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The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland. AFN comprises two subordinate overseas commands and one directorate in the continental United States.
The network operates or has operated 24-hour program feeds carried part-time or full-time by its member stations, the PBS Satellite Service (which maintains feeds for the Eastern and Pacific Time Zones, and was originally conceived as a cable-only channel for areas not served by a PBS station), PBS YOU (devoted largely to adult education ...
See also; List of United States over-the-air television networks. East/West [2] [3] [4] If Yes, this channel offers time-shifted feeds of its network. HD [2] [3] [4] If Yes, this channel offers a High Definition feed. See also; High-definition television in the United States. VOD: If Yes this channel offers video on demand content to providers ...
The American Forces Network (AFN), provides U.S. radio and television news, information, and entertainment programming to active, guard, and reserve military service members, DoD civilians and contract employees, and their families overseas, on board Navy and Coast Guard ships, and to other authorized users.
Logo as Military Channel, used from January 10, 2005 to March 2, 2014. On January 10, 2005, the network was rebranded as the Military Channel. [2] 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.
DSCS II, developed under Program 777 [6] provided secure voice and data transmission for the United States Armed Forces. The program was managed by the Defense Communications Agency (DCA), now the Defense Information Systems Agency. The space vehicles were spin stabilized with a de-spun antenna platform.
U.S. Military Television Network is a planned specialty television channel distributed through satellite television and cable television companies.. It positions itself as "a new 24 hour cable television network designed to introduce America to the personnel and their families that make up the U.S. Military".
The United States Department of Defense's Global Broadcast Service general concept of operations, circa January 2010. Beginning in 1998, GBS began broadcasting via communication payloads on two Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) Ka-band augmented satellites and more recently all Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites (via Ka-band only).