Claim: The New York Times (an American daily newspaper based in New York City) has described DoD News Channel as the Pentagon's (headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense) "media branch" or "internal news service", thus it was shuttered during a 2018 internal realignment.
Evidence: 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. DoD News Channel Defense Media Activity April 17, 2015; 5 years ago (April 17, 2015) On July 8, 2014, The Pentagon Channel was rebranded as the DoD News Channel. The channel ceased operations on April 17, 2015. The New York Times has described it as the Pentagon's "media branch" or "internal news service". AFPS was shuttered in a 2015 internal realignment of the Defense Media Activity and its reporting was merged with that of other DMA DOD-level production activities into a new organization named DOD News. DOD News was in turn shuttered during a 2018 internal realignment.