Aviation TV

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:59:27 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:


"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.


The "Wings Channel", *Renamed* the Military Channel had a fair amount
of good stuff to begin, but after about 6 months or so it was the same
old stuff again and again with just an occasional new show.

There is some on the outdoor Channel (153), and some on OLN AND Vs
which appear to share ( channel151)? They are almost adjacent on the
tuner have some aviation related stuff. Also there is "The Men's
Channel" which has "Sport Pilot" (Ch 218, DISH Network) which
usually covers a couple of airplanes, and/or pilots in each 30 minute
segment. They have a new show each week and it is repeated a couple
of times during the week. One segment is 10:30 tonight (Saturday)

They are not limited to just "Sport Pilots", but cover every thing
from flying parachutes to the F-22 Raptor. The had one with quite a
bit on Van's aircraft and a relatively long interview. The Javelin was
featured a few weeks back. Last week was old war birds and a segment
on the Thunderbirds.

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.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com