Military History Channel

The Military History Channel had a soft launch on Sky EPG 531 today, displacing the Crime & Investigation Network to a new slot (553). Quite a nice ident.
Anyhoo, here are some caps and a video of the launch.

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/MH-1.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/MH-2.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/MH-3.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/MH-4.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/MH-5.jpg

http://vid273.photobucket.com/albums/jj219/StuartPlymouth/MilitaryHistoryLaunch.flv

The announcer says its stimulating, eh what planet are you on? It's history!

The historical channels (History, UKTV History and Discovery Civilisations) seem to be remarkably popular, although I'm not sure whether "Military History" is quite my cuppa tea: it's perhaps too bellicose for my taste as I am a confirmed coward

Horses for courses

Wonder if they got the got the idea from teh channel Alan Partidge worked for - UK Conquest?

I see that they have used the new US version of the History logo, rather than the current UK History Channel logo.

I guess we will soon see it on our screens on the History Channel

It looks like they took a 4:3 ident from the American Military History Channel and turned it into a widescreen ident by adding some stuff on the sides.

Note the logo resembles the us history channel (or just history as its now called) logo.

The announcer's voice sounds very familiar - any idea who it is?

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it's the legendary Redvers Kyle - one of the original ITV announcers from Associated Rediffusion, and later Yorkshire Television.

Well I'm not regrettng my choice to cancel that mix just yet anyway.

It's the marvellous David Allan, who's been doing the main History Channel for several years. Ex BBC TV of course, from "the good old days"