DoD News Channel

DoD News Channel
Launched May 14, 2004
Closed April 17, 2015
Owned by Defense Media Activity
Slogan Serving Those Who Serve
Headquarters Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Formerly called The Pentagon Channel (2004–14)

DoD News Channel was a television channel broadcasting military news and information for the 2.6 million members of the U.S. Armed Forces. It was widely available in the United States as a standalone television channel, or as part of programming on local PEG cable television channels. It could be viewed FTA in most Central and Western European countries (from Eurobird 9A at 9.0° East), Africa, the Americas and most of Asia via satellite, and globally via the Internet at DoDNews.Defense.gov. DoD News Channel was free, in the public domain, and accessible 24/7 to all U.S. cable and satellite providers.

The channel was founded in 2004 as The Pentagon Channel. On July 8, 2014, The Pentagon Channel was rebranded as the DoD News Channel. The channel ceased operations on April 17, 2015. However, content will still be produced for the American Forces Network and the website Defense.gov.[1]

Programming

The networks programming included Department of Defense news briefings, Military news, Interviews with top Defense officials, Short stories about the work of the United States military, and Military Lifestyle programming.

As The Pentagon Channel, the channel carried:

The Pentagon Channel also showed programming direct from the services such as, Freedom Journal Iraq, Freedom Watch Afghanistan, Army Newswatch, AFN Korea Nightly News, AFN Europe Report, Pacific Report, Eye on Nellis, The American Veteran, Air Force Space Today, In Step with Fort Riley and On Track with Ft. Hood, as well as live Department of Defense briefings and roundtables.

With the change to DoD News Channel, most of the non-news programming was either dropped or de-emphasized.

Podcasting

In April 2006, the Pentagon Channel launched its podcasting initiative. Currently the Pentagon Channel offers 27 podcasts via the iTunes Store and its website.

American Forces Press Service

The American Forces Press Service (AFPS) is the news service provided by the Defense Media Activity (formerly the American Forces Information Service), part of the United States Department of Defense. It supplies news stories pertaining to the activities of the U.S. military around the world.[2] The New York Times has described it as the Pentagon’s "media branch"[3] or "internal news service".[4]

AFPS uses the Associated Press style.[5]

See also

References

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