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.

[1] DoD News Channel was free, in the public domain, and accessible 24/7 to all U.S. cable and satellite providers.

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.

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

AFPS, DOD News and Defense.gov reporting uses a modified version of Associated Press style.