Discovery Network to launch The Military Channel

[samcurry]

Wahoo

12.09.04 - Shortly after US bombs started dropping on Baghdad in late March 2003, Tim Goodman, the San Francisco Chronicle's television critic, quoted Paul Saffo, a "technology forecaster," who predicted that "It's just a matter of time before we have the War Channel." It took nearly twenty months, but an enterprising network has finally warmed to the idea: Recognizing that the war against terrorism is, as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it over a year ago, a "long, hard slog," Discovery Communications International (DCI) will give the American public a front row seat by re-launching its six-year-old Discovery Wings Channel as the Military Channel.

http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=18219

 

[chcr]

Wahoo

12.09.04 - Shortly after US bombs started dropping on Baghdad in late March 2003, Tim Goodman, the San Francisco Chronicle's television critic, quoted Paul Saffo, a "technology forecaster," who predicted that "It's just a matter of time before we have the War Channel." It took nearly twenty months, but an enterprising network has finally warmed to the idea: Recognizing that the war against terrorism is, as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it over a year ago, a "long, hard slog," Discovery Communications International (DCI) will give the American public a front row seat by re-launching its six-year-old Discovery Wings Channel as the Military Channel.

http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=18219

I heard this a couple of weeks ago. Didn't post it because I figured we already had the History Channel.

 

[Gonz]

It's seems to be little more than a renaming. I like Wings but it's nowhere near are cool & Discovery Science...especially when the space programs are on.

 

[samcurry]

It should be interesting, gonna cover very recent happenings.

Scheduled to debut on January 10, the Military Channel will lead with two seemingly non-controversial premieres: "Delta Company," a two-hour special "chronicl[ing] the route taken by the Delta Company's 1st Tank Battalion last year as it pushed toward Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom," and "Task Force Red Dog," an hour-long special about the Marine Corps reservists "who were called on to establish a base deep in the mountains of Afghanistan as the U.S. military launched its hunt for Osama bin Laden and Taliban leaders in late 2001. "

 

[PostCode]

Unless I find out if Hitler really is dead it ain't worth watchin.













Of course Clinton is still alive.....hmmmmm

 

[tank girl]

Ah, thats nothing - the Iraqi versions been around since the war began

 

[alex]

Nothing like broadcasting to the whole world your military secrets and strategies.

 

[staffrodore]

Great, just what the world needs, another channel/ programme devoted soley to death, destruction and the weapons that make it all possible.

 

[unclehobart]

Great, just what the world needs, another channel/ programme devoted soley to death, destruction and the weapons that make it all possible.

Just think of it as a balance against the 20+ shopping club channels.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Great, just what the world needs, another channel/ programme devoted soley to death, destruction and the weapons that make it all possible.

What're the other channels?