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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. :-/ 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 |
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