drove that channel into the ground, by not investing in
new programming. It would not have been that hard to pull off, and the result
of not keeping current was very predictable.

How many here could sit and think of 50 new series titles and schemes, in the
period of a couple hours? I know I could.
--
Jim in NC


All we need now is several million in financing and we're in business.

Jay B

 




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