Discovery Wings

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....

:-/
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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.

"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 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

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.

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"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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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

"pittss1c" wrote in message
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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".

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