The Military Channel
| American Heroes Channel | |
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| Launched | July 1998 |
| Owned by | Discovery Communications |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | The Home of the Brave |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Elizabeth, New Jersey |
| Formerly called | Discovery Wings (1998–2005) Military Channel (2005–14) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Discovery Channel TLC Animal Planet Science Investigation Discovery Destination America Discovery Family Discovery Life Velocity Discovery en Español Discovery Familia |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 287 (SD/HD) 1287 (VOD) |
| Dish Network | 195 (SD/HD) |
| C-Band | AMC 11 – Channel 611 (4DTV Digital) |
| C-Band | AMC 18-Channel 256 (H2H 4DTV) |
| Bell TV (Canada) | 631 (SD) |
| Shaw Direct (Canada) | 555 (SD) |
| Cable | |
| Verizon FiOS | 125 (SD) |
| Available on most other U.S. cable systems. | Consult your local cable provider for channel availability. |
| Vidéotron (Canada) | 158 (SD) |
| IPTV | |
| AT&T U-Verse | 1259 HIGH DEF 259 (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| DirecTV Now HIGH DEF | Internet Protocol television |
American Heroes Channel (AHC; formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Communications. The network carries programs related to the military, warfare, and military history and science.
As of February 2015, the channel is available to approximately 59,917,000 pay television households (51.5% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
The channel launched in July 1998, as Discovery Wings Channel; it originally focused on programs relating to aircraft and aerospace. During its early years, the network also aired a weather segment near the top of each hour featuring aviation forecast data from the National Weather Service. Discovery Communications filed a trademark application with the United States Copyright Office for the use of the name "Military Channel" in 2002, after the trademark was abandoned by an unrelated start-up cable network based in Louisville, Kentucky, also named The Military Channel, which went dark in 1999 and later went bankrupt. That network – which focused on the heroes, history and hardware of the international military scene – experienced difficulty raising capital, despite early success.
On January 10, 2005, the network was rebranded as the Military Channel. Carrying over from its original format, many of the network's programs as the Military Channel were dedicated to aerial warfare and related technologies and issues. In 2005, the channel aired its first live program from Philadelphia at the site of the Army–Navy college football game, two hours before that game's kickoff, in which Fox Sports commentator Chris Myers hosted from a set outside of Lincoln Financial Field.
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